New realities require new thinking for business continuity

A distinctive approach to deliver the result that makes a greater impact

Founded on the idea that experience, talent, and creativity empower businesses to navigate complex challenges in an increasingly competitive global landscape, KONRAD LEXC helps businesses to capitalize on opportunities with confidence.

We are a transactional force combining global market knowledge with local cultural nuance to guide our clients through complex, multinational deals.

We support corporate legal functions to boost the performance of their legal teams by delivering legal services in the most effective and efficient way possible.

Our Capabilities

Expertise that Powers Your Business Forward

Our business practice area encompasses a wide range of services designed to address the diverse needs of our clients. We provide comprehensive legal solutions, tailored to your unique needs, ensuring high quality legal advice to deal with the complex issues you face.

In today’s dynamic and complex market landscape, we are reinventing legal services, marrying our passion for business with a deep, focused understanding of the law, to deliver value to our clients.

Corporate and Governance

Guiding businesses through every step of company formation, from articles of association, memorandum of association and regulatory approvals to corporate governance frameworks. We help our clients to develop and implement the procedures and processes to fulfil their keep compliance obligations.

Strategic alliances

We provide support aligned with each client’s specific challenges, risks and opportunities, to deliver legal advice in a way that achieves the best outcomes for our clients. Our support includes a broad range of collaborative arrangements, complex contractual collaborations, licensing arrangements, and product development, manufacturing and marketing alliances

Life Sciences Licensing

With AI transforming the way life sciences industry approaches to research, development, and regulatory challenges, we help clients adapt to-and anticipate-change. Our deep understanding of this sector’s evolving complexities and opportunities allows us to advise life sciences companies and their investors on the full range of technology-based commercial transactions as they navigate this rapidly changing environment.

Our work spans structuring and negotiating the industry’s most transformative strategic partnerships, joint ventures, technology-based commercial transactions, and other licensing agreements.

Commercial, outsourcing and technology

Our advice covers the supply of goods, the provision of services and use of technology. We provide transactional support to start-ups and multi-national companies covering a wide range of commercial contracts, from technology transfer, licensing, data protection, to manufacturing, distribution, agency, procurement arrangements, and sponsorship.

Banking and Finance

Offering expert advice on regulatory compliance, financial structuring, and banking operations. We advise on the legal and regulatory risk management aspects of major transactions in an increasingly unpredictable regulatory environment, including investment banks and investors in capital formation transactions, acquisitions and joint ventures.

Insurance

Delivering strategic counsel on insurance policies, claims, and risk management.
We also advise clients on transactions with insurers, providing innovative solutions to risk retention, disclosure, and regulatory capital requirements.

Embracing the future of the Middle East

The KONRAD LEXC Experience

We leverage our international strength and knowledge of the Middle East legal systems to deliver customized solutions, tailored to the needs of our clients. We advise on matters across Europe and the GCC countries, ensuring exceptional service and strategic guidance for the complex local challenges our clients meet.
Legal confidence for the ambitious global client
Crafting solutions that transcend expectations
We focus on what matters to celebrate success
We embrace new ways of thinking to deliver tactical solutions tailored to your needs
Combining the proficiency of the best large law firms with a highly personalized experience
Led by the core principles of integrity, and an unwavering commitment to excellence

Experience Meets Innovation

Specialized in all major areas of business law, we serve businesses in a wide range of industries, working in conjunction with leading experts. We are committed to empowering our clients with the knowledge and support they need to navigate the complex legal landscape seamlessly. We believe that legal work done with clarity and integrity can be a real force to rise to any challenge.

Global reach, Local expertise

Through working alongside our partner network, our multilingual, multicultural, and experienced lawyers can handle a broad range of complex legal issues involving multiple jurisdictions, at the local, regional, and international levels.

Equipped with the legal expertise

We specialize in all major areas of business law, with a particular focus on the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector. We serve a wide range of industries by collaborating with leading experts.

Uncompromising approach to quality and service

Hayfa Konrad

Founder & Managing Director

French lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar, Hayfa advises both domestic and international clients in complex transactions in various industry sectors, with a particular focus on the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector.

Key Expertise

Multinationals and financial institutions face complex challenges from structuring a deal to closing it. KONRAD LEXC can guide you to achieve the value sought, from strategy, due diligence, financing, tax issues, to regulatory considerations, assisting clients in relation to strategic partnerships, IP transactions, licensing agreements, R&D agreements, product development, settlement deals, technology transfer issues, M&A and compliance programs.

Professional Background

Prior to establishing her own legal consultancy, Hayfa worked for leading law firms in Beyrouth, Florida and Paris, supporting clients through local and cross-border transactions. Beyond her years of experience as a lawyer in private practice, Hayfa has also enjoyed considerable participation in the business world. She spent over a decade in various senior in-house legal roles, where she served as General Counsel of a leading insurance player, with operations across multiple continents.

Industry Leadership

Hayfa is a member of Swiss Healthcare Licensing Group and Pharma Licensing Club France, a group of 8 BD&L national organizations in Europe all dedicated to promoting and supporting excellence in deal making across the healthcare industry.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

His broad experience also includes

Ismail was a member for over a decade of the UAE National Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Financing of Terrorism and Financing of Illegal Organizations Committee.

Dr. Ismail Ahmed Darwesh Al Blooshi

Founder & Managing Director of ID & Co

With over three decades of experience in the legal field, Dr. Ismail Ahmed Darwesh Al Blooshi is a recognized financial services and banking laws regulatory expert, advising banks, nonbank financial institutions in navigating the complexities of banking regulations.

Over his 20-year career at the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), Ismail has gained broad exposure to the global financial markets and its key participants, where he handled a wide variety of bank regulatory issues, supervisory matters, and enforcement actions.

Through his own legal consultancy firm ID & Co, Ismail will continue contributing to the upholding of the highest legal standards, and to fostering a secure financial environment.

Ismail uses the deep and extensive experience he gained during his previous role at the CBUAE to advise clients on the increasingly complex regulatory standards required.

Our Process, Your Success

Driven by values that bring impact to our clients

Engage

Assembling the right team across any set of jurisdictions with the best practice tools to take law to the next level

Strategize

We develop a tailored legal strategy to serve your ambitions and meeting your expectations in terms of legal fees

Innovate

We explore the most innovative solutions to generate additional business value and execute on client needs