International Practice Areas

LEBANESE LAW

 

Being a law office related to a Lebanese law firm with a wide array of services and talents amongst their team members, We, at PATANIAN LEGAL and its sister law firm PATANIAN LAW FIRM, which is a Lebanese law firm with both a local and an international dimension and reach, have developed the capacity to serve our clients in the following fields:

 

LEBANESE BUSINESS AND CORPORATE LAWS:

With regards to Lebanese Business and Corporate Laws, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Corporate structures and contracts (Investment MOUs, Shareholders’ Agreements, Merger and Acquisition agreements)

·  Commercial law contracts and documents

·  Commercial debt recovery (negotiating deals, drafting documents, and debt recovery and bankruptcy litigation)

·  Assets liquidation for bankruptcies and estates

·  Franchising agreements

·  Commercial distribution and agency

·  Commercial law and banking law litigation.

 

 

LEBANESE FAMILY AND INHERITANCE LAWS:

With regards to Family and Inheritance Laws, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Family law agreements (prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, divorce, alimony, child custody, visitation rights, guardianship, trusteeship, and incapacity agreements)

·  Family law lawsuits (divorce, alimony, child custody, visitation rights, guardianship, trusteeship, and incapacity lawsuits)

·  Filing and following up formalities, procedures and lawsuits related to personal and civil statuses modification and acquisition (registration of marriages, births, change and rectification of names, places of births, sex and other mention of civil status etc…)

·  Filiation determination procedures, formalities, and lawsuits

·  Adoption procedures

·  Inheritance documents, legal proceedings, and lawsuits (will and testament drafting, judgement of determination of heirs, inheritance and succession lawsuits, liquidation of estates, nomination of liquidators of estates, etc…).

 

LEBANESE TAXATION:

With regards to Taxation, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

· Tax conventions analysis

· Personal, corporate, and labor taxation

· Inheritance taxation

· Optimal personal, corporate and inheritance tax structures

· FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)

· OECD’s CRS / GATCA (Global Account Tax Compliance Act)

· Declaring international income, accounts, and acquired and inherited assets, in Lebanon, to avoid fines and penalties.

 

LEBANESE LABOR LAW:

With regards to Labor Law, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

· Job offers

· Employment contracts

· Collective employment contracts

· Labor Law documents (notices, summons, etc…)

· Employee by-laws

· Employment termination documents and releases

· Representing and assisting clients (both employers and employees) before the Ministry of Labor

· Representing and assisting clients (both employers and employees) before the Labor Arbitration Council (labor court)

· Representing and assisting clients (both employers and employees) in their files, procedures, and inspection procedures before the National Fund of Social Security.

 


LEBANESE CIVIL LAW:

With regards to Civil Law, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Drafting and negotiating non-commercial and civil contracts and documents

·  Non-commercial and civil debt recovery

·  Non-commercial and civil law legal proceedings and litigation.

 

LEBANESE REAL ESTATE LAW:

With regards to Real Estate Laws, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Real estate contracts, agreements and documents drafting (sale and purchase of properties, mortgages and securities, caveat, long term leases, plotting of properties, properties’ exchange, liquidation of indivision and joint ownership of properties, etc…)

·  Real estate formalities filing and follow up (registration of real estate properties, registration of real estate securities, plotting properties, execution of all other real estate contracts and formalities)

·  All sorts of real estate lawsuits.

 


LEBANESE PENAL AND CRIMINAL LAW:

With regards to Penal Law, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Penal and criminal litigation both as defense lawyers and as plaintiff lawyers

·  Family Law penal cases

·  Penal and criminal bankruptcy cases

·  International penal and criminal procedures (Interpol cases, money laundering cases, etc…)

·  Business Law penal cases

·  Forfeiture of penal and criminal judgements



LEBANESE INSURANCE LAW:

With regards to Insurance Law, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

·  Representing insurance companies, brokers, policy holders, and/or insureds in negotiating the policies and their conditions and exclusions, 

·  Drafting insurance and re-insurance clauses

·  Drafting insurance and brokerage agreements

·  Insurance and re-insurance premiums recovery

·  Dealing with the regulators on behalf of insurance companies and brokers

·  All sorts of insurance litigation.

 

TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY LAWS:

 

With regards to Technologies and Privacy Laws, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

· Technology laws

· E-commerce

· Artificial intelligence

· Privacy laws, regulations, policies, and privacy impact assessment

· Cybersecurity

· Cryptocurrencies

· Digital assets

· Digital and electronic proof, etc…

 

14)        LEBANESE ARBITRATION:

With regards to Arbitration, we can provide you, inter alia, with the following services:

 

· Representing parties in arbitration procedures

· Representing parties before courts in arbitration award appeal or annulment procedures

· Acting as arbitrator in arbitration procedures.

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