← Lebanon Practice
Corporate & Commercial in Lebanon
Formation, governance, and ongoing counsel under Lebanese law for both the balance sheet and the families behind it.
Scope
A few examples of what we can handle
- Company formation and registration in Lebanon, including founder and shareholder arrangements, ownership structures, vesting, reserved matters, and decision-making rights
- Corporate governance and company administration, including boards, general assemblies, resolutions, minutes, statutory records, and regulatory filings
- Startup and scale-up counsel, navigating fundraising readiness, commercial launch, expansion, and growth alongside founders and management
- Commercial agreements, including supply, distribution, agency, franchising, services, outsourcing, procurement, licensing, and strategic-partner arrangements
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, including share and asset purchases, transaction structuring, governance, contributions, control, profit-sharing, negotiation, documentation, closing, and exit terms
- Legal due diligence, corporate reorganizations, and business exits, including reviews for investments, financings, and partnerships; share transfers; capital changes; conversions; mergers and demergers; restructuring; dissolution; and liquidation
- Private equity and investment transactions, including venture-capital and minority investments, term sheets, investor rights, shareholder protections, governance arrangements, financing instruments, and exit provisions
- Foreign companies operating in Lebanon, including subsidiaries, branches, representative offices, commercial agencies, local partnerships, and market-entry structures
- Family-owned and closely held businesses, including governance guardrails that preserve the family’s brand and legacy, succession and continuity planning, and the prevention of shareholder deadlock
- Ongoing corporate and commercial counsel, supporting day-to-day operations, management decisions, compliance obligations, negotiations, and recurring legal needs
- International expansion and outsourcing arrangements, supporting Lebanese businesses entering new markets, negotiating cross-border deals, appointing distributors, agents, and strategic partners, and structuring the provision of technology, professional, operational, and other outsourced services from Lebanon
How We Work
Legal structures serving the business.
We begin with the business itself: its ownership, management, commercial objectives, relationships, and plans for growth or succession. We then coordinate all the work as one continuing strategy. The aim is advice that is legally sound, practical to implement, and attentive to both enterprise value and the people behind it.