Personal bio
Marwan Sakr is a co-founding partner of Sakr, Awwad, Abi Najem & Sakr (SAAS) Lawyers|Avocats in Beirut, Lebanon. He was called to the Bar in Beirut (1989) and Paris (2006) and admitted as an advocate before the DIFC Courts in Dubai (2009). He became a Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb, UK) in 2011 and is licensed as Legal Consultant in the UAE (RAK) since 2017. He has been appointed Specialist Counsel (Avocat spécialiste) in International, European and Arab laws by the French National Council of the Bar (CNB) in 2020. His practice encompasses commercial and international work and disputes (especially international arbitration and litigation), banking and financial law, insurance and reinsurance, commercial agencies, corporate law, conflict of laws and jurisdictions, public law and government contracts, foreign investments, intellectual property, infrastructure projects (construction, oil, telecommunications, Turnkey and BOT projects), joint ventures, project finance and European and Middle Eastern laws. He has advised and appeared as counsel and expert witness in arbitration proceedings in relation with these matters under various laws and jurisdictions (France, England and Wales, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, OHADA, countries) and arbitration rules (ICC, ICSID, CRCICA, BCCI, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, QICCA and UNCITRAL).