Administrative and Tax Law

We represent individuals, business organizations, and other entities before municipal, state, and administrative agencies. This work includes seeking permits and licenses, defending enforcement and disciplinary proceedings, contesting tax decisions and pursuing governmental approvals.
Our team renders legal services related to corporate and personal tax, general tax consulting, analysis of fiscal rules, procedures and associated tax planning, ensuring a minimum tax burden for our clients. We also provide for preparation and follow-up of requests to the tax authorities for special tax treatment, development of legal guidelines for specific tax legislation and tax litigation in the judicial and administrative sphere.

Arbitration

Arbitration has become a modern form of settlement for domestic and international business disputes, avoiding recourse to local courts. Arbitration is internationally accepted and the insertion of arbitration clauses in international business contracts is today a frequent practice.
Our legal team is apt to act and provide arbitration advices regarding the laws of many jurisdictions, in particular Arab Countries. Our lawyers are fluent in many languages, such as Arabic, English, and French, which add value to our Arbitration practice.

Banking Security and Finance Law

We counsel and provide for complete legal structuring for acquisitions, finance loans, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, recapitalization and refinancing. Our practice is best known for its valuable representation in several areas as negotiation of financial service transactions, banking regulatory issues, payment systems, capital and debt structuring and restructuring transactions.

Lebanon enjoys a free exchange system, free movement of capital and earnings, as well as bank secrecy, tax exemptions and modern regulations for the Beirut Stock Exchange

Our team has broad experience in advising and drafting Documentary Letters of Credit, Standby Letters of Credit and all types of Bank Guarantees under local and international regulations.

Corporate Law

We provide a broad range of corporate and business legal services, mainly in relation with Non Profit Organizations working in the charitative domains, sports, youth activities and politics.

We represent our clients in all aspects of their corporate life, from the original establishment of an organization throughout all aspects of its evolution and day-to-day operation.

Our Corporate Practice Group, often in close collaboration with related practice groups such as tax, securities and employment, offers a broad range of services allowing our clients to obtain advice on virtually every single request.

International Commercial Law
We represent and guide a diversity of national, international and regional companies on negotiating, drafting and implementing commercial agreements and transactions on a multitude of industries.
Our practice involves legal counseling and advice to businesses in connection with their ongoing contractual relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers and distributors in Arabic, French, English, Spanish and Dutch.

Employment and Social Security

We represent our clients on labor and employment issues ranging from advisory services to litigation, arbitration and other administrative hearings.
Our lawyers are experienced in preparing employment policy documents and forms in compliance with legal requirements, while negotiating and drafting employment contracts.
We have also developed the expertise to advise clients on social security matters including filing, registration, claims and counterclaims procedures and litigation.

Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Lebanon have not signed all conventions and treaties related to intellectual and technological property. Regardless this fact, we offer a full range of services for the registration, protection, promotion, transfer and license of all intellectual property related rights.
Our lawyers counsel on patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, trade secrets, know-how, as well as on the new concepts of intellectual property brought by the digital information age.
We also have complete packages for inventors, which cover issues from the registration of patents, trademarks and industrial designs worldwide, to the drafting of agreements and negotiation of licenses and franchises.

Litigation

Years of extensive practice are applied in all litigation cases. Efficiency, practicality and creativity are the basis of our work, combined with the appropriate aggressiveness, when needed.
The experience of our lawyers allows us to strongly assert and protect our clients’ interests and rights. Whether settlement is reached by negotiation or litigation, our objective is to secure the best possible results for our clients according to their business interests. Modern technology allows us to continuously be updated and to operate with equal efficiency from our offices or our clients’ premises.
Our expertise covers all aspects of litigation in Commercial, Civil and Intellectual Property Laws.

Maritime & Insurance law

Our office has a strong practice in ship finances, maritime litigation, maritime advisory work, and in general transport law. We act for a large number of international hull and cargo insurers.
We have an extensive experience in advising and drafting carriage contracts, insurance aspects of carriage of goods and tax based services.
We also provide in a number of jurisdictions legal services for cargo claims, arrest of vessels, collisions, wreck removal, charter party claims, financing, mortgage and registration of ships in all Lebanese ports.

Real Estate
Our team counsels clients on investments and developments of a broad range of real estate types. We have advised and represented clients on a broad range of construction related legal subjects, among others, contracting, subcontracting, architecture and engineering works.

Personal Status

Our office got a broad reputation in civil and family law such as marriage, divorce, child support etc. The experience of our lawyers allows us to strongly assert and protect our clients’ interests and rights.

Our expertise covers as well as Muslin and Christian religious courts covering all kind of legal activities for persons living in Lebanon or abroad. Our customers’ interests and our permanent focus on confidentiality are our key success factors.

Sports Laws

Our office was accredited between (2005 - 2008), by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Lebanon for the legal consulting of the Ministry and the Minister in person.

-         Based on Administration and Sports laws and Courts' references as well as our large library of Lebanese, French and Arab references.

-         Based on our expertise through the follow up of new laws and decisions related to sports and the defense of sports' affairs in relation with the Ministry, clubs and sports' unions.

We are specialized in creating new sports clubs and providing support for managing all their administrative, legal and financial aspects.

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