Charbel ABI-ANTOUN

Founder and Managing Partner

Charbel Abi-Antoun, Founder and Managing Partner of Beirut Law Firm, has earned broad expertise during more than Twenty years of Practice, with wide knowledge extended from his diverse participation in different legal activities. He has gained various recognitions from people known for their professionalism in the fields of Law or in Business.

Biography

Between 1993 and 1998, Mr. Abi-Antoun was a Judicial Aider and a Head-Clerk of the Instant Court of Beirut, and was assigned twice as a Notary Public in Beirut.
Between 1994 and 1998, he was delegated by the Ministry of Justice to the “Arab Center for Juridical and Judicial Research” for the “Arab Countries’ League” under the auspices of the “Council of the Arab Ministers of Justice”.
In May 2008, he was assigned by the “National Center for State Courts (NCSC) as the “Court Administration Consultant” for “Lebanon Judicial Strengthening Project”, a project developed and managed by and for the “United States Agency for International Development” (USAID).
Besides his Legal diverse engagements, Mr. Abi-Antoun is a Board member of an American-Lebanese Pharmaceutical/ Bio-Chemical Joint-Venture based in Nashville – Tennessee, and Dbayeh – Lebanon; and was, for five consecutive years, a board member of an international IOT leading company based in Los Angeles – California, USA.
For more than thirty years, he participated, with leading roles, in more than 15 charitable and Societal Organizations, such as the Lebanese Red Cross, UNICEF, Terre des Hommes, UNIPADH, and ANU-LIBAN, amongst others.

Practice Areas

Business-Corporate.
M&A, Joint-venture, and Restructuring.
Banking and Finance.
Capital Markets & Securities.
Taxes and Tax Compliance.
Telecommunications and Technology.

Education

Bachelor of Law, Lebanese University.
EMBA, UQAM (Université de Québec à Montréal).
Technology Transfer and IP Licensing, IDLO- Rome (International Development Law Organization).
American and International Business Law, SWIICL (Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law) and CAIL (Center for American and International Law) Plano – Texas, USA.
Currently LLM Student in Oil & Gas Law at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen – UK.

Languages

Arabic / French / English

Affiliations

In June 2017, he was assigned as a Member of the Advisory Board of CAIL (Center of American and International Law), Plano – Texas.
In 2019, he was elected a Council member for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) Region at IACCM (Now “World Commerce & Contracting” (WCC)), a Leading International Contract Management Association based in Connecticut - USA.
In 2022, he was appointed Africa and the Middle East Energy Group Leader at WSG.
In 2023, he was elected Africa and the Middle East Council Member at WSG.