Hachem Law Firm
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Nakhle Center, Main Road, Furn El Chebbak, Beirut-LEBANON
+961.1.281806   |   +961.3.747278   |   +961.3.929393
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Hachem Law Firm has a well renowned reputation in Global Banking Practice. Today we advise numerous banks particularly in matters pertaining to recapitalization, asset based lending transactions as well as restructuring. Our Banking and Finance team handles the most complex national and international transactions and advises Banks on their most challenging business issues. Our goal is the transfer of the firm's knowledge and experience in order to assist our clients to complete successful transactions. Today, we are the sole external legal counsel of two of the largest Lebanese banks and we have been appointed as supervisors of the legal department of numerous other financial institutions in Lebanon and the Middle East. Our finance practice extends to numerous countries around the world such as the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Our lawyers are experienced in local and international banking and finance laws, regulations and customs and are committed to assist our clients to navigate new complexities in today's financial markets.
Banking & Finance
Hachem law firm's bankruptcy and reorganization practice group draws on experienced lawyers. We particularly offer counsel in the transactional and litigation aspects of bankruptcy cases. Depending on the particular industry or issues at hand, we can bring together experience and talent from the many areas of law that shape the dynamics of a troubled company. We have a wide experience in matters pertaining to asset acquisitions and dispositions, exit financing and avoidance actions. Our experienced litigators cover all types of litigation arising out of or related to insolvency matters. We provide the best legal advice to local and multinational companies at all phases of the restructuring and reorganization process, whether pre-bankruptcy filing or post-bankruptcy filing.For many years Hachem Law Firm has served as counsel to debtors, creditors and trustees.
Bankruptcy & Reorganization
 
The Hachem Law Firm corporate practice has a global dimension. With corporate lawyers, our global footprint makes corporate expertise available to you anywhere, anytime.Hachem Law Firm corporate lawyers provide counsel to and serve the transactional needs of large public and private companies, as well as a select group of emerging companies. We provide you with services ranging from day-to-day counsel for senior management to the coordinated expertise needed to lead you through complex business transactions, including:

•  Commercial finance
•  Corporate finance
•  Corporate governance
•  Counseling on capital structure
•  Dispositions
•  Executive compensation
•  Joint ventures
•  Mergers and acquisitions
•  Private equity
•  Secured transactions
•  Securities law compliance
•  Takeovers and proxy contests
Corporate Transactions & Securities Regulation
 
At Hachem Law Firm we particularly pride ourselves with our immense experience and unrivaled reputation for providing the best advice and representation in criminal trials. Today we are widely regarded as the leading criminal defense set in the country. We offer highly specialized service and counsel to those accused of criminal offences and provide them with insightful advice together with outstanding advocacy at a criminal trial.

Our focus on Criminal Law has enabled us to offer a unique and thoughtful approach to the criminal law.

We cover the full scope of the said field specializing particularly in corporate crime, money laundering and proceeds of crime. Our senior lawyers have been involved in the most serious and important cases in all areas of crime, including terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, serious offences of violence and sexual abuse. We are well known for representing high-profile clients such as senior Lebanese politicians and government officials.
Criminal Law
 
We regularly advise a diverse range of clients on issues arising from antitrust and competition regulation.
The group prides itself on its counseling ability - so that clients can avoid costly litigation through preventive counseling. Our clients routinely rely on our advice in a wide variety of contexts including the structuring of licensing arrangements, the sharing of competitively sensitive information, participation in standards setting associations, and in the planning of complex business combinations which raise competitive issues.
Economic Regulation
 
Protecting and making productive use of intellectual property is a critical element of long-term business growth and success. Companies know that patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets are among their most valuable assets. In light of the substantial investment that businesses make in research and development, brand management and product awareness, programs for the protection, exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights should be key elements of a company's business plan.

We represent companies that span many diverse fields, including computer hardware and software, medical devices, pharmaceuticals products and electronic games and publishing.

Experience in intellectual property law, combined with our ability to handle the largest of litigated cases and all forms of dispute resolution, enable us to assist businesses.  We do so by actively protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights and properly defending them from charges of violating the intellectual property rights of others.

We also provide patent, trademark and copyright counseling to a large client base.
Intellectual Property
 
Hachem Law Firm has a wide experience in both strategic and private equity transactions, specific industries and cross-border transactions. We provide our clients worldwide with the best legal advice on all aspects of M&A and corporate finance transactions. Our goal is to ensure a perfectly coordinated transaction management and enhance the effectiveness of such transactions. We cover the full scope of public and private acquisitions and divestments. We advise not only major multinational corporations , but also private equity investors, financial institutions as well as family-owned businesses and private entrepreneurs.
Joint Ventures and Mergers & Acquisitions
 
Hachem Law Firm has a wide experience in both strategic and private equity transactions, specific industries and cross-border transactions. We provide our clients worldwide with the best legal advice on all aspects of M&A and corporate finance transactions. Our goal is to ensure a perfectly coordinated transaction management and enhance the effectiveness of such transactions. We cover the full scope of public and private acquisitions and divestments. We advise not only major multinational corporations , but also private equity investors, financial institutions as well as family-owned businesses and private entrepreneurs.
Labor & Employment
 
Hachem Law Firm has a wide experience in both strategic and private equity transactions, specific industries and cross-border transactions. We provide our clients worldwide with the best legal advice on all aspects of M&A and corporate finance transactions. Our goal is to ensure a perfectly coordinated transaction management and enhance the effectiveness of such transactions. We cover the full scope of public and private acquisitions and divestments. We advise not only major multinational corporations , but also private equity investors, financial institutions as well as family-owned businesses and private entrepreneurs.
Litigation (all kinds of litigation)
 
We advise on all matters related to the matrimonial laws in forth: divorce, children custody, management of marital property, division of property, spouse duties… We have experienced lawyers each specialized in the matrimonial law of a different community (each community in Lebanon has its own matrimonial law).
Matrimonial Law
 
Clients who demand broad legal acumen and innovative thinking to guide their real estate projects from start to finish find those talents in the lawyers at Hachem Law Firm. Our real estate practice group has structured and finalized real estate transactions for clients around the globe.We represent such varied clients as engineers and developers, contractors and commercial landlords, foreign and domestic investors, banks underwriters. Our work involves the full spectrum of issues encountered in successfully closing a transaction - negotiating, completing due diligence, documenting and inking contracts.

Our lawyers are technically skilled in all areas of real estate transactions, from tax-exempt and variable-rate financing to equity participations and REITs, from construction lending to convertible and contingent-interest mortgages, from synthetic leases to syndications. One of our most significant functions is to provide the client maximum benefits while limiting its vulnerability to tax and other liabilities.

Hachem Law Firm often directs the due diligence for an acquisition and negotiates management and franchise agreements. The firm advises clients on how to deal with or acquire troubled projects and has extensive experience as debtor's counsel, creditor's counsel and creditors committee's counsel.
Real Estate & Hospitality
 
The firm's tax lawyers provide counsel and serve the tax needs of both local and international companies. They are well accustomed to the business as well as the legal intricacies of international taxation. Our team is constantly in touch with changing tax laws, practices and dispute resolution techniques and is always prepared to advise our clients accordingly and assist them in the design, implementation and defense of international tax planning structures. Our tax team offers clients an exceptional breadth and depth of expertise, which is unsurpassed in the Lebanese legal marketplace. We provide counsel to a broad range of company sizes and sectors, from specialist consultancies to major multinationals. With our wide experience in the field, we also offer the best tax planning and compliance advises.

Our firm has experienced tax litigators who can represent clients on every step of the tax dispute resolution process.

Hachem law firm's tax practitioners are experienced in general income taxation (including acquisitions, restructuring and dispositions), individual taxation, partnership taxation, tax-exempt organizations, tax-exempt financing, state and local taxation, tax litigation, land and buildings transaction tax planning and VAT planning. We also provide tax consultancy services other legal firms, particularly in relation to property tax issues.
Taxation