Harfouche and Saad Law Firm

Practice areas

I. Corporate Law

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm is specialized in negotiations and drafting commercial agreements on behalf of preeminent international and domestic entities, in various fields, such as distributorship, licensing, sale and purchasing of yachts and boats, joint ventures and other types of cooperation agreements such as construction projects, telecom operations, hospitality and tourism and others. As well as assisting clients in negotiating and drafting international agreements and post-merger reconstruction.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm often conducts due diligence in the field of company acquisitions and connects with real estate, telecommunications and power supply transactions.
  • Our lawyers counsel clients on matters related to compliance and corporate governance, including executive and director compensation, conflicts of interest and audit committee responsibilities and requirements, codes of conduct and business ethics, internal controls, risk assessment, compliance matters, investigations, and disclosures.
  • We regularly advise clients to develop compliance program in order to meet the requirements of all local and global rules. 

II. Arbitration and Mediation

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm is selected as counsel in arbitrations especially under the rules of:
    • The Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) 
    • The Lebanese Chamber of Commerce.
    • The Sport Arbitration Center in Lebanon.
    • The Court of Arbitration for Sports.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm provides mediation services for a cross-border or national multitude of disputes.
  • Dr. Chady SAAD is the director of the Sport Arbitration Center in Beirut. He is an arbitrator, and a Professor of Law at several universities where he teaches Arbitration Law. He also wrote a thesis about the role of lawyers in mediation under the supervision of Professor Michele Guillaume-Hofnung in Paris-Saclay University. He is acting as mediator or as counsel in mediations, drawing on vast experience in disputes resolution.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm represented companies and counseled individuals, in international and national jurisdictions, in various fields: commercial, energy, construction, and investment arbitrations.
  • Members of our team also act as arbitrators and expert witnesses.

III. Sports Law

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm advises and represents clients on sports law and sports-related matters.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm team comprises specialist advocates who have extensive experience of acting for clients in high profile or sensitive matters across all major sports including football, basketball and other sports.

IV. Litigation

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm practices litigation cases on a broad basis through representing clients before trial courts, courts of appeal, the Supreme Court, and the administrative court as well.
  • Our attorneys have represented clients in various domestic and international cases and maintained a high level of professionalism winning all types of legal proceedings.
  • We practice litigation over numerous jurisdictions and a wide range of areas (including, but not limited to, corporate matters, contracts, commercial agencies, franchises, banking & finance, insurance, real estate and construction).
  • Through their decades of experience, our lawyers have represented corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, and other entities in a variety of business-related disputes relating to fraud, breach of contract, malpractice, business torts, insurance and reinsurance matters.

V. Commercial Law

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm lawyers have years of experience representing corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, Mergers and Acquisitions, joint ventures, in business-related disputes.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm has completed many transactions in a large number of industries.

VI. Cinema Industry

Harfouche & Saad Law firm has a deep insight into the cinema industry due to its long experience as legal consultant for Salim Ramia’s companies – Grand Cinema - The Fastest Growing Cinema chain in the region. In addition, the firm provide legal services to many authors with audiovisual adaptation contracts, many actors and producers.

VII. Banking Law

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm has given consultation to national and international banks on several issues, including banking secrecy and anti-money laundering laws, financing, commercial transactions, corporate, and civil laws.
  • We have also represented banks in litigations and disputes related to debt collection, bankruptcy, and breach of contract by customers.

VIII. Intellectual Property

  • Harfouche & Saad Law firm offers clients wide legal services for the development, acquisition, commercialization, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights worldwide.
  • The mentioned services include inter alia counseling and handling transactions on engagements involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, outsourcing, privacy and data security.
  • Our team of lawyers frequently participates in the negotiation of license agreements and gives consultations on disputes arisen once transgression of the law and other aspects of IP law occur.
  • Our firm has represented a variety of clients including a major Middle-Eastern CD producer, leading beverage manufactures, a leading international retail distribution company and pharmaceutical companies.
  • We believe intellectual property litigation should only be used when no business solution is possible to reach. In that case, only the Courts can provide what the market cannot: a fair and reasonable resolution.

IX. Real Estate & Development

  • As mentioned before, Harfouche & Saad Law Firm represents a wide variety of clients over numerous jurisdictions, including developers, lenders, investment banks, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity funds, investors and major corporations.
  • Our representations include leasing on behalf of landlords and renters; real estate litigation; real estate workouts and restructurings; and the development and acquisition of office buildings, hotels, resorts and shopping centers.
  • Harfouche & Saad Law Firm often assists real estate developers in setting up the legal structure for real estate development projects, as well as negotiation and drafting of sale and rental agreements for major real estate projects.

X. Public & Administrative Law

  • Harfouche & Saad Law Firm provides legal services in all matters related to Public and Administrative Law such as adjudication, public tender, State Contracts (Contrats d’Etat), B.O.T. contracts. To serve its clientele, Harfouche & Saad Law Firm combines its administrative and public law experience with that of government relations and policy advocacy, to give the client integrated, strategic assistance. On numerous occasions, the Firm, with the experience of its founding partners and team is called upon to represent clients in litigations before the Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) and in cases involving the challenge of the constitutionality of laws before the Conseil Constitutionnel.