Amilex Chambers | Legal Services in Kigali, Rwanda

Services

Amilex Chambers provides comprehensive legal support to companies and institutions, ensuring they operate in full compliance with Rwanda’s legal framework. We assist in drafting legal documents, managing stakeholder relations, and resolving claims, disputes, and conflicts with precision and discretion. Our services are organized into six core clusters:

    1. Business Legal Support
  • Incorporation and registration of business entities and corporate structuring
  • Corporate governance and restructuring
  • Drafting, negotiation, and management of commercial contracts
  • Legal due diligence and compliance audits
  • Investment facilitation and advisory
  • Drafting and review of procurement and logistics agreements and arrangements
  • Legal advisory on banking, finance, and supply chain arrangements
  • Resolution of corporate disputes and shareholder conflicts

    2. Commercial, Corporate & Property Transactions:
  • Mergers and acquisitions, share purchase agreements, franchising, agency and dealership arrangements
  • Corporate finance, regulatory compliance, restructuring, and shareholder agreements
  • Property transactions including sales, leases, mortgages, transfers, acquisitions, disposals, etc
  • Litigation related to commercial and property disputes

    3. Debt Recovery:
  • Preliminary assessment of recovery probability
  • Amicable settlement efforts
  • Litigation proceedings where necessary
  • Enforcement of litigation orders for effective recovery

    4. Arbitration & ADR:
  • Open for nominations and proposals to serve as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, or presiding arbitrator
  • Assist/represent clients before arbitral tribunals and mediation panels
  • Support drafting arbitration clauses and dispute-resolution frameworks
  • Support clients in post-arbitration procedures: recognition/enforcement of (foreign) awards, or challenges to an award

    5. Tax Law:
  • Strategic support and advisory opinions on tax planning and compliance
  • Representation in administrative appeals before the Commissioner General of the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA)
  • Negotiation of amicable settlements with tax authorities
  • Judicial representation before the Commercial Court, Commercial High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court

    6. Employment & Labour Relations:
  • Drafting, review, and management of employment contracts, workplace policies, and compliance frameworks
  • Management of labour disputes arising during or post-employment, and disciplinary procedures
  • Legal implications of economic restructuring, downsizing, and technological dynamism
  • Compliance with labour laws and regulations

Amilex Corporate Offer

  1. Ensure that all agreements/MoUs between a company / institution and its partners are drafted in accordance with the national and international rules
  2. Give advice where necessary on all drafts of contracts of partnerships, goods, works and other services before they are signed and handle contractual disputes if they arise
  3. Collaborate with human resources units during the development of employment contracts and regularly advise the management of the company in legal affairs as it may be deemed necessary
  4. Review and update the internal rules and regulations of the company to ensure they are in conformity with all the present legal requirements
  5. Represent the corporation / institution before any administrative body such as the Labor Inspector’s office, Ombudsman’s office, Ministry of Local government, Ministry of Justice, Rwanda Investigation Bureau, Rwanda Revenue Authority, etc.…
  6. Represent the corporation / institution before any Arbitration tribunals and Courts of Law (from the primary courts to the Supreme Court - the highest court in Rwanda).
  7. Draft other related legal documents that may be required by the company, give support and advice in all legal matters
  8. Advise the corporation / institution on any other contentious legal issues that may arise from time to time
  9. Notary services

"Amilex chamber is specialized in all kinds of land transactions including but not limited to; mortgages, charges, purchases, sales, leases, expropriated properties, transfers and all manner of litigation attendant thereto. We also advise foreign and local institutional investors, property developers, and surveyors and do a lot of due diligence work regarding development projects in Rwanda. We also act routinely for construction corporations, and we have acted as property and estate managers for landlords based locally and abroad "

At Amilex, we offer alternative disputes solutions in a range of disciplines in the domain of business and commercial transitions. Amilex team of arbitrators act in Ad Hoc and institutional arbitration cases. Moreover, we assist clients before Arbitration tribunals.

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