Mr Simon El Kai > Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm > Beirut, Lebanon > Lawyer Profile
Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm Offices
OMT BUILDING - 266 SAMI EL SOLH AVENUE
PO BOX 116-5079, BEIRUT MUSEUM 1106-2010
BEIRUT
Lebanon
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Mr Simon El Kai
Work Department
Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Licensing, Agency & Distributorships, Media, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Arbitration, Real Estate & Construction, Employment & Benefits
Position
Partner
Career
Simon El Kai is a partner at Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm, and heads the Corporate and the Litigation practice. He previously worked with two leading law firms in Lebanon, and at Shearman & Sterling in Paris.
Simon has more than 20 years of experience and an extensive multidisciplinary expertise covering advisory, transactional and dispute-resolution matters. He has a long-standing record advising high-profile clients on corporate matters, commercial transactions, and dispute resolutions, and has a profound knowledge of the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry.
Simon is recognized as a Leading Lawyer by Chambers & Partners and is Recommended by The Legal 500.
Languages
Arabic, French and English
Memberships
- Admitted to the Beirut Bar Association
- Member of the International Bar Association
Education
- JD in Private Law, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon (with honors)
- Advanced Graduate Degree (DEA) in Private Law, University of Paris II-Assas, France
- Master of Laws (LLM), Columbia University, USA
Personal
- Co-author of the Lebanon chapter of the Inward Investment & International Taxation Review published by The Law Reviews and edited by Latham & Watkins USA
- Contributor to the World Bank Lebanon Doing Business Reports on “Starting a Business”
Lawyer Rankings
Lebanon > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm
‘s ‘professional, reliable and efficient‘ corporate team continues to be instructed in high-profile acquisitions, multi-jurisdiction restructurings and joint ventures in the financial, tech, consumer goods and pharmaceuticals sectors. In a recent matter, Souraya Machnouk
and Carlos Abou Jaoude advised a Lebanese-Swedish consortium on a private placement for a first-of-its kind start-up tech project; the duo lead the practice with Simon El Kai and Ibrahim Barraj.
Lebanon > Dispute resolution
The disputes team at Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm is very well known for acting in high-profile arbitrations, with a solid track record in appearing in ICC and ICSID disputes in Paris and London. In a recent matter, the group advised Lebanese bank IBL on successfully preventing the enforcement of an arbitral award in a major US$100 million arbitration case against Iraq Telecom. Litigator Simon El Kai and Rania Khoury, who fields extensive expertise in international arbitration, jointly head up the practice along with managing partner Carlos Abou Jaoude.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Real estate and construction (including projects)
- Tax