Azar Law Firm (“AZAR”) is a full-service law firm that was founded by Yazan Musmar, who has diverse experience as an house and law firm team member in and outside Jordan.
AZAR members have more than 19 years of experience in different legal matters and represented a vast number of local and foreign clients in different matter including, arbitration in construction and commercial disputes, banking, construction contracts, local investment, energy, privatization and corporate structuring, corporate general legal issues and matters, joint venture agreements, agency, franchise and distributorship agreements, civil and commercial litigation.
Yazan Musmar
Founder and Managing Partner
Yazan Musmar is a highly skilled attorney focusing on corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions and other related work. Having worked for 19 years at another law firm, a bank, and an engineering design and consulting firm, and finally at a dairy company in Kuwait, Yazan has a wealth of practical experience in the areas of acquisitions, banking, construction and corporate restructuring. He has handled transactions where his clients acquired companies in Jordan or abroad in Europe and other parts of the world and he reviewed and commented on acquisition-related documents and agreements; he has reviewed and commented on FIDIC-based and other forms of construction agreements; he has reviewed and drafted BOOT and BOT project agreements, and participated in one of the largest pharmaceutical takeovers in Jordan. Yazan was a senior team member on a major acquisition by a group of international investors in the area of airport management and operation.
Yazan is admitted to the Jordan Bar. He is a graduate of the Jordan University School of Law (LL.B., 2002) and (L.L.M., 2009).
LEGAL SERVICES THAT CAN BE PROVIDED BY AZAR
AZAR prides its lawyer’s capabilities to provide its clients with a fully professional advice and other legal services in all aspects of the legal profession including but not limited to:
PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
AZAR team, has a very good experience and represented several clients in privatization and public- private partnership projects, either on the government side, investor side or the lenders side, the experience includes, the process starting from due diligences, preparing, reviewing and drafting the legal parts of the tender documents, ending by supervising the legal aspect of the projects.
LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
AZAR can provide a very intellectual services in the areas of commercial and civil litigation to its local clients in different courts in Jordan, the dedicated team for litigation is handling over 150 cases on matters such as construction, fraud, commercial disputes, banking transactions, electronic crimes and labor disputes.
GENERAL CORPORATE SERVICES
AZAR team can provide all services related to corporates starting from establishing a corporate, drafting shareholder’s agreements, preparing all board of directors minutes of meetings, general assembly ordinary/extra ordinary minutes of meetings, liquidation, corporate governance, regulatory compliance and compliance with the applicable laws, corporate restructuring .
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
AZAR team is capable to provide advices on issues relating to mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings. AZAR lawyers have participated in different varieties of mergers and acquisitions in Jordan and outside Jordan (as supervisory of the transaction on behalf of clients), handling legal due diligence, negotiations, drafting and documentation.
