About

M1 Group is a family-owned Lebanese investment company, with origins in the construction and telecom sectors. Because the Group today operates in a diverse range of sectors in countries across the globe through its subsidiaries, its general counsel is highly knowledgeable and adaptable when understanding the company’s business needs and accommodating a plethora of regulatory regimes. After May Khalife was appointed general counsel, she immediately set about restructuring the legal department in order to align it with the Group. Since then, Khalife has assisted M1 Group on a number of key deals; in 2015 the company acquired a majority stake in fashion brand Pepe Jeans Group with L Capital Asia, an Asian private equity fund. A year later M1 Group’s food and beverage subsidiary, MNM Investments, was granted the franchise rights to launch multiple locations in Lebanon for ice cream maker Cold Stone Creamery under a 10-year master franchise agreement. In 2017, M1 Group’s other subsidiary M1 Financial Technologies agreed to buy Bank Audi’s electronic payment and card services business in a deal worth $185m.