Tareq al-Tahous

Founding partner

Personal Profile

Tariq Al-Tahous is a founding partner of Ibrahim al-Wogayan and Tariq Al-Tahous legal group. Tariq al-Tahous has more than 18 years' work experience in corporate laws and personal laws and also legal restructuring and intellectual property cases, as he took many criminal cases involving companies and individuals in addition to the state security issues , also took part in the management of Al-Wogayan, Al-Awadi and Al-Saif Law Firm for a period of nearly 12 years during which oversaw the training and development of lawyers to monitor and supervise the technical and legal performance of the offices.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor of Law from the University of Kuwait in 1997.

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Professional Experiences

• Provided legal consulting for many companies on mergers and acquisitions.
• Pleaded in all Kuwaiti courts and tribunals of different levels in the number of cases relating to companies and individuals.
• Providing legal advice to shareholding companies to contribute in terms of restructuring.
• Providing legal advice to shareholding companies in terms of contributing to the Board of Directors and its committees and public associations.
• Represented Kuwaiti companies out of Kuwait in the aviation, energy, humanitarian and business investment matters.
• Oversaw the establishment of Kuwaiti factories through Kuwaiti investment partnerships with global factories.
• Rendered legal advice in the conversion of many local companies into Islamic structure.
• Participated in the drafting and review of Kuwait Companies Law.
• Supervised settlement of debts for a number of companies and individuals.
• Supervised the incorporation of many local companies of different natures.
• Supervised the settlement of many inheritance properties through court case or mutual agreements.
• Worked as legal consultant, reviewed, and designed laws related to the organization of commerce, finance and settlement of disputes on national level.
• Filed cases in Kuwait courts of all degree in different forms of disputes, for example, pharmaceutical companies, design and construction, communications, oil and gas companies.
• Provided advice in many Insurance and Re-Insurance cases and instituted cases in the dispute resolution committee of Insurance and Reinsurance in Kuwait.
• Providing legal advice to family companies in Kuwait with regard to the restructuring and the development of regulations and internal
regulations of the company to comply with all the regulations in force in Kuwait.
• Provide legal advice to the closed public shareholding companies, closed shareholding companies, and contribute with respect to the Governing Council and its committees to display and management of public assemblies of shareholders.

Membership

Member of the Kuwaiti Lawyers Association.

Skills