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Wail Abu Baker Ashria

Co-Attorney Expert in Investment Law

Education:

● Bachelor of Law, Al-Neelain University, School of Law – 1996.

● High Diploma in General Law, Al- Neelain University, School of Law – 1997.

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Wail Ashria has worked with clients at all phases of the litigation process, from pre-suit investigations, filing of motions to dismiss complaints, taking and defending depositions, to trial itself, including taking direct and cross testimony. His clients have included leading multi-national corporations involved in the technology, embassies affairs, and Investment etc. He understands the importance of getting into the trenches with his clients and tenaciously fighting for them.

 

During his 24 years of experience in practising law generally and Investment law specifically, Wail worked as a legal attorney at the National Commercial Register of Sudan at the Ministry of Investment, where he managed to provide accurate, timely and effective legal advice to clients by conducting legal studies in order to map out the legal aspects for numerous of investors whose their sake to invest in Sudan. Advising colleagues on all legal matters, suggesting courses of action, and shaping clients’ expectations on what can be realistically achieved.

 

Wail is an honours graduate from University of Al-Neelain, School of Law. He earned a High Diploma in Public Law from Al-Neelain University also. And he has been licensed by the Law Bar Association to practice law in Sudan since 1997.

Fathelrahman Ahmed

Co-Attorney Expert in Arbitration Law

Education:

● Bachelor of Law, University of Khartoum, School of Law.

● Professional Diploma of Translation and Interpreting,

    American University of Sharjah.

● Certified Arbitrator – UAQ, CC, AC, UAE.

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Fathelrahman now uses his years of arbitration and investigative experience to defend clients in complex, high-stakes white-collar criminal cases. He combines a meticulous approach to investigating the facts with a deep knowledge of criminal and administrative procedure to vigorously protect his clients’ futures and reputations. Beside his experience in Arbitration in more than 20 years, combined with his existing skills in team management and dedication to reach the highest standards of professionalism he managed to become the legal advisor for International corporations, and foreign federal governmental organisations.

Prior to Joining JALCA, Fathelrhman worked in a foriegn corporations abroad where he was appointed as the legal advisor of the National Emirates Transport in Dubai, UAE. And then moved to another state where he was promoted the legal consultant at the Sharjah Roads & Transport Authority, Head Office (Government of Sharjah), where he handled Arbitrations, the issuance & Review of all Court Memorandums, Plaints, and applications at all stages of Litigation.

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Najla Mohammed Shukri

Co-Attorney Expert in Intellectual Property Law

Education:

● Bachelor of Law with Honours Degree, University of Khartoum, School of        Law – 1999.

● Master of General Law, University of Khartoum, School of Law – 2004. 

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Najla grew an interest in the Intellectual Property field of Law since she was a law student at the University of Khartoum, and she earned her Master degree by presenting her graduation research in one of the Intellectual Property field under the title of “Licensing to use the Trademark”.

 

Prior to joining JALCA, Najla worked in the legislative department of the Sudanese Centre for Intellectual Property Studies, where she managed to prepare research and legal counselling in the field of intellectual property, besides her interest in lecturing in training courses, workshops and specialised forums in the field of intellectual property. Due to her tremendous experience for more than 10 years in Intellectual Property Law, she was appointed as the Director of the Legislative Department in the largest and the leading Intellectual Property Firm in the Middle East region, and currently she became an accredited agent for Commercial Trademarks.

 

Outside of her work, Najla always kept learning more in her field of expertise in Intellectual Property, she attended many workshops presented by the World Intellectual Property Organization regarding Interregional Intermediate Intellectual Property, CopyRights and related rights and she gained international certificates from Geneva, Switzerland, and Helsiniki, Finland.

Omer Awadalla A. Geaad

Education:

● Bachelor of Law, Al-Neelain University, School of Law.

● Higher Diploma in Federalism, University of Fribourg, 

   Institute of Federalism – Switzerland.

● PhD in Law, University of Fribourg, 

    School of Law – Switzerland (MAGNA CUM LAUDE).

● Enrolled for the second PhD, University of Geneva, School of Law –                      Switzerland (Not yet obtained).

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Omer is the founder and the Managing partner at JALCA. He used his years of experience in practising law combined with believing in providing legal affairs as services that should be performed and provided in the highest standard and more relevance to an international level. That made him to lunch JALCA as a promising legal firm to become the brightest face of the legal services in the Middle East region and on the top when it comes to a national level in Sudan, taking the advantage of attorney and co-attorneys that their years of experience in practising law, are not less than 20 years in a specialising field of law to ensure the best legal consultations given to the clients.

 

In the international sphere Omer started his career in Switzerland as a collaborator researcher in the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg – Switzerland where he published many papers in regards to federalism in Sudan, e.g. Federalism as Conflict Management Device for Multiethnic and Multicultural Societies - The Case of Sudan, Publications de l'Institut du fédéralisme Fribourg (PIFF) Suisse, book No 46.

 

Omer climbed the ladder of the legal governmental positions where he was Sudan’s Legal Advisor at the Ministry of Justice where he acted as a prosecuting attorney, and due to his 10 years of experience in practising law in the Ministry, he was promoted to run the legal affairs of the National Council for Training at the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, when he was appointed as the Secretary General.

 

Omer took the advantage of his experience in law and his interest in Federalism, he launched a training centre named as the “Federalism Research & Capacity Building Centre”, where he runned the Centre as a Senior Consultant and managed to provide consultations and trainings as well in Public & Constitutional Law, Administrative & Labour Law Commercial Law, Contracts Federalism, Conflict Resolution Mechanisms, Intergovernmental relations, Human Rights for more than 10 years.

Nagwa Abdelazeem Elnour

Co-Attorney Expert in Corporate Law

Education:

● Bachelor in Law, Cairo University, Khartoum Branch, School of Law – 1979.

● High Diploma in International Law, University of Khartoum,

   School of Law – 2007.

● Master of L.L.B in Law (Constitutional Law), Alzaiem Alazhari University, School of Law – 2009.

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Nagwa is a sociable person and able to deal with adverse situations. She has strong analytical skills, and excellent communication skills, and she took the advantage of these skills collectively in her both personal and professional life.

 

Prior to joining JALCA, Nagwa had the chance to be the legal advisor of Sudan Airways Company Ltd. where she managed to prepare and follow-up contracts and agreements preparing for transportation of goods, passengers, planes renting and purchasing. Not to mention that In the early 1990s, Nagwa run many governmental positions where she was the legal advisor of the Ministry of Health, and afterwards she moved to the Ministry of Justice where she was appointed as the Executive Director to the office of the Minister of Justice & the Attorney General, where she managed to prepare legal studies and following up on the execution of legal judgement issued in different institutions and submit them to the attorney general as a principal advisor to the government.

 

And due to her tremendous experience in Corporate Law for more than 25 years in running the legal affairs of national telecommunication corporation in Sudan, she was appointed as the Director of the Department at SUDATEL.

Nagwa has been practising law for over 40 years for now, since she was licensed by the Law Bar Association to practice law in Sudan since the 1980s.

Yousof Altyeb

Education:

● Bachelor of Law, University of Khartoum, School of Law – 2015.

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JALCA believes in the empowerment of youth especially in its field of interest which is Law, and wants to harness the efforts and motivations of the freshest best national law schools in Sudan from University of Khartoum, and to give them the proper mindset and improve their legal aspect’ skills and competency. Therefore, Yousof joined us as one of the best candidates, and in a quite a short time, he proved his value tremendously and became an asset that JALCA relies on.

 

Yousof prior joining JALCA, worked as a corporate lawyer for a private company, where he managed to advise corporations concerning legal rights, obligations and privileges, and acted many times as an agent of the corporation he worked for in various transactions to ensure the legal aspects consistency.

 

Yousof graduated with an honours degree from the 1o School of Law in Sudan, at the University of Khartoum.

Our Attorneys

In JALCA we invest in people, and the quality of our firm is based on the quality of our people. We hire lawyers with a solid academic background, yet other qualities are just as important: intellectual curiosity, diverse backgrounds, and the imagination to deal with new legal issues. Our people share the ambition to deliver the highest quality service and the wish to work within a community of people who respect and co-operate with each other.

In our team, we have lawyers holding MSc & PhD from Law Schools in Switzerland and Sudan, and as a team we collectively possess experiences in practicing law for more than 10 years in various fields of Law.

Not to mention what makes us unique from others, is taking the advantage of our staff’s abilities, makes us capable of providing legal services in 3 different international languages: (Arabic, English, and French).