Salim 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, litigation, tax.

Career

Member of the Beirut Bar since 1967

-Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm (Lebanon) and Badri and Salim El Meouchi LLP (Qatar Financial Center – Qatar), Chairman and Senior Partner.

-Baillart et Associés, Paris - France, Shareholder until 2007

-Law offices of Cheikh Béchara El Khoury and Maroun El Meouchi, Lebanon, Trainee, 1967-1970

Professional Memberships

-Frequently selected as arbitrator or counsel before the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the UNCITRAL.

-Chairman of Interleges, a global association of independent law firms (2005 to 2008).

-Board Member of leading multinational, and banks and corporations in Lebanon and abroad.

-Member of the Legal Committee of the Association of Banks.

-Advisor on various missions for the Central Bank of Lebanon.

-Founding-Member of Transparency International / La Fassad, Lebanon, an association working against corruption, Lebanese Chapter of Transparency International.

-Trustee of the Naef K. Basile Foundation.

-Member of the Council of Arbitration of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce (CCFA) – Paris.

-Member of the LCIA

Publications

Contributed to numerous legal articles in several international, regional and local publications and participated as a speaker in multiple forums including:

-World Justice Project – Barcelona 2010 – Also member of the WJP commission on “The involvement of traditional justice systems”

-« The Rule of Law in International Commerce and the Action of Legal Practitioners thereon » at Naples conference on 24 November 2007

-Abstract – Kyoto CDM Project Compliance with Islamic Finance – Riyad KSA 2007

-World Bank + IFC + MOF + MOE Workshop/ “Improving Business”, January 2007

-IFES/ UNDP – Seminar on Justice in Lebanon, September 2006

-Conference on Intellectual Property Regulations in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut, May 2006

-ADR Center – MENA Seminar on Mediation & Arbitration, April 2006

-IFC – Seminar, December 2005

-Islamic Finance and Arbitration CCFA – Paris, December 2005

-IFC and World Bank seminar on “Doing Business”, November 2005

-Centre Arabe d’Arbitrage International - “L’Arbitrage Arabe à l’Horizon du 21ème Siècle” – Tunis, Seminar, November 2001