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We provide top-notch legal services in Ethiopia.

Local Expertise. International Depth. Business Acumen.

Who We Are

Getnet Yawkal Law Office is a leading commercial law office in Ethiopia, providing practical, strategic, and process-result-oriented legal services to local and international clients.

We take integrity, accountability, accessibility, and timely delivery of our quality legal services as the core values of our establishment.

We value our clients’ time and always strive to exceed their expectations.

We depend on our nimbleness to understand your case and provide a profound and tailor-made solution to it, but we also maintain close associations with select local counsel to be called upon when needed.

With extensive expertise in intellectual property, employment and labor, corporate and finance, tax, charity, and alternative dispute resolution laws of Ethiopia, Getnet Yawkal Law Office offers strong, sound, and cost-effective legal guidance in resolving your cases professionally and looks forward to being your strategic partner and principal legal advisor in Ethiopia.

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Getnet Yawkal Law Office provides blue-ribbon Intellectual Property services covering the entire spectrum of IP rights in Ethiopia.

Founded by the former Trademark and Industrial Design Examiner of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Authority (EIPA), Getnet Yawkal Law Office, offers the legal skills and expertise, training, and hands-on EIPA experience of its principal attorney to assist you in registering and protecting your intellectual property in Ethiopia.

Through the years we have engaged ourselves in the IP industry, we have become a reliable partner for local clients as well as well-known international IP firms and foreign-based businesses that wish to register and enforce intellectual property rights in Ethiopia.

We give great value to the creation of the mind and understand your business and IP needs.

We use a very cost-effective and client-focused service and propose fixed fees for our exceptional services, which we only charge when we add real value to your IP needs.

Providing tailor-made solutions that exceed clients’ expectations intertwined with a swift reply to clients’ request is the bedrock of our IP practice.

Labor & Employment

With the influx of many investors and expatriates into Ethiopia, as well as the passage of various laws governing employee-employer relationships and immigration issues, the demand for top-rated labor and employment lawyers armed with the necessary information, technical knowledge, and eloquence has become an urgent need.

Getnet Yawkal Law Office, with extensive experience on labor and employment, and immigration issues, has assisted clients with sound legal advice, superb communication and negotiation skills, and by successfully defending their interests before courts of law.

We aspire to remain a hot commodity in the employment sector, and for that, we commit ourselves to helping you find the best possible way out by drafting quality legal documents, rendering prudent legal advice, assisting you in negotiation processes, and representing you before competent authorities.

We understand your challenges related to employment and immigration issues and want to help you meet your goals.

Corporate & Finance

The booming economy, enticing incentive packages, infrastructural developments, an abandoned and inexpensive labor force, and the country's large population are just a few of the many reasons why investors are choosing Ethiopia as their ideal investment destination.

For years, Getnet Yawkal Law Office has helped foreign investors and international law firms by rendering sound legal advice, preparing due diligence reports, processing mergers and acquisitions of target companies, facilitating licensing and registrations and preparing various legal documents in accordance with clients’ business strategies.

Our knowledgeable and resourceful resources in commercial, competition, tax, finance, and foreign exchange laws of Ethiopia have helped our clients to update themselves from time to time and keep up with the dynamic changes the corporate and finance sectors have introduced over the years.

With extensive experience in rendering sound legal advice, drafting quality legal documents, and representing clients’ interests, we strive to provide you with proper legal guidance with the goal of putting you in the most advantageous position possible.

We offer excellent corporate and financial legal services and endeavor to add unparalleled value to your business strategies.

Charity

The charities and civil societies law is specialized, multi-faceted legislation that requires expertise.

Whether you want to setup a charitable organization, process its registration, deal with employees, or tackle tax-related issues, Getnet Yawkal Law Office will be there to assist you in every step of your journey.

We help international charitable organizations by rendering sound and updated legal advice and resolving their issues in a way that keeps their interests safe and puts them in the best possible position out there.

We understand your challenges and want to help you meet your goals.

We value your time and give utmost consideration to each case.

Providing tailor-made solutions that exceed clients’ expectations, intertwined with a swift reply to their requests, is the foundation of our legal practice.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Getnet Yawkal Law Office assists clients by providing expert reports on domestic laws and sound and refined legal advice on Ethiopian arbitration laws, including but not limited to, new treaties signed and other existing laws that substantially affect the process of litigation and enforcement of awards.

We prepare and vet commercial documents in line with the relevant laws related to dispute settlement and represent clients to safeguard their interests before arbitration tribunals. We are also known to assist clients by providing expert reports on domestic laws.

We aspire to remain a hot commodity in the ADR industry, and for that, we commit ourselves to helping you find the best possible way out by drafting quality legal documents, rendering prudent legal advice, assisting you in negotiation processes, and representing you before arbitration tribunals.

We maintain a full-service ADR capability and possess a grit mindset to address conflict at any stage and go all the way to the end.

Contact us
Website:- https://getnetyawkal.com/
Email:- getnety@getnetyawkal.com
getnety.atty@gmail.com
LinkedIn:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/getnet-yawkal-mebratu-ba155268/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnet-yawkal-law-office/
Located in Bole, Airport Road, Mega Building, 4th Floor, Room No. 417
P.O.Box 1985 Code 1250, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia