Abou Jaoude & Associates Awarded ‘Best Arab Law Firm 2011’
Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm has been awarded the coveted 'Best Law Firm of the Year' Award at the prestigious 2011 Arab Achievement Award Ceremony.
The ceremony was the highlight of the 2011 Annual Arab Investment Summit that took place on May 23-24 at the Yas Rotana Hotel in Abu Dhabi. This year’s highly attended summit delivered a focused agenda featuring over 20 expert speakers comprising many of the region's decision and policy makers, investors, financiers and service providers who discussed the various investment opportunities in the fast-growing markets in the Arab world. The Firm was represented by partner Souraya Machnouk whose presentation and panel discussion revolved around the topic “Private Equity: A Gateway to the Renaissance of the Capital Markets”.
Abou Jaoude & Associates was the exclusive award winner from Lebanon which recognizes the Firm’s solid position in the region among other highly respectable regional, UK and U.S. international law firms that were nominated for the Best Law Firm Award. The award reflects the Firm’s distinctive work in the past 12 months on a number of significant and complex transactions in key practice areas such as M&A, banking and finance, real estate and telecommunications, as well as excellence in client service.
Forty-eight awards distinguished the very best following a tough competition between a large number of contenders from various fields such as banking and finance, real estate, education, healthcare, telecom, insurance, hospitality and law. Prominent winners include EMAAR as “Leader in Real Estate”, ETISALAT as “Leader in Telecommunications”, Standard Chartered Bank as “Leader in Islamic Investments” and Qatar National Bank as “Best Investment Bank”.
Souraya Machnouk, the partner representing the Firm as a speaker at the Summit, received the Award and commented: "We are honored to receive this award. Winning this award is a testament of our Firm’s commitment to delivering quality services with added-value in an aim of always exceeding its clients’ expectations. We would like to thank our colleagues who have worked very hard and our clients for their trust and support without which we wouldn’t be where we are today.”
The 'Best Law Firm of the Year' Award comes as the crowning of the Firm’s recent successes and awards including the Firm’s exclusive feature for Lebanon in the prestigious 2011 Leading LAWYER 100 ASIA PACIFIC list and the winning of the Finance Monthly magazine 2011 “Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year” Award in acknowledgement of its thriving M&A and Banking Law practices.
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