Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office is a full-service, specialized law office based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We combine the cutting-edge individual capabilities and the specialized know-how of our lawyers with the dynamic power of teamwork to achieve your objectives.
We regularly represent diverse clients across a broad spectrum of industries in the following practice areas: corporate & commercial law, energy & infrastructure, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, banking & finance, employment law, litigation and dispute resolution, immigration law, real estate, compliance & investigations and tax.
Our clients include business enterprises, financial institutions, private equity funds, government bodies, non-governmental organizations, cultural institutions, high-net-worth individuals and domestic & multinational companies.
Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office is a leading corporate and commercial practice founded on its client base, international experience, and extensive in-depth expertise in a wide range of business sectors. Ethiopia’s strategic location and well developed infrastructure, with extensive investment opportunities and incentives, make it an ideal base for investors and multinational companies seeking to enter the African market.
Our office is staffed by qualified lawyers and we have extensive experience in assisting overseas companies to invest and do business in Ethiopia. Our proven transactional skills and our multidisciplinary expertise, with specialists in competition law, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, financing, employment, financial services and taxation, allow us to deal with all the issues which may arise in the course of any assignment in a timely and cost-effective way.
We provide tailored advice to clients on formation, acquisition and dissolution of companies and partnerships in Ethiopia and assistance with day-to-day corporate and commercial matters
Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office provides a comprehensive service for all types of intellectual property, covering patent and trademark protection, design registration, copyright and the licensing of technology.
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Our litigation and dispute resolution practice has a record of success in helping clients of all kinds to assert and defend their legal rights in a timely manner, at least possible risk. Our clients range from global businesses and organizations to private individuals, and we provide them all with top quality service and advice.
Our highly qualified and experienced specialists focus on giving clear, effective support and guidance to our clients, however complex and difficult the dispute may appear. They have the expertise and experience to advise on and deal with the largest and most complex issues, and the resources, knowledge and strategic thinking to help clients advance their interests in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. We are also experienced in both domestic and international arbitration, and we choose the most appropriate method of resolution for every dispute we are involved in.
Our office’s real estate specialists deal with all matters relating to freehold and leasehold properties, including transactions and disputes involving commercial and residential property. The department advises both individual and corporate clients.
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Our immigration team is successfully dealing with all matters relating to immigration law, citizenship applications, applications for immigration permits, permanent residence permits, employment permits and visas. The department advises both individual and corporate clients.
Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office has the most experienced team of employment law specialists in Ethiopia, with an excellent reputation for high quality, sound legal and practical advice. Our client base consists of employees and employers, including domestic and multinational businesses and organizations and the diplomatic missions of overseas countries to Ethiopia.
We have in-depth experience in providing legal advice and assistance with the full range of employment-related topics, including drafting contracts and other documentation, dispute resolution, and liaising and negotiating with government bodies, labor unions and the like.
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We represent our clients in all kinds of criminal matters.
Principal Attorney
Alebel Ashagrie Endalew is a qualified lawyer with more than 11 years extensive experience in the Ethiopian legal sector.
Having served in the office of the Federal Attorney General as a Federal Public Prosecutor for four years, he has demonstrated high level of professionalism and character required for litigation and investigation techniques. He served as a counsel representing the Ethiopian government agencies in international commercial arbitration proceedings and as an Arbitrator and Mediator of the Federal Attorney General Arbitral Tribunal in arbitrations and mediations between federal government institutions.
He also served as an Assistant Judge at the Federal First Instance Court of Ethiopia for more than two years through which he was exposed to deal with very complex business and commercial transaction trials that enables him to widen his understanding to the business environment at large.
He founded Alebel Ashagrie & Associates Law Office and acting as a Principal Attorney. He is specialized in arbitration matters (commercial and treaty-based), investment law, company law, merger & acquisitions, business negotiation, commercial and cross-border litigation, banking and insurance, intellectual property, and international contract/project work. He regularly works with and for clients from the energy, construction, technology, manufacturing, transportation, commodities and/or trade finance sector.
He possess excellent drafting skills and thoroughly up-to-date with relevant legislations. He also has an exemplary academic record, good communication skills, dispute resolution skills and an outgoing and determined personality.
He graduated, with great distinction, in 2012 and obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree from Wollo University. He is currently an LLM candidate in Business Law at Addis Ababa University. He received an Award of Congratulations from Oxford University in 2011 for his winning business proposal.
