About
Provided by El-Aref International Law Office
El-Aref International Law Office's Corporate & Finance department advises on complex, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, banking and syndicated finance, capital markets, project and infrastructure finance, joint ventures and consortium structuring, private equity and venture capital, corporate governance, and public-private partnerships across Lebanon, the wider MENA region, the GCC and Sub-Saharan Africa. The department combines deep Lebanese regulatory insight with international execution standards, bridging civil-law and common-law systems for clients undertaking multi-jurisdictional transactions, and regularly serves as Lebanese and regional counsel alongside leading Magic Circle law firms and Amlaw 100 law firms . Its work spans negotiated and contested situations, from advance preparation of acquisition targets and asset and share transfers to syndicated lending, conventional and Sharia-compliant facility documentation, EPC and concession structuring, regulatory licensing and market entry, and development-finance and export-credit-backed transactions.