Chadia El Meouchi

Practice Areas

Corporate, M&A, banking and finance (Islamic and conventional), PPP, capital markets and financial instruments, structuring and restructuring, oil & gas, hospitality and urban development, insurance, project finance, technology law, construction law, environmental law, real estate banking, real estate, ADR, tax.

Career

Admitted to the Bar in the State of New York (since 2000).

-BADRI AND SALIM EL MEOUCHI LAW FIRM, Beirut–Lebanon and Doha–Qatar, Managing Partner for Beirut (since 2004) and Qatar (since 2006), at the firm since 1999.

-Chadia has practiced law in the Middle Eastern region and in Canada and North America for over twenty-two and is currently responsible for the strategy and management of the law firm in Beirut

-She was also responsible for the incorporation and launch of the Law Firm in Qatar at the Qatar Financial Centre as of December 2006 and is responsible for its strategy and management.

-Chadia has specialized in M&A, commercial, corporate, banking, finance and insurance, oil and gaz, PPP and project finance, urban developments as well as general transactional work.

Professional Memberships

-Co-founder of the Middle East Leadership Initiative, an Aspen Institute venture, 2009, a leadership initiative for the Middle East cofounded with the Aspen Institute and Shane Tedjarati CEO of Honeywell Global

-Board Member of the Aspen Institute Leadership Initiatives Committee to the Board of Trustees

-Co-Chair and member of the Human Rights Watch Committee for Lebanon

-Vice Chair and Board Member of the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies

-Co-founder and Board member of The Nights of Science, an NGO aiming to explain and educate the youth about how science affects our lives, 2009.

-Committee Member of LIFE Lebanon.

-Board Member of Teach for Lebanon.

-Board Member of Equality Now and Member of the Governance Committee.

-Board Member of Happy Childhood Foundation.

-Steering Committee Member in the Shareholder Rights in Lebanon

-Member of the Lebanese American University Advisory Council for LLM

-Board Member of various companies, including a cement company, a bank, financial institutions, insurance companies and other.

-Member of the American Bar Association, since 2000.

-Corporate Volunteer of Injaz Al Arab Companies Programme Competition, an NGO aiming to teach high school students in the Middle East about the importance of economics and finance in their lives, 2009.

-Board member for the Lebanese Transparency Association from 2002 to 2009.

-Founder of the Young Arab Leaders – Lebanon, 2009.

-Board member of Young Arab Leaders, since 2008.

-Head of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the Lebanese Corporate Governance Task Force, since 2004.

-Board member of the Young Leaders Integrity Alliance, since 2006.

-Board member of the Global Integrity Alliance, since 2006.

Publications

-Media Law in Lebanon: An Overview, 2016, Media Law – International, Specialist Guide to the Global Leaders in Media Law Practice (3rd Edition).

-Research on various legislative projects and drafts on Lebanese Law, Asialaw Middle East Guide, co-published feature, 2008. Outlined article on banking and financial law, Islamic banking and Financial law, corporate governance, tax law and companies law, construction and real estate, privatization and the Public sector, Environmental law, Kyoto Protocol and clean development

-GMB Research, GMB Publishing Ltd, an online resource focusing on business and investment in different market regions throughout the world, 2007. Publications on IP law, telecommunications law, business law, commercial law, property law, environmental law, banking and financial law, Islamic banking and Financial Law

-Arbitration and Mediation in the Southern Mediterranean Countries, 2007, Kluwer Law International and ADR Centre, Co-Author

-Legal and business section of Oxford Business Group Emerging Lebanon 2006

-Liban, Stratégie pour la création d’entreprise, October 2004, Dr. Robert Papin, HEC France; Co-authored 5 chapters in collaboration with the author

-Financial Services Regulation in Lebanon, April 2004, Richmond International Law Publications,

-Corporate Governance and Its Role in Shaping Capital Markets, April 2004, A World Bank Publication

-A legal overview of the Lebanese Banking Sector, 2004, Euromoney Global Banking and Financial Policy Review

-A legal analysis of the privatization law, Published in 13 local newspapers and magazines including: Al-Nahar, L’Orient-Le Jour, Commerce du Levant, Daily Star, Executive, and Diyar

Personal

-03/2008-present

ASPEN INSTITUTE, Washington, D.C., USA

Selected as one of the 2008 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and Alumni of the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar

-2010-present

ASPEN INSTITUTE, Washington, D.C., USA

Member of the Moderator Corps of the Aspen Institute

-February 2017

LEAPLEARNER INC, Co-Founder and Board Member of an Online Education Company with branches in HongKong and China, and India and Africa, whose purpose is to teach coding and self-learning skills to students through entertainment /gaming.