Carlos Abou Jaoude

Practice Areas

Banking ● Finance and Capital Markets ● Mergers & Acquisitions ● Corporate Law ● Energy ● Project Development and Finance ● Real Estate and Construction ● Tax ● Dispute Resolution ● Financial Restructuring and Insolvency ● Government Relations and Public Policy ● Media ● Private Wealth and Family Offices ● Telecommunications and Technology

Career

Carlos Abou Jaoude is the founder and managing partner of Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm. He heads the Banking and Finance practices of the Firm. He has worked in Paris and London prior to establishing the Firm in Beirut.

Carlos has more than 30 years of experience representing key local, regional and international clients across all industries in the private and public sectors on a broad spectrum of legal mandates. He has led on major groundbreaking transactions in the region, notably in the fields of banking, finance, M&A, energy, project development and finance, media, telecoms, and government relations.

Carlos has also acted for high-profile clients in winning complex arbitration and litigation cases which made headlines, with a particular focus on media, construction, energy, and banking disputes.

He is actively engaged in policy-related work, and is solicited by public authorities to opine on policy and legislation reforms. Carlos pioneered in devising several innovative legal structures and investment products in the market. He is particularly renowned for his exceptional business-minded approach to legal transactions.

Carlos is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer by prominent international directories, including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 (Hall of Fame), and IFLR 1000.

Carlos’ recent notable representative experience can be viewed here: https://www.ajalawfirm.com/Lawyers/5/carlos-abou-jaoude.

Professional Memberships

• Admitted to the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the International Bar Association.

• Member of the Ethics Committee of the Beirut Bar Association.

• Member of the American Chamber of Commerce’s (AmCham) Banking & Finance Committee.

• Sits on several boards of directors and special committees of prominent corporations and investment funds.

• Member of the inter-ministerial legal committee for the Reform of the Investment Climate in Lebanon organized by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in collaboration with the World Bank.

Publications

• Co-author of the Lebanon chapter of the ‘Inward Investment & International Taxation Review’ published by The Law Reviews and edited by Latham & Watkins USA.

• Co-author of the Lebanon chapter of the ‘Banking Regulation’ guide published by Getting the Deal Through and edited by Wachtell, Lipton, Rose and Katz USA.

• Co-author of the Lebanon chapter of the ‘Energy Regulation & Markets Review’ published by The Law Reviews and edited by Latham & Watkins USA.

• Contributor to the World Bank Lebanon Doing Business Reports on ‘Starting a Business’ and “Contracting with the Government”.

• Speaker at the Euromoney Lebanon Conference, the BDL Accelerate conference, and the International Beirut Energy Forum (IBEF).

Personal

LLB (Bachelor of Laws), Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon