Nami Associates

Nami Associates is a pre-eminent law firm based in Tehran, and registered with the Iran Central Bar Association. The firm is distinguished by its extensive experience across various market cycles, its proficiency in a broad range of practice areas, and its specialised industry knowledge.

These strengths uniquely position Nami Associates to deliver strategic and comprehensive legal services, earning high regard from multinational corporations—predominantly those listed on major global stock exchanges—and their top-tier international counsel for its unmatched expertise in navigating complex legal matters within Iran.

Central to the firm’s ethos are the principles of availability, responsiveness, and reliability; attributes which underscore Nami Associates’ reputation as a premier choice in the legal market, and played a pivotal role in fostering the trust of the most sophisticated clients and international law firms.

Industries

Nami Associates has extensive experience across a wide range of industries, including aviation and airports, automotive, food and beverage, FMCG, healthcare (pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and medical devices), hospitality, oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream), power (conventional and renewable), telecom, tobacco, and water.

Our partners maintain strong, ongoing relationships with regulatory authorities and specialised industry associations, positioning the firm at the forefront of industry trends, legal developments, and practices. This provides deep insights for both the firm and its clients.

Practice areas

Nami Associates is a true full-service law firm offering specialised expertise in tax law, real estate, intellectual property, and dispute resolution, in addition to its established strengths in corporate, M&A, projects, and regulatory compliance. The firm’s breadth of services, combined with its long-standing reputation, position it as the leading firm, capable of handling a wide range of client needs. This diversity of services gives the firm an edge over many other firms that may focus on narrower areas of practice.

The firm's areas of expertise include:

Corporate and M&A:

With extensive experience in advising on corporate matters for major businesses across a wide range of industries, including some of the most significant transactions in the market, Nami Associates provides counsel on market entry and exit, corporate structuring and restructuring, joint ventures, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment structuring and documentation, sales, procurement, agency and distribution arrangements, competition, regulatory and licensing matters, and legal due diligence.

Tax:

Our dedicated team of tax and financial services specialists is equipped to provide bespoke and comprehensive services in these areas. We offer legal advice on tax and social security matters, structuring and optimisation, due diligence exercises, and representation in tax and social security litigations.

Intellectual property:

We offer comprehensive advice on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious IP matters, including trademark, industrial design, and patent search, analysis, and registration. Our services extend to renewal applications, identifying infringing marks and designs, addressing counterfeit products and other infringing acts (including misrepresentation by unauthorised distributors), and developing enforcement strategies. We represent clients in cancellation, opposition, and infringement proceedings, and provide guidance on the commercialisation of IP assets (including licensing, franchising, and distributorship arrangements), negotiation and documentation of IP arrangements in joint ventures and M&A transactions, and protection of other types of IP rights such as software, domain names, databases, trade secrets, and confidential information.

Real estate:

Nami Associates is exceptionally positioned to deliver comprehensive and seamless legal services in the field of real estate. Our core property law team consists of highly experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in property-related organisations and public notaries, equipping us to offer expert guidance on due diligence, risk management strategies, sale and acquisition negotiations, transactional documents, evictions, and complex property disputes.

Projects:

With significant experience in major projects across Iran, our firm advises on concessions, EPC agreements, off-takes, regulatory and licensing matters, local content, and public procurement issues. Our expertise covers projects in conventional and renewable power plants, oil and gas, mining, road and rail, and water treatment facilities.

Disputes (corporate and commercial):

Nami Associates has a proven track record of successfully representing foreign clients in complex contentious matters involving Iran. Our dispute resolution capabilities include pre-proceeding matters (dispute settlement mechanisms, court procedure, choice of forum and arbitration, pre-proceeding interim measures and injunctions, and settlement negotiations), litigation (acting as counsel before Iranian courts in civil and criminal matters, preparing statements of claim, defense and counterclaim, obtaining recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and serving as Iranian law experts in foreign litigation), and arbitration (acting as counsel or co-counsel in arbitration proceedings and as local law experts in proceedings abroad).