Our Firm

EAJ Law Firm has been founded in 1965 by Lawyer Joseph Estephan Abou Jaoudeh, in Beirut, with a mission to offer various legal services that combine comprehensive knowledge of local and interational law, and, a modernized, progressive approach to legal practice.

Today, our access to key local authorities, and our solid legal expertise, across a broad spectrum of industries, differentiate us as being one of the very few headquartered legal practices to have exceeded their original boundaries.

The success story behind EAJ Law firm growth and sustainability is our innovative legal minds team, emphasizing on details, possessing extensive regional experience, and local rights of audience before all courts in the jurisdictions areas where we operate, and the support network of our connections in other jurisdictions areas.

EAJ Law firm has been operating as a powerful entity in the legal advisory market for the past 50 years. We believe that, the three basic pillars “professionalism, effectiveness, and strategic approach to tackle the complexity of legal services “, constitute the fundaments of our legal counselling, and the basis behind our success

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Practice areas

Corporate Law

Construction Law

Our team detains an advanced knowledge in laws and regulations to provide a full range of tailored corporate solutions, at regional and international levels.

Our Corporate scope of services includes:

- Full Legal support

- Implementation of corporate governance principles

Restructuring of companies

- Due diligence according to the scope of business

- Legal support for risk management mergers and acquisitions

Construction Law

We provide a full spectrum of legal support in the construction industry, as well as, a dynamic legal representation in a wide range of dispute resolution proceedings.

As part of our risk assessment services, we provide our clients with indispensable guidance; providing legally watertight secured, and local-law compliant contracts i.e. FIDIC and ICC contracts.

Employment Law

Construction Law

Real Estate Law

We provide guidance to multinational, regional, and local employers, in all jurisdictions, enabling them to adapt their internal policies and procedures to the requirements of local regulations.

Due to our expertise in corporate support, due diligence, compliance and litigation, legal support is given to multinational and regional companies on policies, procedures, and contractual documentation, for all staff levels, including management, service and employment contracts.

Real Estate Law

Financial Crimes

Real Estate Law

Due to our experience in all areas of transactions, investment, and development; we provide complete legal guidance in a varied set of activities involving rent, sales and acquisitions, title, land use, joint ventures, restructuring and workouts taking into consideration the environmental, construction, Litigation, and Banking & Finance aspects. Our service concerns legal and consultancy matters, on local, and regional property developments.

Financial Crimes

Our Fraud team was created to protect our clients’ interests, when involved in across boarders or local transactions of all shapes and sizes.

Due to our advanced knowledge of Middle Eastern laws, international best practice, and our extensive understanding of the corporate market, we can help identify malpractice, and illegal activities, before encountering, or even before it affects your business interests.

Our lawyers can get involved at any stage of your business process. While prevention is always better than cure, if you have already encountered any fraudulent activity, our team is ready to interfere to limit damage and see justice being done.

Litigation

Financial Crimes

We represent our clients in disputes arising from banking, insurance, and finance, commercial agreements, construction and real estate, employment, hospitality, media, healthcare, and education.

We are proud to offer each of our clients, a dedicated contact, throughout the progression of their case to ensure that clients are kept up to date on advancements regularly, noting that our clients are satisfied by this immediate contact enabling them to have a personal and trusted advisor reachable at all times.