Rabeh Matar is a founding partner and the current Managing Partner of Levant Law Practice. He was previously a partner at Mattar & Mattar Law Firm from 1983 till 2002. He acted as internal legal counsel of a leading Lebanese investment bank from 1998 till 2002.

Rabeh is specialized in commercial and banking law, corporate structuring and finance. He also has extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation. He assisted banks and investment companies in corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, and business acquisitions.

Rabeh’s sample transactions include the merger of a leading Lebanese commercial bank and a major financial institution; acquisition of a group of FMCG companies by a group of Lebanese and Arab investors; conflict resolution between shareholders in several industrial gas companies in the Gulf; the establishment of a real estate hospitality fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; structuring the expansion to Egypt, Libya and Algeria of a leading FMCG Lebanese group of companies; negotiating the acquisition of a major stake in a Lebanese commercial bank; advising a major Saudi group on a real estate hospitality development in Beirut; commercial litigation and mediation in London and the Cayman Islands in relation to a cross-border dispute.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Beirut Bar Association since 1983.

Education

• 1982, LL.B., Lebanese University, Faculty of Laws and Political Sciences, Lebanon.
• 1980-1981, read for Masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
• 1979, B.A. in Economics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Languages

Arabic, English, French (working proficiency).