Mr. Elias Bou Khalil
PARTNER
Mr. Elias Bou Khalil is a Partner at Mohammed Al Hashimi Advocates and Legal Consultants.
With more than 14 years of experience in the UAE, he started his career with an American law firm in Paris where he practiced for several years. He had the opportunity to work on contentious and non-contentious matters such as cross border matters and legal actions between Paris, the United Kingdom and New York.
Mr. Bou Khalil also assists multinationals on several corporate governance matters varying from establishing manuals, internal policies and processes, whistleblowing procedures, codes of ethics, authority matrices and other relevant documents in the governance field. On the financial / business side, he also assists national and international borrowers, finance companies, trustees etc. in resolving banking law issues, and is usually consulted for matters like merger and acquisitions, corporate debt, syndicated loans, project financing or settlement, asset-based financing, etc…to name few examples. Amongst his clients, Elias helps multinational pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, financial institutions, medical products companies, and private clients
Latest Achievements:
Mr. Bou Khalil’s most interesting cross border transactions and corporate matters entailed legal action/s (both at the judiciary and arbitration levels) filed in New York with ramifications in France and the middle east, with corporate matters relating to Chinese multinationals in Africa, restructuring of distribution networks in Europe and Africa, distribution disputes between middle eastern distributors and American / European suppliers (German, Dutch, French, English etc…), and disputes involving multinational financial institutions. Elias has acted as an arbitrator and counsel in arbitration cases in the UAE in relation to real estate disputes.
Language(s):
- Arabic, French and English
Educational Background:
- Law Degree (Saint Joseph University – Beirut – Lebanon)
- Master’s degree in Private and Public law (Saint Joseph University – Beirut – Lebanon)
Post graduate degree D.E.A in private law (Sorbonne – Paris I – France)
Comparative law, (Assas – Paris II – France)
Membership(s):
- Member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana in India.
- Member of the Paris Bar
- Member of the Beirut Bar
- Legal consultant with the Dubai legal affairs department