Established in 2004, Aman Assefa and Associates Law Office has been rendering various types of legal services for both local and foreign clients. The Office team’s expertise is mainly in commercial laws including investment, company establishment and governance laws.However, on account of the founder Mr. Adhana’s special background, acquired through advanced training, years of teaching and practice, the Office has also given a wide range of services to businesses in other related areas such as Intellectual Property laws, labor laws, unfair competition and competition laws. Mr. Adhana has served as the key expert in the drafting of the previous Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law of Ethiopia, and has also written in this area. Furthermore, Mr. Adhana has also actively participated in the revision of certain books of the 1960 Commercial Code of Ethiopia and written reports of the groups tasked with the revision. The Office, hired by foreign private equity firms, has helped structure deals between these firms and local companies; and also carried out, besides due diligence on the local companies, the necessary follow-up of the administrative procedures and formalities to see through the finalization of the deals. Aman Assefa Law Office currently serves, on a retainer basis, several local as well as foreign companies. Aman Law Office has also given a lot of piecemeal legal advisory services to a number of clients in Ethiopia as well as abroad over the past 16 years.