Professional memberships:

• Beirut Bar Association (Lebanon). Admitted 1964

Languages:

Arabic (native), French (language of legal education) and English (proficient)

Education:

• French and Lebanese Degree in private law from Université Saint Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon) and Université de Lyon (Lyon, France)

Sample of experience:

• Represented numerous hotels and beach resorts in their claims against the Lebanese government resulting from the excessive increase of dues relating to their privilege to use the maritime public domain. The claims resulted in the annulment of the governmental decree that increased said dues

• Represented a bank in the precedent setting protection of trademark judgment relating to economic parasitism in the use of a similar name by a company active in a non-competing business

• Advised a local bank in the creation of a financial institution that would act as a “Bad Bank” which would carry the bank’s non-recoverable debts

• Advised in the structuring of the first Lebanese mutual fund specialized in investing in local assets

• Represented the owners of 50% of the shares in one of Lebanon’s largest food producing groups (a family business for three generations) in the arbitration they entered into with the owners of the remaining 50% of the shares in the group

• Represented a regional holding company in its disputes with three (3) regional banks relating to its syndicated loan that was intended to be settled through the transfer of the revenues from the sale of shares it owned in a local bank

• Represented the company tasked with the reconstruction of downtown Beirut after the civil war in various real estate litigations relating to expropriations and re-expropriations of properties

• Represented a variety of companies in litigations brought against the Lebanese State as a result of breach of government contracts (e.g. telecommunication, sewage, urban planning)