Updates

January 2016 – Investment

El Chaer Law Firm structured an investment project in the British Virgin Islands and advised a Lebanese offshore company on early stage investment, specifically on the private placement of series seed preferred stock and series A convertible preferred stock rounds aiming to reach an aggregate amount of investment equivalent to $7.3 million.
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December 2015 – Arbitration

El Chaer Law Firm and one of its strategic allies in France, Archipel law firm, represented in July 2015 Commissions Import Export S.A. (Commisimpex) against the Republic of Congo before the Paris District court concerning a request submitted by the RoC for obtaining the exequatur of a judgement rendered fraudulently by the Brazzaville Court against […]
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November 2015 – Corporate

El Chaer Law Firm advised an international financial services entity, based in Delaware that intends to enter into a trade related loan agreement amounting to $ 12million with a Lebanese financial institution to facilitate the import and/or export of commodities and goods by the entity’s clients.
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October 2015 – Arbitration

El Chaer Law Firm has been appointed as legal counsel of a Qatari construction company for the purpose of representing it in an arbitration proceeding before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) concerning a disputed amount of 43 million (forty three million US dollars) in this high hazard industry.
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September 2015 – U.S. Sanction Law

El Chaer Law Firm’s notification to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has been approved for legal representation in order to provide legal advice and sound counsel on delisting an international business man placed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) as per the OFAC regulations.
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July 2015 – Litigation

El Chaer Law Firm, with its strategic ally White & Case represented its client Commisimpex against the Republic of Congo before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Republic of Congo has submitted a motion to vacate the enforcement judgment of a 2013 arbitral award rendered in the United States. On […]
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