Badri & Salim El Meouchi Law Firm


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Badri & Salim El Meouchi Law Firm

3 Selim Takla Street, P.O. Box 11-3577
Beirut 20285603
Lebanon

Phone 961 1 995900
Fax 961 1 995906

Law Firm Overview

FIRM OVERVIEW: Founded in the 19th century, Badri & Salim El Meouchi Law Firm is one of the oldest, largest, and most distinguished of the leading law firms in Lebanon. The firm provides a full range of comprehensive legal services including Civil, Corporate, Financial, Tax, Internet, Real Estate, Criminal, and Personal Status law, and is particularly notorious for its Banking and Commercial practice, including Corporate, Financial Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Capital Markets, and Privatization, as well as Litigation and Arbitration.
The firm comprises a team of 25 qualified and experienced lawyers combining outstanding academic achievement and high professional training, and selected from the most renowned international and national universities including Harvard, Georgetown, La Sorbonne, Lyon, Montpelier, and Saint-Joseph Beirut.
The firm continues to work closely with the Lebanese Government, the Central Bank of Lebanon, the Lebanese Banking Association and the Parliament on specific legal reforms relating to banking and other regulations. Therefore, where the Lebanese system requires some adaptations, the firm has been the promoter of several legal reforms.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: The firm provides expert legal advice on, and handles disputes in, all areas of trade and commerce, corporate, finance and banking, as well as litigation and arbitration, internationally. The firm is proficient in both the civil and common law systems, hence leading to a strong international practice. The firm advises clients on complex cross-border transactions and has played a leading role in recent Lebanese economic changes including cross-border mergers and recent waves of privatization. Also, the firm cooperates closely with major international law firms.
As member of Interleges (an international network of independent law firms), the firm’s international activities have spread to the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In addition to the fact that some of the firm’s lawyers are attorneys in the courts of New York, Senior Partner Salim El Meouchi is shareholder in the French law firm Bailliart et Associés, in Paris, with whom the firm cooperates on specific matters.

INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS: Clients of the firm include many of the world’s leading multinational corporations, public and private corporations, international and local investment and commercial banks, financial institutions, governments and state-owned entities, multilateral agencies, leading businesses, audit companies, financial and management consultants, multinational construction companies, insurance companies, high-technology start-up companies, entrepreneurs, major investors, utilities, developers, entertainment companies, trade associations, charitable foundations, estates, industrial and commercial companies, property companies, hoteliers, landowners, occupiers, borrowers, funders or lenders, and other persons or entities seeking advice regarding their domestic and international affairs, including cross-border transactions and inward or outward investment activities.
Integrated services are provided to clients in many different industries including banking, finance, telecommunications, energy, oil and gas, waste and water, construction, food and beverages, environmental, industrial, media and communications, health care, maritime, aviation, transport, lottery, tourism, leisure, sports, restauration and catering, and urban planing and development.

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