EXPERIENCE
The work.
Concluded engagements, described exactly as they were — for the regulator, the airline, the shipping line, the ministry and the humanitarian operation. Where a client is not named, that is professional confidentiality, not doubt — the work is described exactly as it was.
01 Market Entry
02 Financial Services
03 Projects & Transport
04 Government Advisory
05 Disputes & Cross-Border
01
Market Entry
CASE STUDY
Entering Somalia, properly
The Somali incorporation and market entry of an international policy consultancy — corporate form, registration and contracts, sequenced right the first time.
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FURTHER MATTERS
Governance and regulatory advisory for a European packaging multinational
A seafood exporters' association structured, with its member cooperatives and constitution
Standing country counsel — employment, premises and commercial contracts
02
Financial Services
CASE STUDY
Licensing Visa in Somalia
Somalia's newly regulated payments market, entered in the first wave of the new statute base — two entities, one regulatory strategy, licensing and AML/CFT across the entry.
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CASE STUDY
Rewriting the statute behind Somalia's central bank
Engaged by the Central Bank of Somalia: its founding Act analysed article by article, amendments drafted against seven comparator statutes, positions negotiated through committee.
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FURTHER MATTERS
Regulatory analysis, contracts and legal opinions for Capital One — recently concluded
Legal adviser to the Central Bank of Somalia on the IMF-backed currency reform — partner, pre-firm
The World Bank's national market study of Somali financial services — partner-led
03
Projects & Transport
CASE STUDY
Two decades inside Somalia's port framework
Concession review for the federal government, port-sector modernisation for the ministry — and counsel to the operators living under the framework.
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CASE STUDY
Counsel to Turkish Airlines in Somalia
Aviation regulation, contracts and disputes over a multi-year arrangement — the Somali end of a global airline's operation, handled continuously.
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FURTHER MATTERS
Regulatory framework work for Somalia's national electricity regulator — solar standards, donor partnership agreements
Senior legal advisor to the Kismayo Port Authority — partner, pre-firm
Somalia's PPP-framework assessment; Somaliland business-environment reform — partner-led
04
Government Advisory
CASE STUDY
Drafting the laws of a rebuilding state
From the ministry's drafting unit to a partner-led federal drafting manual — plus the policy work behind traditional dispute resolution and legal aid.
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CASE STUDY
Three years mapping how justice actually works
A multi-year Shari'ah-and-justice research partnership under a USAID-funded access-to-justice program — fieldwork, analysis and policy translation across Somalia's plural legal systems.
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FURTHER MATTERS
Somali law, translated for a global humanitarian operation — medico-legal and labour compliance
Labour Code workstream for the Ministry of Labour; legal-aid and dispute-resolution policy for the Ministry of Justice
Support to the Attorney General during the ICJ maritime boundary proceedings — partner, pre-firm
05
Disputes & Cross-Border
CASE STUDY
Acting for Maersk at Mogadishu Port
Disputes in arbitration and before the Somali courts — cargo liability, port procedure, and enforcing a foreign operator's rights in a Somali forum.
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FURTHER MATTERS
A cross-border contractual dispute for a Somali institutional client, opposite European counsel
Labour-compliance review for an international humanitarian organisation — the work that keeps employers out of these courtrooms