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Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm

Lebanon

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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Chadia El Meouchi
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

25

Number of partners

5

Network memberships

Interleges

Languages

English, French and Arabic

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Financial and corporate
Corporate and M&A
M&A
Firm overview

More than a century old, with offices in Beirut, Doha, and collaboration arrangements for Middle East jurisdictions, Badri and Salim El Meouchi is a leading law firm in Lebanon, Qatar and operating across the Middle East.

The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services, advisory and cross border transaction services, including civil, corporate, commercial, M&A, project finance, privatization, banking and finance, tax, tech, insurance, energy/oil and gas/renewable, PPP, telecommunication, aviation, real estate, construction, criminal, sports, personal status law, as well as litigation and arbitration.

The firm is renowned for excellence, innovation and impact in community work across the region.

Key transactional practices
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Competition
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Hedge funds
  • Investment funds
  • Islamic finance
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity funds
  • Private equity
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
Address:
Tilal Beirut, Block A, Achrafieh
Beirut, 20285603
Lebanon, 11-3577
11-3577
Tel:+961 1 203 245 Fax:+961 1 203 246 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.elmeouchi.com/
Rankings published in 2026
Financial and corporate
Tier 1
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm is a leading firm whose history stretches back to the 19th century when it was founded. Today the firm has offices in Lebanon and Qatar. The firm has prominent Lebanese practitioners led by managing partner Chadia El Meouchi. The firm advises on complex cross-border transactions and co-operates closely with major international law firms. It has a wide sectoral coverage of the most significant sectors in the Lebanese economy.  

 

Highlights  

Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm advised their client, a large industrial company, on their project to develop solar frims in order to meet its energy requirements. The team also assisted the client in procuring the financing for the project as well as engineering, construction, and commissioning of the power plant. The transaction closed in May 2025 and was led by Chadia El Meouchi and Walid Honein.  

 

Key Clients  

European Investment Bank (EIB); CDCI International, Khalil Sholy ; White and Case; Secil SAL / Ciment de Sibline SAL; Banque Misr Liban 

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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
International Finance Corp; Beirut International Airport - Project development
Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm
Lebanon
Project development
Chadia El Meouchi
International Finance Corp, Beirut International Airport
Project company
Leaplearner Inc - Fund raising
2022-02-24
Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm
Lebanon
Fund raising
Chadia El Meouchi
Leaplearner Inc
Fund manager
European Bank for Reconstruction an Development (EBRD): Lebanon Expressway - Project development
2022-02-24
Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm
Lebanon
Project development
Chadia El Meouchi
European Bank for Reconstruction an Development (EBRD): Lebanon Expressway
Lender
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