News & Insights
Amendments to Jordan’s Companies Law: What Investors Should Watch
Jordan’s Companies Law has been amended repeatedly over the past decade, and each round has shifted the practical balance between speed of incorporation and the disclosure expected of shareholders. This note sets out the questions we are asked most often when an investor chooses between a limited liability company, a private shareholding company and a registered foreign branch: capital requirements, the real scope of shareholder liability, and which decisions still require a filing with the Companies Control Department.
Trademark Registration and Enforcement in Jordan: A Practical Guide
Jordan is party to the principal international intellectual property treaties, but enforcement still turns on local procedure. This guide walks through the registration route before the Industrial Property Protection Directorate, the opposition window and how it is used in practice, the evidence that carries weight in an infringement action, and the customs recordal that stops counterfeit goods at the border rather than in the market.
Choosing a Forum: Arbitration or the Jordanian Courts?
The dispute resolution clause is usually drafted last and litigated first. We compare what a commercial party actually gets from proceedings before the Jordanian courts and from institutional or ad hoc arbitration — cost, timetable, confidentiality, the availability of interim relief, and, most decisively, how straightforward the resulting judgment or award will be to enforce against assets in the region.
Employment Contracts and Workforce Compliance: Where Employers Slip
Most employment disputes we are asked to defend begin with a document that was never adapted to Jordanian law: a probation period that runs too long, an end-of-service calculation based on the wrong salary component, a non-compete drafted for another jurisdiction, or a termination carried out without the notice the Labour Law requires. This note sets out the clauses worth reviewing before a dispute makes the review urgent.