Insights

Legal insight on doing business in Somalia

Commentary from the firm’s lawyers on the questions that recur in Somali practice: how the legal system fits together, where the risks sit, and what it takes to get things done. This is the firm’s own analysis, written for the businesses and counsel who work in the country.

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Statute, Shari’ah and Xeer: a history of the Somali legal system

Somali law draws on three sources at once, statute, Shari’ah and customary law, each arriving in a different century and each still in force. This briefing explains where they came from and how they work together today, and what legal pluralism means for anyone doing business in Somalia.

Prepared by Abdiwahid Osman Haji Read the briefing

More insight, as the firm publishes it

The firm is building out this section with commentary drawn from its own practice, on the questions clients and instructing counsel ask most often: registering and running a company, structuring finance so it holds under Shari’ah, resolving disputes where court enforcement is uncertain, and reading Somalia’s federal structure before capital is committed.

For the firm’s reading of specific legal developments as they happen, see the Articles section; for formal announcements of new legislation and regulation, see Press releases.