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Dar Al Muhama has been one of the most famous law firms in Kuwait which was founded in 2005. The founders are law experts and among the best lawyers in Kuwait who have contributed to creating the law firm.

Dar Al Muhama has a foreign department led by a group of legal consultants who are highly professional and who are in cooperation with national law firms in different law fields. It provides services to all clients in different fields of law such as banking and corporate, oil and gas, intellectual property, marine lawsuits, maritime arbitration, air lawsuits, air arbitration, civil suits and compensations, litigation lawsuits, administrative cases, family courts, labor lawsuits, rentals and real estate, arbitration and intermediation services, and execution section.

Direct negotiation: Dar Al Muhama always provides direct negotiation through contacting parties of disputes and negotiating the whole problem so that they can settle the dispute while relying on legal and administrative consultancy.

Banking and corporate:

• Banks and companies services
  • Providing arbitration services, legal consultations, advice and instructions in all legal issues related to the company.
  • Preparing conventions, commercial, investment and labor contracts.
  • Representing companies and banks in official authorities courts, all ministries and the capital markets and defend them in all cases filed against them by individuals, establishments or companies.

• Services for establishing and restructuring companies
  • Providing everything related to establishing companies, making and formulating the legal entity, and making licenses and establishing contracts.
  • Formulating all foundation contracts for companies and its basic roles.
  • Restructuring companies legally and taking necessary procedures.
  • Registration of trademarks, industrial models and patents.

Intellectual property: Services related to intellectual property:

• Providing special consultations for trademarks, patents, copyrights, and industrial models.
• Take charge of disputes that can be caused by infringement.
• Making specific notifications for registering trademarks.

Oil and gas: Providing legal consultations and litigation services about different legal issues, preparing and reviewing exploration and development contracts, financing contracts, oil investments and petroleum operations contracts.

Marine lawsuits: Providing legal consultations and litigation services about all air and sea transportation and offering legal consultations, preparing contracts for purchase, sale and lease of aircraft, ships, and air and sea operations.

Maritime arbitration: Dar Al Muhama has an excellent expertise in the field of maritime arbitration as it has accredited international experts specialized in maritime arbitration in order to solve regional, local and international disputes.

Air lawsuits: Providing legal advice, preparing contracts to buy, sell and lease airplanes, issuing claims resulting from accidents or damages brought by individuals, institutions or companies related to the dispute.

Air arbitration: Dar Al Muhama has an expertise in air arbitration owing to its law experts accredited to settle local, regional and international disputes.

Civil suits and compensations:

• Providing legal advice related to all types of compensation and civil claims whether for individuals or companies.
• Claims and clearing.
• Compensations for work and road accidents, and claims for self-assault and money.
• Grievance claims.

Litigation lawsuits:

• Providing legal advice for crimes whether related to self, money or reputation such as murder, stealing, insult, swindle, addiction, electronic crimes etc.
• Attending investigations before the prosecution and police stations.
• Submitting complaints and criminal reports.
• Following up on complaints and reports in the Public Prosecution Office, the General Department and police stations.
• Pleading and providing defense for all kinds of felonies.
• Pleading and defending all types of misdemeanors.

Administrative cases:

• Providing legal advice to all types of administrative lawsuits such as cancellation lawsuits, compensation lawsuit, filling dates and grievances.
• Litigating against all ministries and state institutions whether to prove rights, recover or compensate them.

Family courts:

• Providing legal advice for all types of family courts.
• Spousal and child support lawsuits.
• Cases of proof of custody and its cancellation.
• Marital dwelling rental lawsuits and their increase.
• Driver’s fare lawsuits, saving a car for the children, and furnishing a house.
• State and guardianship claims.
• Common money division lawsuits among the heirs.
• Lawsuits for tuition and medical expenses.
• Cases of cancellation of marriage contract and divorce.
• Filial vision suits.
• Marital obedience claims and proof of disobedience.
• Inheritance claims.
• Claims to prove or deny lineage.
• Claims for changing or adjusting names.
• Cases of proof of marriage or divorce.

Labor lawsuits:

• Providing legal advice.
• Claiming all labor dues.
• Asking for residency cancellation and transfer.
• Demanding submitting passport.
• Submitting requests to the Ministry of Labor and Affairs.

Rentals and real estate:

• Providing legal advice.
• Rental lawsuits.
• Transfer of ownership.
• Collecting rents.
• Rent contracts between the owner and the tenant.
• Evacuation claims and warnings.
• Ownership claims.
• Everything related between the owner and the tenant.

Arbitration and intermediation services:

• Providing legal advice.
• Providing arbitration and intermediation services including reviewing requests for arbitration, initiating its procedures, and implementing arbitration.

Execution section:

• Dar Al Muhama has an excellent executive administration which handles temporary and substantive execution disputes and takes all measures to implement judgments and follow up requests issued by bills of exchange, checks, receipts for trust, personal status expenditures and late rents by taking measures against the debtor including: travel ban, seizure and summons, cars seizure, bank seizure, salary seizure etc.
• The executive section includes also a specialized administration to announce judicial rulings and another administration specialized in execution of judicial rulings.

Foreign department: Dar Al Muhama has a foreign department led by a professional team who has international cooperation with other law firms in different fields whether in countries of Europe, Asia, South Africa, or the Gulf. This helps our law firm to address foreign lawsuits, international arbitration cases whether its parties are individuals or companies. Dar Al Muhama provides also legal advice and legal research in both languages Arabic and English as it provides drafting and reviewing all commercial agreements in all sectors such as commerce and investment, gas and oil sector, real estate etc.

Dar Al Muhama has another team whose main mission is to prepare legal advice, draft contracts, write defense notes, and implement foreign rulings.

Collection department

• • Friendly collection: Through it, unpaid debts are collected and reassessed, and a report is submitted to the customer that includes the mechanism followed and what can be actually collected after studying the debt and updating customer data while taking into consideration the customer’s policy towards the opponents with debt.

• • Judicial collection: Through which the judgment is studied and its timing is evaluated in order to execute it and arrange its sum after updating the necessary data of customers.

Means of collection

• • Program of following and information: This program helps receive the files, arrange its data, classify customers, and divide data between client service agents. It also helps open special files, print inquiries for civil information, print mail notifications and orders of performance, send postal missions, make copies of all document, search on the Ministry of Justice website to find out the client’s status, prepare performance order files for submission, and prepare reports for companies and offices.

• • Program of customer support: This program offers our clients, small businesses and big companies, to permanently keep them updated about their cases.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mr Abdulrahman Alhouti	Managing Partner – Director	View Profile

Interviews

Abdulrahman Alhouti: Managing Partner

First Question: Major professional and personal achievements

Answer: The professional and personal achievements that have been accomplished are numerous, including but not limited to, the establishment of a law firm under the name of Dar Al-Muhama. It is one of the leading offices in the legal field and providing law works of various types and names, within the State of Kuwait. The activity of my special law firm was not limited to the State of Kuwait only, but extended dealings with it in many countries in the Middle East, within a short term of time. This was conducted based on study and deep planning. This planning included several axes, the most important of which is the constitution of a professional team that includes elites of the most qualified legal advisors within the State of Kuwait, as well as maintaining the clients of the law firm, meet all the client requirements and work on sustainability of the client’s presence in the law firm for a term of more than ten years.

 

Second Question: What is the action that you do differently from your peers in this field?

Answer: Constitution of a professional legal team with great legal experience, each of them having a specialization, in order to provide legal advice correctly to the client, to communicate with the client on an ongoing basis, and most importantly, credibility and transparency with the client, to follow it continuously and regularly and to introduce all modern means of communication in my law firm; in order to provide the service correctly and cope with the great technological development. This added to the clients of the law firm the latest means that enable them to follow up on their work remotely without coming to the law firm, whereby they can view his legal work without requiring their presence in the law firm, this enables them to view the defense and the documents of their lawsuits and their progress remotely, without any trouble, not charging them any sums of money and preserving their time.

Third Question: What advice would you give to your younger self?

Answer: Set goals, work on planning for the future, adapt plans that keep up with developments and create multiple plans to past avoid mistakes. Be honest with yourself and others, engage in extensive reading and acquire knowledge to achieve success. It is important to face challenges and overcome them. The most important of all is to understand that achieving success is not the decisive factor because achieving success is easier than attaining it.

Fourth Question: Could you provide me with a practical example of how to assist the client in adding value to the work?

Answer: Put the defense plan entirely under the eyes and supervision of the client and enable the client to defend in a lawsuit whether by the attorney or his adversary. Also taking the client’s opinion in the defense plan to reach the suitable way in preserving the client’s rights.
Fifth Question: What do you think would be the major challenge for clients in the upcoming 12 months inside your sector?
Answer: Keep up with the outstanding technological progress, as well as work on the preservation and continuity of the client within the firm, especially in the light of the increasing demand by the law firms inside the State of Kuwait that exceeded the number of four thousand firms and shortage of supply in the market and working on preserving the great reputation of the firm and its continuity in pioneering its works.