Mr Mazen M. Tumi > Tumi Law Firm > Tripoli, Libya > Lawyer Profile

Mr Mazen M. Tumi

+218 (0) 91 00 16 256 mmtumi@tumilawfirm.com

Work Department

Managing Partner

Position

Mazen co-founded Tumi Law Firm to put his comprehensive understanding and experience of corporate and commercial law in the hands of TLF clients.

As an experienced legal advisor and qualified lawyer before all courts in Libya, he can provide clients with the best insight and guidance. Whether their legal and business issues bring opportunity, risk or disruption, he is well positioned to help them to overcome the challenges of competing in an everchanging economic order.

As a dual Libyan American citizen with full rights of audience before all courts, including the Supreme Court as a licensed specialist in corporate and commercial law, Mazen has served as Managing Partner at TLF for the past 15 years.

Career

• Advised and negotiated an international acquisition transaction of oil and gas companies in the Middle East and Africa that were valued collectively at $150 million for the U.S. Energy Group.
• Represented the Libyan Long Term Investment Portfolio in a transaction valued at 2.2 billion Euro.
• Acted for and worked with international partners such as Allen & Overy, DLA Piper Baker & McKenzie LLP, Dentons LLP, King and Wood, Holman Fenwick Willan LLP, Pinsent Masons LLP, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Two Birds, and Altamimi.
• Full rights of audience before the Supreme Court as a licensed specialist in corporate and commercial law.
• Provided dispute resolution on a series of public/private agreements between the Libyan government and an international engineering and construction company.
• Islamic Finance Project; a global financial institution based in Bahrain, in the creation of a Master Murabaha agreement.

• Areas of previous practice

  • Agreements
  • Infrastructure contracts
  • Service agreements
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Employment, benefits such as pension and insurance
  • Business immigration matters.
  • Day-to-day commercial issues that companies may face
  • Agency and representation concern
• Consumer law matters
• Managing employee terminations
• Exit negotiations
• Employment contracts
• Executive compensation and benefits
• Workplace policies
• Workplace grievances and investigations
• Ethics and compliance
• Safety and health
• Work injury claims.

Languages

Arabic, Mr. Mazen speak English fluently.

Memberships

• Libyan Bar Association
• Arab Lawyers Union
• Arab Institute of Arbitration

Education

• LLB, University of Tripoli Libya
• BA Business Administration Tripoli Libya
• LLM (Distinction) University of East London UK

Personal

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Protection of employer trade secrets / Confidential information / HR personal data protection / Industrial relations and collective bargaining / Global mobility and immigration / Start-ups and newly established Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIEs) on M&A and restructuring matters / Mergers and acquisitions / Joint ventures / Concessions – EPSA, DEPSA, and EPC agreements / MOUs / Project finance and securitization / Onward investments / Commercial disputes.