KandA

Corporate Law

Our firm’s core service is providing commercial and corporate advice for both domestic and international companies who wish to transact as buyers, sellers, or expanders of their business through a variety of financing options. We regularly assist general counsels, business owners, high-net worth individuals, and shareholders with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating instruments that arise regularly in Mergers and Acquisitions, Entity Formation and Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, Private Equity and Venture Capital Financing.

CORPORATE FINANCE

Our office collaborates with our clients on a variety of financial instruments and products to realize their capital raising, monetization, hedging strategies, and compliance with the legal and regulatory developments affecting capital market exchanges. We assist our clients with complex transactions involving initial Public Offerings, SPACs and other equity financings, Equity and Debt securities, convertible bond, Options Agreements, Private placements and registered transactions, SPVs, Rights offerings, Direct Listing, and exit options. Furthermore, we advise clients on Islamic financing instruments, which include murabaha, mudaraba, ijara, wakala, musharaka, istithmar, manafa, sukuk, and istisna – whether on a standalone basis, in combination with other products, on a wholly Islamic basis, or as a multi-tranche offering with conventional financing arrangements.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Entrepreneurs and high-net worth individuals seek our advice on matters ranging from choosing the legal formation of their business enterprises to complex domestic and cross-border transactions. Our services include assisting investors in establishing new companies, guiding general meetings and corporate and internal governance, drafting of stock and capital agreements, joint venture agreements, stock option plans, establishing legal relationships between affiliates, and designing corporate restructuring.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

We provide legal advice on the complete spectrum of the M&A process, including mergers, consolidations, demergers, or entity transformations. We advise our clients on lease and sale agreements for assets, ownership interests, and company shares. Our M&A processes and services regularly include a detailed transaction structure, advice on industry-specific acquisitions, due diligence and legal audits, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, merger control and compliance, and post-acquisition advisory services.

US IMMIGRATION Law

The K&A US Immigration practice was founded on advising, empowering, and advocating for foreign nationals to successfully complete their journey to the United States. From multinational entities to individuals, we passionately serve and partner with our clients who are beginning their adventure to adapt, integrate, and live in a new culture and society. As cultural ambassadors, we advise on Business & Investor Immigration, Employment-Based Immigration, and Family & Individual Immigration, all while focusing on the individual need for a personal, curated legal experience. Our office regularly works with a variety of governmental agencies, including United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), National Visa Center (“NVC”), Department of State (“DOS”), Department of Labor (“DOL”), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and Customs and Border Patrol (“CBP”) to facilitate our client’s cross-border journey.

BUSINESS & INVESTOR IMMIGRATION

Our clients are established entrepreneurs or qualified investors who wish to expand their business ventures to the United States and capitalize on America’s existing international treaties with foreign nations. We offer a complete immigration service tailored for our corporate and investor clients that are primarily interested in Investor Visas and services, which are the following:

E-1
E-2
EB-5
I-9 Compliance
Employment Green cards through Sponsorship

EMPLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRATION

Our firm regularly assists American employers with the daunting task of hiring foreign nationals in all types of employment-based immigration cases. We strategize with employers by identifying key qualifications in potential foreign candidates and the optimal visa category suited to the candidate’s qualifications and skills. From the employee perspective, we proudly counsel academics, artists, athletes, researchers, scientists, and other highly qualified and exceptional professionals to explore options without an employer and labor certification, or alternatives that include an employer’s sponsorship. Some of the visa categories include the following:

NON-IMMIGRANT VISAS

H-1B Visa
H-2B Visa
TN Visa
L-1 Visa
O Visa
P Visa

IMMIGRANT VISAS

EB-1A
EB-1B
EB-1C
EB-2
EB-3

FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL IMMIGRATION

Clients with individual or family-based immigration matters capitalize on our US Immigration practice’s core – client-first representation. Whether our clients are pursuing permanent immigration status for family members, or a visa through the US Embassy or consular office as a student, employee, or other nonimmigrant status, our clients are equipped to satisfy any officiating officer’s requests. Our emphasis on client-first representation by compassionately and empathetically identifying individuals’ humanitarian matters, such as refugees, victims of crimes in the US or domestic violence from a US status holder, special immigrant juveniles, DACA dreamers, and respondents to the DOJ’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (“EOIR”). Some of our Family & Individual based services include the following:

Green Card Based on Marriage in the US
Green Card Through Consular Processing (Spouse, Child, Parent, Sibling)
Fiance (K) Visa
US Naturalization

Student Visas (F-1)
M-1
J-1
CPT/OPT
PERM

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