EMEA Legal Counsels is an International legal practice group composed of a team of lawyers coming from diverse backgrounds with top ranked academic profiles and experience in various environments and countries. The group provides exhaustive legal services to local, regional and International clients and assists them in their investments across Lebanon, the Middle East and Europe.With offices in Beirut, Athens, Brescia, Amman and Kuwait City, the group is considered a fast growing, aggressive and spirited legal practice. The firm portfolio is increasingly expanding on the international scale, it acted for the NASCO Insurance Group in Amman, Dubai & Abu Dhabi successfully handling complex cases for the group throughout the years 2015 and 2016. Managing Partner Alaa Zeineddine has a well-established cross border dispute resolution practice. He recently acted for Universal Travel Management & Network for a US $ 700 K transaction in Lebanon. Alaa also represented Mourabet Engineering for an 8.4 Million EUROS case settlement in Equatorial Guinea in 2015 and 2016. He also worked with Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and Arabtec in 2015 advising on legal matters regarding the Abu Dhabi Plaza project in Astana, Kazakhstan and worked closely with Honeywell in the UAE on the new CCB & HMI upgrade project for the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company in 2014. He advised on several projects and legal matters in Kuwait including substation divisions and Clean Fuel Project in 2015 and 2016. In 2016, Alaa was hosted as a visiting lecturer at the IE University in Madrid and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

• Advising on legal risks related to the business activities.• Reviewing, interpreting, analyzing, and negotiating contractual and tender documents related to construction and engineering, commercial and general domestic and International agreements.• Processing domestic and international legal matters.• Drafting, developing, structuring of contracts including consortium agreements, joint-ventures, subcontracts, confidentiality agreements, settlement release, riders, memorandum of understandings, consultancy agreements, services agreements and a wide range of other commercial contracts.• Providing legal terms for use in creation of tenders, proposals, negotiations and drafting agreements.• Travelling to other area offices including Europe and the Gulf, for terms negotiations, claims settlement, coordination and verification of contract terms implementation.• Conduct of contractual negotiations for construction bidding for civil, oil and gas, and mechanical projects. • Claims negotiations and supervision of court and arbitration proceedings.• Instructing and supervising external solicitors in litigation and other legal matters.• Advising on corporate and commercial law, corporate restructuring, and establishment of companies.