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Q&A ANSWERS POSTED HERE - http://www.yallastartup.org/blog/2010/05/04/how-to-keeping-it-legal-with-aymen-almoayed/ “Ask the Expert” is part of an ongoing series of Q&A sessions with industry experts where you, our readers, are given the opportunity to have your questions answered. You been asking and we’ve been listening and now you’ve got it. It is with great pleasure that we have MENA legal expert, Aymen Almoayed, on deck to answer your legal questions. He is on the ground and has seen it all. Now it is up to you to ask him the hard questions. The way this will work is you ask questions and we’ll pick the top 3-5 topics for Aymen to answer in a future blog post. Question collection will start today and will be open for one week. Here is how you can ask your questions:
Yalla! Ask way! About Aymen Almoayed Aymen Almoayed is a Bahrain-based legal consultant and corporate strategist operating through a number of vehicles including Althukair & Almoayed – Litigators and Counsels where he is a founding partner. His work in the field of law throughout the Gulf Cooperative Council of Arab States (“GCC”) has primarily been in the facilitation of developing corporate opportunity. He has been retained in the past eight years to lead cross-boarder acquisitions, negotiate mergers, analyse and deduce the best sources of liquidity, issue corporate bonds, restructure organizations, liquidate operations and list corporate vehicles. From another prospective, Aymen has been appointed as both trustee and independent director in a number of regional operations. The exposure, plus his experience as the founder of over 5 successful companies, has allowed him to better appreciate the intricacies of international business and more importantly regional opportunities. Such expertise is continually placed to good use while analysing commercial opportunities at the Board level or as objective legal counsel. Aymen is a graduate of both the University of Kent and the University of Cambridge. He was a granted Bachelors Degree in Law and the Masters in Business Administration respectively. |
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ما الفرق بين "رأس المال" (المبلغ المسجل ضمن الوثائق القانونية لتأسيس الشركة) و"قيمة الشركة"، قبل مرحلة تمويلية معينة (لنقل مثلا التقدير الأولي Pre-money valuation)؟ حسب فهمي الشخصي ثمة فرق. لكني اليوم في اجتماع مع محام، علمت منه أن قيمة الشركات ذات المسؤولية المحدودة في المغرب، هي نفسها قيمة المبلغ الذي سجلت به كرأس مال. وهي قيمة لا تتغير بحجم المداخيل. فلو تم تأسيس شركة ذات مسؤولية محدودة وحدد لها مبلغ ألف دولار، فسيكون ذلك المبلغ هو قيمتها. ولو جاء مستثمر وأراد الدخول في تمويل الشركة، فإن تقييمه الوحيد الممكن سيكون هو ألف دولار. على الأقل هذا ما يعرفه المحامي الآن، وقد طلبت منه البحث أكثر في موضوع الاستثمارات. أو ربما الأمر يختلف من دولة إلى أخرى، وهذا يقودني إلى السؤال الموالي: نظام الاستثمار المخاطر (Venture Capital) ظهر بداية في أمريكا، وتطور كثيرا هناك. في حين لم ينتقل هذا النموذج الاستثماري إلى كل الدول، ولا بنفس الشكل. ما هي الدول العربية التي تتوفر ترسانتها القانونية على أنظمة التمويل المخاطر القريبة من النظام الأمريكي؟ وهل تعرف تفاصيل معينة عن نظام (قانون) استثمار رؤوس الأموال المخاطرة في الشركات الناشئة في المغرب؟ |
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Perfect timing, I really need an answer for this this question: We are trying to setup our startup as a corporation, but at this point we consist of a Founder and a very tiny team, with the business being financed (bootstrapped) by the Founder who owns a majority stake in the business. One of the things that confused us is who should constitute our board of directors? The Founder will be one of them, but we have no investors at this point, and we cannot afford experts as directors because its just too soon for us. Can the board of directors be a one man show in our early days, because we have no time for formalities and meetings as we are busy structuring our business and developing our product. Please let me know what do you think.. |
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I am starting out and some friends and family want to give me money. However, I do not want to anything too complicated. My "investors" want something on paper and I am totally lost. I hear about convertible debt. What do you recommend I do? |
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What are common pitfalls that you have seen people do legally and do you have suggestions for how they can be avoided? |
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If you are an angel investor, which corporate structures are investor friendly? In the US, we typically do convertible debt or preferred stock in a c-corp. Are those viable options in the MENA? |
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What set ups allow you to issue option pools ? What about vesting schedule ? I think in Lebanon you can't really have a traditional "vesting schedule" ... |
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