OUR LAWYERS
A former judge and chief legislative drafter. A former central-bank adviser. An international transactions lead — and the associates and researchers who work alongside them.
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THE FIRM
A Somali law firm built for complex commercial judgment.
Insaaf Law Group is an independent Somali law firm advising businesses, investors and institutions on transactions, disputes, projects and regulatory matters across Somalia, East Africa and cross-border contexts.
Our partners' careers ran through the institutions that wrote Somalia's rules — its ministry of justice, its central bank, its ports — and the firm puts that knowledge to work for clients who cannot afford to guess.
Somalia/East Africa/Cross-border
Mogadishu.
The firm's home — and its subject.
WHO WE ARE
Independent and Mogadishu-built, we exist for one job: helping clients make and defend the decisions that matter here — across borders and across cycles.
Our partners have judged Somali law from the bench, drafted it inside the Ministry of Justice, advised the Central Bank on its own statute, and structured the frameworks behind the country's ports — then advised the global businesses that operate under all of it.
BUILT FROM THE INSTITUTIONS
A former supreme-court judge. A former central-bank legal adviser. The counsel behind Somalia's port frameworks.
PROVEN WITH GLOBAL CLIENTS
Visa. Turkish Airlines. Maersk. Capital One.
CROSS-BORDER FLUENT
We take instructions from international law firms and institutions, in their formats, on their timetables.
SENIOR COUNSEL ATTENTION
You always know who is responsible — the partner on the call is the partner on the file.
OUR APPROACH
COMMERCIAL
JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT
We say what the law requires, what the practice is, and what we would do.
INSTITUTIONAL
INSIGHT
INSIGHT
Bench, ministry, central bank, ports — we learned the institutions from inside them.
CROSS-BORDER
FLUENCY
FLUENCY
Somali, English and Arabic in-house; foreign counsel's formats and timetables as standard.
WRITTEN FOR
DECISIONS
DECISIONS
Advice comes as answers and options, not memoranda that restate the question.
Built from
the inside.
The partners learned this market from inside its institutions — the bench, the ministry, the central bank, the ports.
It is how a licence is read, a counterparty is judged, a dispute is priced.
OUR PEOPLE
Senior lawyers.
National reach.
Global experience.
National reach.
Global experience.
Every matter is led by a senior partner who stays with it from first call to final deliverable — supported by a bench of associates and researchers in Mogadishu and a working network of correspondent lawyers across Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland.
INSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE
Careers spent inside the ministry of justice, the central bank and the port authorities — now working for clients.
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ON THE GROUND
A Mogadishu office, and correspondent counsel in Puntland, Somaliland and the federal member states — reach across the country, not only the capital.
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WHAT WE
ADVISE ON
ADVISE ON
MARKET ENTRY
Establishment, licensing, local partnerships, and country counsel.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Licensing, AML/CFT, payments, and Islamic finance.
PROJECTS & TRANSPORT
Ports, energy, PPPs, concessions, and construction.
GOVERNMENT ADVISORY
Legislative drafting, regulatory reform, and policy engagement.
DISPUTES & CROSS-BORDER
Litigation, arbitration strategy, and enforcement architecture.