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| Rules of Engagement - Work protocol and firm policy |
Clients are requested to only contact
our firm initially for all its world offices and legal agents.
 The establishment of a unique worldwide network of agents is based
upon the execution of strategic alliance or association agreements.
These agreements are the result of a considerable investment of money,
professional time, travel and historical ties, backed up by quality
control and dealings over extended periods of time.
As such, the network forms part of the intellectual property of MBS
and cannot be referred out freely or directly without instructions and
engagement of MBS, which would breach the agreements. World
offices and agents will direct clients back to MBS.
MBS policy pursuant to strategic alliance and referral
agreements with its world associate offices, correspondents and legal
agents require as a pre-condition agreed to by the client that MBS:
- is engaged and coordinates all legal matters, advice,
litigation, official internationally recognised French
translations and global notarisation of acts and projects [as
the case may be]
- exclusively issues invoices for the work of MBS and the
other firm/s and
- assures effective international file management and advice
in language, translations and notarial work, conflict of laws
and private international legal matters.
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| Paris |
[I]
MBS has signed a Strategic
Alliance Agreement or Convention de Collaboration Organique on 29 June
2005 with the Paris Law Firm of Cabinet Barreyre-Castel, Avocats à
la Cour. This rare
association between a French and an Australian Law Firm will offer a
coordinated approach and services for clients doing business between
the two countries and Europe.
[II]
MBS executed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with the firm
Société d’Avocats Bourgoing-Dumonteil-Kerversau on 15 November 2007,
to interface with a Paris law firm which has long-established legal
networks throughout Francophone Africa. This will complement MBS’s
African practice and its first Paris strategic alliance agreement
above.
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| Rome & Milan |
| In Rome on 9 November 2005, MBS
signed a unique Strategic Alliance Agreement with the firm of Corrado
Ferrari Mainieri Pedefferi, Studio Legale Associato, Avvocati
with offices in Rome and Milan, Italy, opening an important gateway in
Australia-Italy law firm and legal relations. |
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| Burkina Faso |
On 14 September 2005 a Strategic Alliance
Agreement was signed, to further assist clients in opening up the West
African market with the firm
Cabinet d'avocats Bernardin Dabiré in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
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| Senegal |
The Strategic Alliance Agreement for this
country was signed on 13 September 2005 with the firm S.C.P.A. Sow,
Seck & Diagne, Avocats à la Cour in Dakar, Senegal, West
Africa. Senegal is a major economic player and economy in West Africa.
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| Mauritania |
MBS has executed a Strategic
Alliance Agreement or Convention de Collaboration Organique dated 20
July 2005, with the legal firm Etude Ould Bah, Avocats à la Cour, in Nouackchott, which
has been countersigned and stamped by the Conseil de l’Ordre des
Avocats de la Mauritanie (the Bar or Law Society equivalent).
This agreement represents a first in terms of strategic international
alliances between an Australian and a Mauritanian law firm to offer
clients the unique services. Combined, the firms have extensive
experience in mining, international, commercial and comparative laws
and French language work in Mauritania and the other French-speaking
countries in Africa. |
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| Reunion |
In order to better cover the Indian Ocean
group of countries and jurisdictions, MBS has signed a
strategic alliance agreement with the firm of Philippe Creissen,
Avocat in Sainte-Clotilde, Reunion Island on 5 December 2005. This
will serve as a new gateway between the Indian Ocean and the
Australia-Pacific (Oceania) regions.
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| Tunisia |
| MBS has long had the intention to
open Australia to the Maghreb or North African francophone markets and
this has been achieved by a new strategic alliance agreement signed on
25 December 2006 with the dynamic legal firm of Cabinet
d’Avocats-conseils Belhedi, Labiadh & Associés in Tunis. The
association will forge new legal links between our 2 dynamic regions |
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| Niger |
| A first in Australian legal history has
been concluded with a strategic alliance agreement of 20 February 2007
with the Niamey law firm Cabinet d’avocats Kouaovi in Niger,
West Africa. In turn, this firm is well connected with Paris-based and
West African regional law firms – providing even more benefits and
synergies for MBS clients. |
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| Negotiations |
A number of ongoing negotiations for similar agreements are in
train with the object to create a loose international alliance of
boutique specialist law firms.
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