Globalization and technological advancement have opened new markets for everything from pop music to prescription drugs. Along with great benefits, these changes have ushered in new challenges as well. Namely, it is less difficult and more profitable for unscrupulous actors to infringe on privately held intellectual property rights.
Near-perfect reproductions of protected works can be made quickly and cheaply, and disseminated instantly to markets worldwide. Officials estimate that counterfeit goods now make up 5 to 7 percent of trade worldwide. Companies that expect to reap the rewards of exclusive ownership must be prepared to aggressively protect their trademarks and copyrights.
Through its extensive network of practitioners, lawyers of the PraeLegal Afghanistan Trademarks&amp;Copyrights group represents a wide range of companies, from small start-ups to multinational blue chips, that operate in diverse industry sectors.
Our professionals enjoy close working relationships with Customs and Border Protection officers around the world. Through these ties, we are able to facilitate prompt seizure of counterfeit materials, a notably effective and inexpensive solution for our clients.
<h3>A Full-Service Trademark Law Practice</h3>
Our practice involves the full spectrum of legal services related to trademarks:
<ul>
<li>Assistance with the selection and availability of marks</li>
<li>Prosecution of applications in an effort to obtain federal and local registrations</li>
<li>Appeals from the local Trademark Offices</li>
<li>Risk management advice</li>
<li>Negotiation and preparation of trademark licenses</li>
<li>Co-existence and consent agreements</li>
<li>Monitoring of trademark use by third parties</li>
<li>Advice on the proper use of trademarks in advertising and on packaging</li>
<li>Litigation and other proceedings involving trademarks</li>
<li>Matters involving international protection</li>
</ul>

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PraeLegal Afghanistan Network has an international technology legal group representing information technology, electronic commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and other technology-intensive companies on cutting-edge legal issues. We bring to bear critical technology, regulatory, corporate, and litigation experience with tax, anti-trust, and other capabilities, to ensure efficient, cost-effective representation.
The exponential growth in e-commerce has revolutionized the way businesses buy, sell, operate, and communicate. And while the digitization of commerce has boosted efficiency and profitability, it has also raised the specter of new and serious online risks. Businesses must have a clear legal strategy in order to prevent and react to cyber-piracy, cybersquatting, data breaches, Internet fraud, online copyright infringement, and online trademark theft. Addressing these and other e-commerce concerns is complicated by the fact that e-commerce law is still clearly evolving. Clients need counsel who are deeply knowledgeable about intellectual property law and continually track changes in the e-commerce field. Through the PraeLegal Afghanistan network, clients have access to lawyers from all around the world, with expertise in a diverse range of e-commerce, privacy, technology and outsourcing solutions.
PraeLegal Afghanistan respected intellectual property group represents a wide range of corporate clients in e-commerce matters. We have experience working with clients from diverse industries. Prae Legal’ can provide clients the best possible advice and support, wherever they do business, around the globe.
The expertise of the Prae Legal’s E-Commerce &amp; Technology group’s attorneys support clients facing challenges such as:
<ul>
<li>Draft terms of use or service</li>
<li>legal disclaimers</li>
<li>privacy policies</li>
<li>sale or license agreements</li>
<li>IS and IT</li>
<li>Cross-border transfers</li>
<li>Data privacy and security</li>
<li>E-Commerce</li>
<li>protect web-related copyright</li>
<li>trademark</li>
<li>trade dress</li>
<li>software source code</li>
<li>Electronic signatures</li>
<li>Business social networking</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond issues, attorneys in the E-commerce &amp; Technology group are able to connect you to additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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E-COMMERCE & TECHNOLOGY

In today’s global economy, nearly all business operations have an international component either with respect to development, financing, supply, manufacturing, design, or sales. Therefore, competitive companies must have a law firm with international capabilities.
Through the PraeLegal Afghanistan Network, our clients have access to lawyers from all around the world, with expertise in a diverse range of cross-border transactions. PraeLegal Afghanistan has led high-level international engagements for decades and have a demonstrated track record of success in the global arena.
Our cross-border group comprises lawyers with vast expertise in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>Corporate Securities.</li>
<li>International Trade &amp; Customs</li>
<li>Debt financing, equity financing, mezzanine financing</li>
<li>Immigration</li>
<li>Joint ventures and alliances</li>
<li>Government Relations</li>
<li>Project and corporate finance</li>
<li>Litigation</li>
<li>Mergers and acquisitions</li>
<li>Intellectual Property</li>
<li>Institutional funds and financial services</li>
<li>Insurance</li>
<li>Capital markets (debt and equity)</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your legal needs move beyond cross-border transactional issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from local experts in other areas of law and business.

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The unique perils of products liability laws and regulations are well known to companies involved with the manufacture or sale of commercial goods. Unlike other torts, when it comes to products liability, the evidentiary burden for plaintiffs is relatively low and the exposure for defendants can be extraordinarily high. Even the most vigilant, safety-conscious companies must be prepared to respond to serious products liability claims.
In this era of globalized trade and extensive cooperation and communication among plaintiffs’ firms, companies should expect the frequency of products liability filings, particularly multi-jurisdictional class claims, to increase.
PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals provide clients with:
<ul>
<li>Counseling on product liability containment and lawsuit avoidance;</li>
<li>Litigation and trial representation;</li>
<li>Global, national and regional claims coordination;</li>
<li>Representation before government agencies;</li>
<li>Advise clients regarding underlying potential liabilities and exposure to particular loss claims, and review contracts, warning labels, and sale or distribution protocols</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs go beyond product liability and product safety matters, attorneys in the group are able to ensure you receive the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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The product liability and toxic tort litigators group is a successful group of attorneys with an exceptional depth of experience in today’s litigious environment. Skilled in product defense, MLA delivers prompt and vigorous representation when product liability and warranty lawsuits attack the integrity and reputation of a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer.
Our professionals have substantial experience in quickly and successfully defending manufacturers and sellers through negotiation, arbitration, or trial. To control the cost of litigation and maximize the predictability of the outcome, we believe in early case evaluation and therefore utilize standardized procedures to streamline case management as well as experienced paralegals.
Focusing on minimizing a firm’s risk of exposure to legal action, our law firms have handled cases in both federal and local courts nationwide, as well as in a number of industries. Our clients include both manufacturers and distributors of diverse products such as:
<ul>
<li>agricultural chemicals</li>
<li>asbestos and asbestos containing products</li>
<li>automobiles and seat belts</li>
<li>cellular phones</li>
<li>consumer goods</li>
<li>drugs and medical devices</li>
<li>electrical equipment</li>
<li>firearms</li>
<li>formaldehyde</li>
<li>industrial equipment</li>
<li>machinery and manufacturing equipment</li>
<li>medical devices</li>
<li>military and aerospace products</li>
<li>organic/halogenated solvents</li>
<li>pesticides</li>
<li>petroleum-based products</li>
<li>pneumatic and hand tools</li>
</ul>
Our environmental tort work includes the defense of cases involving a wide variety of industrial and agricultural chemicals as well as radioactive materials released to groundwater, indoor air, outdoor air, soil, and surface water. Also noteworthy is the fact that MLA expertly handles mold litigation.
MLA’s work includes personal injury and property damage litigation, in addition to counseling and training. We work closely with clients to develop effective mechanisms to avoiding lawsuits when developing or marketing a new product or when they have an environmental release or incident. We have solid experience in defense of actions involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants, and our lawyers are often called upon to act as national coordinating counsel. Prae Legal’s experts are also successful in defeating class certification.
Our clients benefit from the fact that our product liability and toxic tort practitioners combine their experience in complex civil litigation with the firm’s experience in the technical and medical issues that often form the battleground for these cases.
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond Toxic Tort and Product Liability issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need fromPrae Legal.

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Toxic-Torts

We work with clients to define and create opportunities, and transform their businesses to excel in a rapidly changing world. We serve mobile and integrated operators, digital media companies and networking and equipment firms in both mature and emerging markets.
Lawyers of the PraeLegal Afghanistan Telecommunications group have an intimate understanding of their client’s needs and what it will take to protect their assets and build success.
Through its extensive network of practitioners, professionals of PraeLegal Afghanistan Telecommunications group can assist in relation to indefeasible right to use and building access agreements, shared resource contracts, vendor financing and other finance agreements. Working in a collaborative effort with the other practice groups to provide proven solutions to our telecommunications clients, it will involve licensing requirements with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, and other trade related matters as well as a full suite of corporate advice, such as handling the regulatory issues involved in a merger or acquisition, as well as a sale and purchase of a telecommunications service provider.
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond telecommunications issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Experts in the Prae LegalTechnology Transactions &amp; Licensing practice group assist a wide range of clients with maximizing company value from the intellectual property and technology assets that they own or license from third parties.
Attorneys in the group have experience with clients in many industries, such as biotechnology andpharmaceuticals; medical devices; diagnostics; life sciences; healthcare; information technologies, including hardware and software; Internet and e-commerce; telecommunications; video games;entertainment; retail; and financial services. Attorneys in the group work with companies of all sizes at all stages of development, including emerging growth companies, middle-market companies and established vendors of technology goods and services, to partner or sell their IP and technology assets. They also assist clients to in-license or otherwise acquire IP and technology assets, as well as to establish technology service arrangements.
Attorneys in the Technology Transactions &amp; Licensing practice group counsel clients on structuring, negotiating and implementing collaborative and licensing transactions that often have a significant impact on a company’s business. With their extensive experience in these types of transactions and knowledge of both sides of contract issues, our attorneys assist clients on establishing the core IP and business terms and structure of the deal. They also act as problem solvers for complex and difficult contract issues. Clients value the ability of the attorneys in the group to manage the deal negotiation process in an effort to maximize speed-to-signing while minimizing legal expenses.
<ul>
<li>Prea Legal Technology Transaction &amp; Licensing practice group attorneys frequently help clients with regard to:</li>
<li>Joint ventures and strategic alliances</li>
<li>Collaboration and co-development agreements</li>
<li>In-bound and out-bound patent and technology licenses</li>
<li>Third-party arrangements with employees and consultants</li>
<li>Manufacturing and supply agreements</li>
<li>Distribution and reseller arrangements</li>
<li>Branding and marketing arrangements</li>
<li>Business process outsourcing arrangements</li>
<li>Nondisclosure agreements</li>
</ul>
Attorneys in the group work closely with attorneys in the firm from other practice areas, which are often relevant for technology transactions, such as FDA; antitrust; bankruptcy; export control; government contracting; revenue recognition rules; security interests; and complex, multi-jurisdictional issues relating to privacy and security of information.
In conjunction with deal structuring, attorneys in the group also assist clients with IP due diligence, and their strategic planning and/or open innovation strategies, including assessing and identifying the client’s existing intellectual property; advising on protecting this intellectual property and counseling on areas of growth and the potential for licensing; and acquiring and selling intellectual property in order to realize maximum value for the business. For software matters, attorneys in the group advise on open source issues.
Attorneys in the group also assist clients with IP management and audits, including software audits.

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TECHNOLOGY, OUTSOURCING AND PRIVACY

State and local governments across the country face massive deficits, and many are looking for additional taxes to improve their budgets. Most are aggressively trying to collect more taxes from existing taxpayers, identify new taxpayers and impose new business taxes as well.
Paying excessive taxes reduces profitability and puts a business at a serious competitive disadvantage, especially when it already is squeezed by price pressures and growing competition. Multistate businesses must also cope with multiple tax systems – often arcane, complex and inconsistent  that create serious compliance challenges as well as adverse financial consequences. However, by working effectively with those tax laws, a business can achieve substantial tax savings that flow to the bottom line and boost its financial position.
The Prae Legal’s tax group network allows our clients to receive multi-jurisdictional advice on how to take advantage of the major tax benefits available to their businesses and cross-border transactions. The network permits a continuous interchange of experiences, advice on changes to tax legislation, case law and areas of opportunity.
We provide a full range of services, including:
<ul>
<li>Tax planning to minimize state/local tax costs of regular business operations and major transactions;</li>
<li>Tax refunds;</li>
<li>Tax rulings;</li>
<li>Audit guidance;</li>
<li>Appeals of assessments;</li>
<li>Advise on multistate and constitutional tax issues;</li>
<li>Guidance on all state and local taxes, including sales tax, use tax, income tax, gross receipts tax, property tax, utility tax, real estate excise tax, leasehold excise tax and other business taxes.</li>
<li>Resolving Tax Issues Without Litigation</li>
<li>Counseling on indirect taxation</li>
<li>Advising on governmental relationships</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond tax issues, attorneys in the tax group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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In today’s complex world, challenges and opportunities in the real estate industry span borders and markets. We take the long term view of the real estate cycle, staying attuned to where the market is and monitoring trends to help our clients anticipate change.
In real estate, deal norms change from month to month, depending on the economic climate and marketplace. Because the real estate team group at PraeLegal Afghanistan Network are regularly involved in some of the nation’s largest transactions, we are fully aware of the latest trends in deal structure, regulation, profitability, leverage, and liability protections. Knowing “what’s market” allows us to calibrate our advice to maximize clients’ advantage under any circumstances.
Prae Legal’s Real Estate group provides clients with comprehensive services encompassing the full range of commercial real estate and development issues, including;
<ul>
<li>Acquisitions and Dispositions</li>
<li>Construction and Development</li>
<li>Financing</li>
<li>Leasing/Subleasing</li>
<li>Real Estate Fund Formation</li>
<li>Joint ventures</li>
<li>Sale and purchase agreements,</li>
<li>Negotiations</li>
<li>Foreclosure</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond real estate issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Our legal strategies and advice prioritize avoiding legal challenges and litigation. We provide strategic advice and representation needed to achieve timely and cost-effective regulatory compliance. We also help project sponsors build relationships that will minimize the cost and risk of future litigation.
Our professionals’ extensive experiences give developers practical advice and strategies to keep within budgets and schedules, and we identify future risks at early stages. If projects are challenged, we provide the strongest possible advocacy and litigation defense. We have a track record of successfully defending major development projects in federal, state and local courts and before administrative tribunals.
Our Global Projects Group has been instrumental in the design of many of the sophisticated structures used in project finance worldwide. We provide comprehensive services for all aspects of projects including:
<ul>
<li>Development and construction</li>
<li>Project finance</li>
<li>Mergers and acquisitions</li>
<li>Bankruptcy and restructuring</li>
<li>Capital markets</li>
<li>Leasing and securitization</li>
<li>Litigation and arbitration</li>
<li>Regulatory</li>
<li>Environmental and land use</li>
<li>Tax</li>
</ul>
By combining their expertise and creativity, attorneys of the Project Finance group work together to provide seamless international solutions for clients.
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond project finance, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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The private equity industry remains a key driver of global investment activities. Prae Legal’s Private Equity Group helps clients take advantage of opportunities in almost any market and any industry. Our private equity group lawyers work together as teams. We strive to deliver exceptionally high value through coordinated and concentrated experience, with a keen focus on our clients’ domestic or international business objectives.
PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals cover the entire range of private equity matters, including:
<ul>
<li>Fund formation and fund raising</li>
<li>Regulatory compliance</li>
<li>Investment activity and portfolio company management</li>
<li>Exits (including trade sale and capital markets transactions)</li>
<li>PraeLegal Afghanistan capabilities also provide coordinated assistance on other legal issues related to private equity matters, including:</li>
<li>Capital markets and securities regulation</li>
<li>ERISA/employment</li>
<li>Intellectual property</li>
<li>Real estate</li>
<li>Restructuring and corporate finance</li>
<li>Structured Finance</li>
<li>Litigation and dispute resolution</li>
<li>Tax</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond Private Equity issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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PRIVATE EQUITY

Mergers and acquisitions are often among the most complicated deals in the business world. They involve large dollar amounts and are by definition course-changing events for the entities involved. The transfer of corporate control has implications for owners, employees, communities, customers, and lenders, and raises a host of issues related to brand identity, leadership, fiduciary duty, operations, market position, and valuation.
Each of these divergent interests and concerns must be harmonized to reach a point of common agreement. In mergers and acquisitions, it is all about getting the deal done. Through PraeLegal Afghanistan network of Merger and Acquisitions practitioners, thePraeLegal Afghanistan group provides clients with a high quality and cost effective way to ensure legal compliance.
Attorneys of the Mergers and Acquisitions group handle a variety of transactions:
<ul>
<li>Represent clients in asset and stock sales and purchases</li>
<li>Public/private mergers</li>
<li>Conduct mergers and consolidations</li>
<li>Negotiate cross-border transactions</li>
<li>Execute spin-offs and roll-ups</li>
<li>Participate in auction transactions, as a seller or bidder</li>
<li>Negotiate joint ventures</li>
<li>Effectuate recapitalizations</li>
<li>Navigate transaction-related and industry-specific regulatory requirements</li>
<li>Asset and stock acquisitions</li>
<li>Going private deals</li>
</ul>
The practice group includes attorneys who have been conducting major business transactions for decades. Our mergers and acquisitions attorneys have  corporate law experience that comes from having worked in the corporate world.
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond mergers and acquisitions issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

PraeLegal Afghanistan Sports &amp; Entertainment Law Practice Group understands the challenges and legal needs facing professionals in the sports, entertainment, and recreational arena. We provide 360° representation ranging from business formation and protection of intellectual property rights to contract negotiation, litigation, and estate planning to a broad range of clients.
<h3>Entertainment</h3>
Within the entertainment industry, the PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals have considerable experience:
<ul>
<li>Negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements, including sponsorship, content licensing, film and television production, distribution, recording, music publishing, rights of publicity, live performance, talent agreements, personal management, talent and screenplay option and purchase agreements;</li>
<li>Counseling clients regarding the structuring of partnerships, joint ventures and co-productions, entertainment venue leases and licenses, union and guild agreement compliance, child talent contracts, rights acquisitions and related due diligence and rights clearances for entertainment properties (motion pictures, television programs, video games, software, books, music and websites); and</li>
<li>Counseling clients involved in the provision of entertainment content via emerging digital media technologies, such as online retailers of digital music, motion pictures, videogames and other audiovisual content.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sports</h3>
In the field of sports, the PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals have substantial experience:
<ul>
<li>Assisting and advising professional sports organizations with the securing of financing, corporate structuring, tax, regulatory compliance, intellectual property and labor and employment law matters;</li>
<li>Negotiating and drafting tournament and player agreements and personal management agreements;</li>
<li>Assisting athletes and sports organizations in protecting, enforcing and monetizing their intellectual property and publicity rights, developing and expanding their brand identities, and negotiating and drafting of employment, personal services, endorsement, sponsorship and licensing agreements; and</li>
<li>Assisting clients in the litigation of disputes involving trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, trade dress, defamation and contracts, among other relevant areas of law, in state and federal courts in the U.S., in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and abroad.</li>
<li>Our attorneys also work in conjunction with attorneys from other practice groups to provide a full array of related legal services to our sports and entertainment clients including, for example, assisting clients with securing financing and investors, securities regulations, tax and estate planning, protection and management of assets, and litigation of issues including rights of privacy, rights of publicity, defamation and first amendment free speech rights.</li>
</ul>
Our Entertainment and Sports Group is dedicated to providing uniquely tailored and practical counseling that permits the client to maximize the value of their particular ideas, talents and skills. If you would like further information about the Entertainment and Sports Group and how we can better assist you, please contact Prae Legal.

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Professionals of the Litigation Practice Group have handled literally thousands of cases to successful conclusion, and they have significant trial experience at all levels every court systems. In addition to aggressive trial and motion practices, Prae Legal’sprofessionals utilize alternative dispute resolution as a means of achieving the right result for the clients in an efficient and cost effective manner.
Through the PraeLegal Afghanistan Network, clients have access to lawyers from all around the world, with expertise in a diverse range of dispute resolution solutions.
The trial skills of our attorneys were developed through direct experience. Excellent trial lawyers know the language and rhythm of the courtroom. They know when to press and when to hold back. They know how to assimilate new information and recalibrate strategy as events unfold. These critical intangibles are our stock in trade. Our professionals can provide clients the best possible advice and support, wherever they do business, around the globe.
Scope of our litigation practice;
<ul>
<li>Antitrust</li>
<li>Intellectual Property</li>
<li>Government Investigations &amp; Criminal Defense</li>
<li>Bankruptcy</li>
<li>Securities &amp; Corporate</li>
<li>Products Liability</li>
<li>Professional Liability</li>
<li>Transportation &amp; Logistics</li>
<li>Commercial litigation</li>
<li>Construction litigation</li>
<li>Environmental litigation</li>
<li>Shipping/maritime litigation</li>
<li>Trade litigation</li>
<li>Labor and employment litigation</li>
<li>Securities enforcement and litigation</li>
<li>Product liability and product recalls</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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LITIGATION, ARBITRATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Life sciences is a highly dynamic and global industry. That’s why life sciences companies, as well as investors and other capital providers to the life sciences industry, need to work with a law firm that understands these challenges and that can provide consistent, practical solutions to meet these challenges.
PraeLegal Afghanistan has a network of life sciences law practitioners in all around the world. Our lawyers provide easy access to high-quality, focused legal advice and assistance needed to avoid matters from the very outset and solve problems when they happen later on. 
Scope of our life sciences practice; 
Our experience includes counseling foodstuffs, including food supplements, enriched food, novel food, parnuts, biotechnology, cosmetics, Biocides, detergents, pesticides and other chemical preparations, pharmaceutical, medical technology, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions investing in this sector:
<ul>
<li>Anti-corruption, Compliance and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act</li>
<li>Commercial Transactions</li>
<li>Mergers and Acquisitions</li>
<li>Employment Law</li>
<li>Securities and Capital Markets</li>
<li>Private Equity</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond life sciences issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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In today’s global economy, businesses must pay extremely close attention to protecting their intellectual property. Because IP lies at the heart of every product or service brought to market, it constitutes a corporation’s most valuable asset.
A strong IP portfolio creates competitive advantage, captures market share, underwrites research and development, and promotes growth. Intellectual property is not pixels and megabits. It is human ingenuity made manifest. Prae Legal’s IP team helps clients maximize the value of that ingenuity. PraeLegal Afghanistan Network represents a wide variety of national and international corporate clients from start ups to multinational companies through PraeLegal Afghanistan network of  Intellectual Property practitioners in all around the world, the PraeLegal Afghanistan group provides clients with a high quality and cost effective way to ensure legal compliance.
Experience range of PraeLegal Afghanistan Intellectual Property Group
<ul>
<li>IP dispute resolution/ litigation</li>
<li>Rights of publicity and privacy</li>
<li>Copyrights</li>
<li>Trademarks</li>
<li>Patents</li>
<li>E-business</li>
<li>Handled data privacy breaches</li>
<li>Represent clients with respect to trade secret, counterfeiting, and price discrimination issues</li>
<li>Online enforcement protocols, privacy policies, user and membership agreements</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond IP issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s Insurance Law Practice Group is unique in its depth and breadth of experience. The group is comprised of lawyers who specialize in defined aspects of insurance coverage law, and who have achieved national reputations for themselves in those areas.
Through PraeLegal Afghanistan network of Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring law practitioners, thePraeLegal Afghanistan group represents insurers with a high-quality and effective way to ensure legal compliance. Equally as important, the lawyers in the Insurance Law Practice Group counsel claim professionals, with respect to particularly troublesome or complex claims, in order to assist insurance providers in the prevention of bad faith claims or claims for the breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
Insurance Law Experts  help Clients Facing Challenges in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>Represent clients before insurance regulators</li>
<li>Represent insurers in major coverage claims arising from diverse casualties</li>
<li>Lead corporate reorganizations</li>
<li>Reinsurance</li>
<li>Third Party Liability</li>
<li>Subrogation</li>
<li>Perform mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; purchases; sales of assets and books of business; and new entity creation</li>
<li>Draft corporate policies regarding privacy, document retention, codes of ethics, conflicts of interest, anti-fraud, subrogation policies, and claims handling</li>
<li>License and register insurance companies, producers, and other intermediaries</li>
<li>Handle product and rate filings, excess and surplus lines issues, and contract drafting</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond insurance issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Bankruptcy is both multidimensional and specialized. To identify the causes of financial distress, practitioners must have a broad corporate law background and a keen sense of the wider marketplace. To develop effective solutions, they must also have detailed knowledge of the bankruptcy code and related federal and state statutes. Prae Legal’s bankruptcy team is justifiably renowned for combining business acumen with technical skill.
Through PraeLegal Afghanistan Network of Insolvency, Bankruptcy, and Restructuring law practitioners, the PraeLegal Afghanistan group provides clients with a high-quality and effective way to ensure legal compliance. Also, the practice group pursues the objective that insolvency and restructuring experts of the law firms know each other, exchange experiences, and are informed through lectures and discussions about differences.
Bankruptcy is unique from other practice areas because it combines transactional and litigation practice. Attorneys must design complicated contracts as readily as they make oral arguments. Prae Legal’s group of lawyers’ breadth of experience in putting deals together and trying cases makes them ideally suited to operate at this legal crossroads. Our bankruptcy attorneys have extensive trial experience and move easily between the courtroom and the conference room.
<h3>Range of expertise:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Represent large private and publicly held businesses</li>
<li>Represent trustees</li>
<li>Represent creditors’ committees</li>
<li>Represent clients in all forms of litigation arising from bankruptcy and insolvency</li>
<li>Represent lenders, developers, and investors in real estate insolvencies and restructurings</li>
<li>Advise boards of public and private companies in the midst of financial crises</li>
<li>Reorganization options</li>
<li>Cross-border cooperation in insolvency proceedings</li>
<li>Counsel creditors on reorganizations, foreclosures, and liquidation proceedings</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond Insolvency, bankruptcy, and restructuring issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to additional advice, expertise, and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Businesses of every size retain employees in locations around the world and need employees who are internationally mobile. It is fundamental to the growth of businesses and to the career advancement of individual workers.
But in this era of heightened security risks and geopolitical turmoil, cross-border movement is not simple. Immigration is a heavily regulated activity and subject to time-consuming evaluation by federal and international officials. Prae Legal’s immigration group attorneys are focused on identifying strategies that protect clients and enable the timely pursuit of business opportunities wherever they arise.
PraeLegal Afghanistan advises multinational corporations, domestic companies, nonprofit institutions, investors, and individuals about;
<ul>
<li>Visas (Work permits, Study permits, Temporary Visas, Temporary resident permits, Business visitor entry)</li>
<li>intra-company transfers</li>
<li>hiring of foreign nationals</li>
<li>citizenship requirements</li>
<li>regulatory compliance</li>
<li>other immigration matters</li>
<li>Applications to overcome criminal or medical inadmissibility</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond immigration  issues, attorneys  in the group are able to connect you to additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Health care industry is one of the largest, most complex, and most heavily regulated systems in the world. It is also one of the most unpredictable. Today, health care providers and institutions have to respond to health care reform, expanded coverage rules, value-based Medicare reimbursements, pressures to reduce costs, and hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions.
Tomorrow, they will have to confront a whole new set of changes. In this fluid business environment, through Prae Legal’s health care network of practitioners, attorneys in the PraeLegal Afghanistan Health Care  group provide clients with high quality and cost effective commendation whenever and wherever health related issues happen.
PraeLegal Afghanistan Health Care Group is unique in that our law firms combine statutory knowledge with hands-on practicality. Our job, after all, is not to produce doctoral theses on the minutiae of every health code. Instead, it is to provide accurate and concise advice that helps clients achieve their goals. That means using our regulatory experience to secure maximum reimbursements, limit liabilities, and complete transactions efficiently and profitably. Our professionals are nationally recognized for their ability to identify uncommon legal solutions to seemingly intractable problems. They have successfully reached negotiated solutions in highly contentious litigation matters, achieved favorable results in litigation, and designed innovative transactional models that have been adopted by lawyers in other firms.
Extensive Expertise to Help Clients Face Legal Challenges in Health Care Industries:
<ul>
<li>Represent a variety of clients in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings</li>
<li>Structure joint ventures</li>
<li>co-management arrangements</li>
<li>relationships between hospitals and medical staff</li>
<li>Identify and resolve antitrust, tax, and bankruptcy issues for health care organizations</li>
<li>Counsel clients on Medicare, Medicaid, and other third-party reimbursement matters</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond health issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Government regulations and oversight present businesses and business leaders with some of the greatest challenges they face today. As globalization and technological innovation have remade the marketplace, governments around the world have imposed more regulations and more complicated regulations to try to keep pace. It is a fact of corporate life that organizations must understand and comply with government regulations covering a vast and growing range of topics.
Companies need experienced counsel who can advise and litigate when public policy and business conduct overlap. Through PraeLegal Afghanistan Network network of Government Affairs counsels, the PraeLegal Afghanistan Government Affairs  group provides clients with a experienced and effective way to ensure legal compliance.
Public policy is affected by politics and it is ever changing. the experienced lawyers in Prae Legal‘s Government Affairs group know what it takes to get the best outcomes for their clients. Our professionals take a distinctly proactive approach to the regulatory practice. This means that we use our knowledge to help clients achieve compliance quickly and efficiently, and with minimum business disruption. It also means that we identify areas where clients might leverage government regulations or available incentives to grow their business or become more competitive. Where others see restrictions, we find opportunities.
The Government Affairs group can provide expertise and experience in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>strategic planning</li>
<li>formulation of message(s)</li>
<li>drafting of legislation, amendments to legislation and legislative report language</li>
<li>preparation of testimony, position papers, advocacy letters and regulatory briefs</li>
<li>Represent clients in their relationships with state, provincial or country-specific governmental entities, from the legislative bodies to the various departments, agencies, boards and commissions of state/country-specific government monitoring of legislative and regulatory activity</li>
<li>coalition-building and media outreach</li>
<li>coordination of demonstrations and other interactive events for key decision makers</li>
<li>representation of clients at congressional and regulatory hearings and adjudicatory proceedings</li>
<li>regulatory compliance</li>
<li>Initiatives and referenda</li>
<li>Coordinate legal and government relations strategy</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond government issues, attorneys in the group can connect you to the additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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PraeLegal Afghanistan team of energy, environmental, and utilities attorneys advise a sophisticated client base that includes public and municipal utilities; renewable energy producers, suppliers, and distributors; manufacturing, technology, and managed-services companies; real estate developers and lenders; energy consumers; and energy investors. Our professionals capably handle the full range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters.
We support environmental and regulatory compliance, negotiate acquisitions and new project development, and represent clients in all types of administrative hearings and environmental and energy litigation. Through PraeLegal Afghanistan network of energy and environmental law practitioners, the PraeLegal Afghanistan Energy and Environmental  group provides clients with a high-quality and cost-effective way to ensure legal compliance.
We do not only have a deep understanding of the external regulatory environment, we also take care to understand each client’s business model, financial position, and long-term aspirations. We collaborate with our clients to formulate practical, cost-effective solutions that meet their business imperatives. After all, a legal strategy unmoored from the business reality is really no strategy at all.In addition to our legal skill, clients benefit enormously from our strong relationships with countries’ governments, judges, policymakers, and experts in economics, environmental science, engineering and energy efficiency. Our professionals have earned the respect of these professionals over decades of practice, which facilitates communication, ensures fair consideration, and often enables us to reach out directly to resolve potential issues quickly.
Experience range of PraeLegal Afghanistan Energy and Environmental Group:
<ul>
<li>Oil &amp; Natural Gas</li>
<li>Renewable Energy</li>
<li>Wind Energy</li>
<li>Nuclear Energy</li>
<li>Electric Energy</li>
<li>Energy &amp; Infrastructure Finance</li>
<li>Carbon Credits</li>
<li>Electric power plants</li>
<li>Gas processing plants</li>
<li>Petrochemical plants</li>
<li>Energy storage facilities</li>
<li>Energy Litigation</li>
<li>Refineries</li>
</ul>
When your organization’s legal needs move beyond energy and environmental issues, attorneys in the group can connect you to the additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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It is a constantly changing practice area governed by a profusion of interrelated federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Through PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s labor and employment law practitioners, thePraeLegal Afghanistan  group provides employers with a high quality and cost effective way to ensure legal compliance wherever employment problems happen.
When this issue happens, clients immediately face the competing goals of vigorously refuting accusations or adverse precedents, and restoring a sense of calm and unity of purpose to the workplace.PraeLegal Afghanistan Network guides clients through these complex situations and enable them to take decisive action without compromising operational effectiveness. We are keenly aware that the legal response must operate in harmony with the business goals. In essence, the members of Prae Legal’s Labor &amp; Employment Practice Group treat employment issues like their own, responding quickly to implement solutions that mitigate liability and return employees to work in a positive and productive manner.

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Now more than ever, companies face significant challenges in attracting and retaining a high-performance workforce. There is greater public scrutiny of compensation and benefits, and a push for greater transparency has vastly increased the complexity of regulations governing these matters.
Amid all the noise and confusion, PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals train their attention on the one thing that matters most: our clients’ goals. We don’t waste time belaboring constraints or cataloging unlikely scenarios. We clear away distractions and focus on finding the most efficient legal path to our clients’ desired results. Through PraeLegal Afghanistan network of employee benefits, pension and executive compensation law practitioners, the PraeLegal Afghanistan group provides employers with a high quality and cost effective way to ensure legal compliance wherever compensation issues arise.
PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals are fully versed in the details of each set of laws and maintain a broad perspective on the field as a whole. We believe this versatility is essential to providing the best advice to clients. PraeLegal Afghanistan Network can identify how even small changes in one area could affect a company’s benefits and compensation position in other areas. Moreover, clients know that a single attorney is closely overseeing their account and understands all aspects of their benefits and compensation portfolio.
The expertise of the Prae Legal’s Employee Benefits,Pensions and Executive Compensation group’s lawyers support clients facing challenges such as:
<ul>
<li>Design qualified retirement plans, including defined benefit pension plans, defined contribution plans, 401(k) plans, cash balance plans</li>
<li>Issues concerning compensation for top executives including, equity and deferred compensation arrangements</li>
<li>Counsel clients regarding multiemployer pension plans and withdrawal liability</li>
<li>Trans-border compensation and employee benefits issues</li>
<li>Plan design and operational compliance</li>
<li>Provide advice regarding health and welfare benefit plans’ statutory requirements in order to protect clients from liability</li>
<li>Prepare employment contracts, retention agreements, and change-in-control agreements</li>
<li>Negotiate executive compensation packages in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond employment issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Businesses operate in a world of tremendous complexity and must confront the challenges of globalization, technological change, economic upheaval, and limited available capital. But with challenge comes opportunity. A balance sheet with significant cash provides leverage. Altered regulations upend old hierarchies. Technological change and global competition open new markets and drive innovation. Successful companies do not endure despite hardships and they learn to grow because of them. In that endeavor, clients need attorneys who are both aggressive and forward-thinking.
We advise individuals, family businesses, public and private companies, government entities, corporate boards and committees, directors and officers, investors and investment funds, nonprofits, and trade associations in a wide range of industries.
PraeLegal Afghanistan Network corporate experience includes;
<ul>
<li>regulatory compliance,</li>
<li>corporate governance,</li>
<li>Mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures</li>
<li>Private capital raisings, including seed and subsequent venture and development capital funding rounds,</li>
<li>tax,</li>
<li>securities,</li>
<li>finance,</li>
<li>Bankruptcy, restructurings and workouts</li>
<li>health law,</li>
<li>partnerships, limited or unlimited companies,</li>
<li>choice of organizational type (private or public) and jurisdiction</li>
<li>Commercial lending and institutional finance</li>
</ul>
A truly outstanding corporate attorney must be a trusted advisor and an aggressive dealmaker. Prae Legal’s corporate department understand this dual responsibility better than most and have the requisite skills to excel in both roles.
As advisors, we provide highly individualized counsel on a full range of corporate matters. Our priority is to develop a through knowledge of each client’s business, the marketplace in which a client competes, and a client’s long-term goals. With an understanding of a client’s operations, we are then able to craft tailored approaches that satisfy a client’s immediate tactical needs and further the overall mission. Having a clear sense of the core business also facilitates more candid and effective communication. We do not tell our clients what they want to hear and we tell them what they need to know.
The attorneys comprising the Corporate Organizations Practice Group are drawn by Prae Legal‘s proffesionals. If your organization’s legal needs move beyond corporate organizations and securities issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the additional advice, expertise and support needed from Prae Legal.

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PraeLegal Afghanistan Network is proud of its distinguished reputation in the field of Construction Law with an expansive network of law practitioners. Since its inception, the Prae Legal’s Construction Group has provided owners, contractors, manufacturers, developers, builders, landlords, tenants, suppliers, insurers, and sureties with proven representation. Its experienced attorneys, many with educational and real-world backgrounds in engineering and construction-related fields, represent clients in all construction-related areas, including:
<ul>
<li>Contractor and sub-contractor disputes</li>
<li>Working with clients to identify and comply with financing requirements related to a specific project</li>
<li>Selecting project delivery systems</li>
<li>Public and Private Works Act liens and litigation</li>
<li>Design errors and omissions claims;</li>
<li>Personal injury claims;</li>
<li>Property damage claims;</li>
<li>Construction delay damages claims;</li>
<li>Business interruption;</li>
<li>Bid dispute resolution, including Public Bid Law claims;</li>
<li>Mold claims;</li>
<li>Labor and employment issues;</li>
<li>Bankruptcy; and</li>
<li>Contract negotiation and drafting.</li>
</ul>
In keeping with the philosophy, the Construction Group teams with its clients to resolve disputes in a reasonable and efficient manner, often using mediation or other alternative forms of dispute resolution to provide expedited and economical results. When litigation becomes necessary, the Group’s attorneys utilize their extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts throughout the country. Where appropriate, the Construction Group also draws on the Network’s wealth of expertise in other matters, including environmental regulation and exposure, admiralty law, transactional law, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, products liability, insurance, mass tort and class action litigation, and labor and employment law.
Prae Legal’s construction Group is distinguished by its expertise and proven record in the construction field. They are committed to providing its clients, big or small, with the best, most efficient and cost-effective representation possible. Our personal commitment to our clients is our pledge, and our experience and knowledge in Construction Law is our specialty.
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond construction issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Helping our clients accomplish their capital-raising needs in ever-changing markets is challenging. It’s not always amenable to simple solutions. It requires equal measures of understanding and listening. We work hard to understand our clients’ businesses and listen intently as they describe their objectives. Our clients appreciate our dexterity and experience in crafting new financial products and offering methodologies when off-the-shelf approaches do not work. It’s true, we like complex financings. Complexity often permits us to help our clients create value that others have been unable to unlock. Just because we’re not put off by complexity, doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate simplicity. We readily acknowledge that the most elegant solutions frequently are the simplest.
PraeLegal Afghanistan experts are among the most active and highly regarded capital markets professionals in the world. By combining their expertise and creativity, professionals of the capital markets group work together to provide seamless international solutions for clients.Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond capital market issues, attorneys in the group are able to connect you to the advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.
We think of financings as existing on a liquidity continuum from the less liquid (private financings) to the highly liquid (public offerings of investment grade debt). Our capital markets experience spans the continuum, including:
<ul>
<li>Private Placements and PIPEs,</li>
<li>IPOs,</li>
<li>Equity Offerings,</li>
<li>Debt Offerings and Rule 144A Offerings,</li>
<li>Debt Repurchases, Exchange Offers and Tenders,</li>
<li>Global Offerings,</li>
<li>Innovative Financial Products, and</li>
<li>Derivatives, Commodities and Structured Products.</li>
</ul>

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Criminal and other investigations often have a strong transnational link. The alleged conduct may be committed or an alleged perpetrator be residing abroad. Foreign subsidiaries or parent companies may be affected. Issues relating to obtaining evidence abroad or requests for mutual legal assistance often arise.
Proceeds from an offence may be located abroad. Foreign authorities may be conducting parallel proceedings. Initiating criminal proceedings can support civil or other actions. The PraeLegal Afghanistan Business Crime and Compliance group offers knowledge and expertise to support law firms and to protect clients’ interests in criminal and other investigations. Practitioners have vast experience in handling criminal investigations and prosecutions, and in dealing with requests for mutual legal assistance, and can provide proactive and preventative advice.
<h3>An Extensive Range of Expertise in Compliance</h3>
The expertise of the PraeLegal Afghanistan Business Crime and Compliance group helps clients facing challenges in:
<ul>
<li>Responding to criminal investigations and defending proceedings against individuals and companies</li>
<li>Advising individuals or companies on investigations and proceedings of regulatory or other authorities</li>
<li>Providing support during searches and seizures at home and abroad</li>
<li>Gathering of information for criminal investigations and inspection of files</li>
<li>Designing and implementing compliance programs</li>
<li>Reviewing compliance rules</li>
<li>Providing legal assistance in dawn raids</li>
</ul>
Key areas of practice are:
<ul>
<li>Anti-corruption, fraud and misappropriation of funds</li>
<li>Accounting offenses</li>
<li>Insolvency offenses</li>
<li>Export control and embargoes</li>
<li>Work and labor offenses</li>
<li>Cartel and fair trade offenses</li>
<li>Tax and customs offenses</li>
<li>Money laundering and proceeds of crime</li>
<li>Mutual legal assistance</li>
<li>Training and education</li>
</ul>
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs go beyond business crimes and compliance matters, attorneys in the Group are able to ensure you receive the additional advice, expertise and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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Lending markets have experienced dramatic swings in activity over the past several years. In today’s environment, managing risks while taking a creative approach to pursuing opportunities has become an essential balancing act for those seeking to keep their business moving forward. Our independent law firms have the deep market knowledge and decades of experience needed to provide effective and efficient leveraged finance solutions for complex transactions around the world.
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<h3>An Experienced Global Finance Team</h3>
Our significant presence in these major financial centers and extensive deal flow enable us swiftly to advise our clients on shifts in market dynamics.
We integrate our bank finance practice with our debt capital markets expertise to offer clients seamless execution in bank/bond structures, whether within a single jurisdiction or in cross-border transactions. Our professionals provide market insight and innovative solutions in all aspects of leveraged finance, from negotiations on covenants to complex subordination and inter-creditor issues, to structuring acquisition transactions that utilize multiple layers of financing. We also have extensive experience in tender offers, exchange offers, and consent solicitations for high-yield bonds.
PraeLegal Afghanistan represents leading financial institutions, mezzanine lenders, sponsors, issuers, and borrowers in a wide variety of acquisition finance and other leveraged finance transactions, including senior, subordinated, and mezzanine lending transactions; high-yield debt offerings; and bridge financings. In addition, we draw on the Firm’s global resources in tax, environmental, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and bank regulatory matters for the specialized expertise regularly required in many leveraged finance transactions.
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<h3>Full-Service Legal Counsel for Leveraged Finance Transactions</h3>
PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s Bank Finance  group comprises lawyers with leading expertise in the following areas:
<ul>
<li>Asset-based loans</li>
<li>Acquisition financings</li>
<li>Bank regulatory matters</li>
<li>Banking and Financial Regulation</li>
<li>Bridge loans</li>
<li>Capital Markets Offerings</li>
<li>Consent solicitations</li>
<li>Corporate Finance</li>
<li>Convertible debt offerings</li>
<li>Debtor-in-possession financings</li>
<li>Exit financings</li>
<li>High-yield debt offerings</li>
<li>Investment Funds</li>
<li>Inter-creditor negotiations</li>
<li>Mezzanine financings</li>
<li>Private Equity</li>
<li>Preferred stock offerings</li>
<li>Project Finance</li>
<li>PPP – PFI Transactions</li>
<li>Recapitalizations</li>
<li>Secured and unsecured loans</li>
<li>Security and Guarantees</li>
<li>Securitization and Factoring</li>
<li>Structured Finance</li>
<li>Tender offers/exchange offers</li>
</ul>

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Prea Legal Network represents clients in the commercial and general aviation industry, and in the aviation insurance community all around the world.
The aviation industry lies at the heart of today’s global economy. It influences where workers can travel, how fast cargo moves, what goods and services cost, and which businesses can access import-export markets. Aviation is also one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. It is governed by a vast assortment of national and international codes and bilateral and multilateral agreements, all of which are growing increasingly complex. The great challenge for aviation clients in the 21st century is to achieve regulatory compliance while maintaining efficiency and competitiveness. PraeLegal Afghanistan Aviation Practice Group advises industry leaders on how to operate lawfully and maximize economic performance.
Our professionals serve as primary regulatory counsel to aviation and aerospace clients around the world, and foreign airlines (both cargo and passenger), airports, aircraft leasing companies, manufacturing companies, repair stations, investors, lending institutions, cargo handling companies, maritime shipping companies, tour operators, and foreign governments. Based on our deep and detailed knowledge of aviation law, PraeLegal Afghanistan Aviation Group advise clients on all manner of regulatory compliance; appear before executive branch agencies in authorization, investigation, and enforcement matters
<h3>Range of Services</h3>
<ul>
<li>Defend clients in investigations and enforcement actions</li>
<li>Obtain necessary authorizations and licenses from authorities</li>
<li>Serve as liaison between clients and agency representatives</li>
<li>Monitor and interpret aviation regulations</li>
<li>Advice on compliance requirements for all types of aviation clients</li>
<li>Address the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, aircraft leases, carrier agreements, wet leases, and agreements with airports, ground handlers, and agents</li>
<li>Promote clients’ interests before legislators, policymakers, and regulators</li>
<li>Defend aviation clients in complex litigation matters</li>
</ul>

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Through its extensive network of practitioners, PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s The Automotive practice group serves clients around the world with engagements spanning almost every major vehicle system, assembly, and component group. Industry areas served include automobiles, trucks and buses, automotive distribution and retail, automotive suppliers, machinery, mechanical and electrical components, plant construction, and other related businesses. We’ve worked with major automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturers, their primary material and component suppliers, and companies focused on downstream sales and distribution.
Our professionals combine hands-on experience in automotive, engineering, and related disciplines with broad training in business management. We have deep functional expertise in nearly every aspect of the value chain—product development, manufacturing, purchasing, and supply, as well as branding, distribution, and retailing. Furthermore, we apply our unique perspective on the influence of new technologies (e.g., telematics and m-commerce).
Moreover, when your organization’s legal needs move beyond automotive issues, experts in the head office are able to connect you to the advice, expertise, and support you might need from Prae Legal.

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The regulatory environment for antitrust and trade regulation matters is exceptionally complex. Corporate activity is governed by both civil and criminal statutes, and antitrust matters are overseen by several different authorities with overlapping but not identical jurisdictions. Adding to the compliance challenge, identifying the fine line between competitive and anti-competitive behavior is often a matter of judgment and case-by-case analysis. PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s experienced antitrust professionals help clients make wise business decisions in this complex and intensely scrutinized arena.
We advise public and private companies on all of their antitrust and trade regulation matters, from establishing a compliance program to executing a major merger. We counsel clients about how to maximize the benefit of a strong market position without veering toward monopolization; establish competitive but non-predatory pricing; respond to market developments while maintaining independence; structure a merger, acquisition, or joint venture to efficiently pass antitrust review; and achieve compliance with antitrust and trade regulatory requirements.
Consulted early when antitrust issues or conflicts arise, PraeLegal Afghanistan professionals are often able to quickly identify comprehensive solutions that protect our clients and avert broader controversy.
Antitrust counsel at PraeLegal Afghanistan Network knows that every decision about a company’s competitive posture will have a direct impact on the bottom line. We take very seriously our role in seeking to protect clients’ fundamental financial health and identifying antitrust solutions that do not hinder growth. We do this by working with clients to establish quality compliance regimes, and we also assist clients with their strategic growth planning. For example, we evaluate whether regulators are likely to demand divestitures or sell-offs prior to approving a proposed merger, which may negatively affect the ultimate profitability of a deal. Clients contemplating significant business decisions seek our legal advice with respect to antitrust and trade regulation issues.
There is no such thing as a generic antitrust matter. Each question must be specifically analyzed and considered in its proper context. And, unlike in other legal disciplines, antitrust practitioners must understand economics as well as the law. PraeLegal Afghanistan Network’s antitrust group have advanced training in micro and macroeconomics, econometrics, accounting, and economic policy. They use this legal training to achieve a deep understanding of every client’s business model and to devise tailored solutions that serve clients’ specific business imperatives.
<h3>ANTITRUST &amp; TRADE SERVICES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Assess antitrust implications of actual or contemplated mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements</li>
<li>Seek regulatory clearance for mergers, acquisitions, and other proposed actions</li>
<li>Counsel clients on avoiding improper information sharing</li>
<li>Provide guidance on competitive pricing and non-monopolizing market positioning</li>
<li>Create corporate antitrust compliance programs</li>
<li>Provide assistance to trade associations, which are uniquely susceptible to antitrust claims</li>
<li>Advise clients in complying with federal and state consumer protection and privacy laws</li>
</ul>

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We recognize the competitive environment that our clients face. In no other industry does individual philosophy, technology, and the use of capital intersect more uniquely than in the utilization of natural resources for the production of food, fiber, and fuel.
The business of moving food and fiber from the farm-gate to the ultimate consumer involves many stakeholders and a multitude of resources. We understand the breadth of the issues that are involved and meet them head-on with insight, experience, and commitment.
<h3>Insight</h3>
Our professionals have a wealth of knowledge about the industry. We understand the optimization of limited resources in commodity production, and the effort required to reach the marketplace. We stay informed on the issues and trends that our clients face every day in their businesses. Our independent law firms have advanced degrees and specialized education in agricultural law, policy, and science, allowing us to collaborate with clients to achieve results and meet objectives.
<h3>Experience</h3>
Wisdom and strength through experience – a hallmark of our law firms. Battle-tested in the courtroom and in negotiation, our experience delivers true value to our clients. But it doesn’t stop there – our professionals have lived and worked in production agriculture. We know first-hand both the hard work and the reward of agriculture. The collective background of our team allows us to go beyond just simple representation – we collaborate to find the best solutions for our clients.
<h3>Commitment</h3>
Our professionals are committed to the future of agriculture. We stay on top of the trends, policies, and economic forces that continually shape and propel the industry. Innovations in biotechnology, the development of new markets, increased emphasis on food safety, and shifting political policies require an ever-increasing level of sophistication to effectively navigate. Our dedication to a sustainable and dynamic agricultural sector drives innovative thinking and approaches to serve our clients
The PraeLegal Afghanistan Network Agribusiness group represents:
<ul>
<li>Seed</li>
<li>Crop Protection &amp; Productivity</li>
<li>Biofuels</li>
<li>Biotechnology</li>
<li>Cooperatives</li>
<li>Livestock Producers &amp; Markets</li>
<li>Agricultural Product Distributors</li>
<li>Crop Insurance</li>
<li>Nurseries</li>
<li>Specialty Crops</li>
<li>Animal health organizations</li>
<li>Food processing companies</li>
<li>Fruit growers and wineries</li>
<li>Financial institutions dedicated to the agribusiness sector</li>
<li>Farm organizations</li>
<li>Family farmers</li>
</ul>

Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition

A Full-Service Trademark Law Practice