Practice Areas
With experience in the Rwandan court system and international tribunals,
Kalisa Law & Compliance has expertise in the following areas.
Corporate Law and Compliance
Business environments are complex and ever-evolving. As transparency rises in importance and the costs of non-compliance with laws and regulations increase, businesses need legal support to adapt to the growing pressure from regulatory bodies.
Kalisa Law & Compliance provides in-country and regional legal expertise for regulations and best practices in company incorporation and registration to grow their businesses safely. The law firm offers legal support ranging from advising foreign and local investors on proposed investment to representing complex legal matters for companies and clients in legal proceedings.
Intellectual Property
Emerging technologies and intellectual property move at a lightning-fast pace in today's global marketplace. Dynamic businesses and individuals must develop legal safeguards to develop and protect their IP assets.
Our comprehensive and strategic approach for our clients' intellectual property protection is designed to maximize the value of the client's IP assets and minimize the related risks. We represent individuals, private businesses, and public companies to develop IP protection plans of varying complexity which meet the specific needs of each client.
Employment and Labor Law
Constructive employment relations are essential to the overall health of any business. Employers must maneuver through a complex range of laws governing employee relations, especially in the areas of sex and age discrimination, wrongful termination, workplace safety, job security, immigration, business acquisitions to avoid potential liability to its employees.
Kalisa Law & Compliance provides legal advice to guide employers, help them avoid pitfalls, and protect even the best-intentioned employers who are targeted for litigation by government attorneys or private parties.
Revenue and Taxation
Kalisa Law & Compliance is able to offer the full spectrum of tax advice in-country, including advising multinationals who are expanding in the region. The law firm has an extensive network of first-class tax advisors that can guarantee the best revenue compliance for business growth.
Real Estate Management and Land Transactions
Kalisa Law & Compliance provides legal support to assist clients to secure the purchase of land and its registration on their behalf. We also help our clients comply with the physical planning of the various areas in which they acquire property.
Further, our legal services can be extended to formalize our clients' contractual relationship with their tenants by drafting the necessary documentation, including tenancy agreements.
Energy, Infrastructure, and Mining
Kalisa Law & Compliance offers comprehensive legal assistance to national and international clients in the mining industry. We have a deep understanding of the commercial and regulatory aspects of the mining business but also regularly partner with specialists across the sector, including occupational health and safety, banking and finance, regulatory, commercial, environment, tax, etc. These strategic partnerships allow us to assist our clients with all the legal requirements to seamlessly manage activities across all sectors.
Family Law
Kalisa Law & Compliance focuses on assisting couples in understanding the legal ramifications of the various issues that can affect families, including divorce, child custody, domestic abuse and adoption. The law firm strives to resolve family matters with sensitivity and confidentiality to mitigate emotional damage.
Criminal & Transitional Justice
Kalisa Law & Compliance brings unparalleled expertise in various challenges that support the rule of law especially in post-conflict and transitional countries.
Mr. Kalisa believes that the foundation of the rule of law in any country starts with a fair and equitable mechanism of accountability. Transparent and efficient accountability are the ones that give people trust and great value of patriotism. Principles of rule of law range from institutional reform to capacity building of public actors.
As legal practitioner, Mr. Kalisa started his career with the Office of the Prosecutor General in Rwanda, contributing to the rebuilding of a criminal justice legal infrastructure and developing mechanisms to protect rights of all citizens. At the international level, Mr. Kalisa served five years with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he actively contributed to the Rwanda criminal justice reform as well as assisted prosecutorial trial.
Mr. Kalisa has also worked with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI), where he designed capacity building programs and curriculum to improve skills of Central African Republic actors to promote responsive governance.