Global Guide 2026 : Lebanon
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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.
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El-Aref International Law Office counts among its clients several regional and international banks, as well as major energy corporations and tech companies. The firm regularly advises on high-value M&A transactions. It is also frequently mandated on the financing of energy projects located across the Middle East and Africa.
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El-Aref International Law Office advised Deltamar on a transportation agreement in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
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The law firm has an agile and highly knowledgeable team.
The team is able to understand our concerns quickly and provide us with advice in a way that is practical and actionable.
El-Aref International Law Office provides precise legal opinions in an acceptable timeframe.
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Managing partner Aref El-Aref is a respected lawyer whose practice spans a wealth of practice areas, including M&A as well as both the finance and development aspects of major energy and infrastructure projects.
Aref El-Aref is available and provides extremely practical advice which is easily understandable and actionable for a client who is less familiar with the jurisdiction.
Aref has great commercial awareness and always considers our interest.
Aref El-Aref is very hard-working and always delivers on deadline.
Corporate & Finance
Provided by El-Aref International Law Office
Elias Sassine
Mohamad Ramadan
Katia Daou
Aref El-Aref
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