Introduction to new Law Firm Member in Lebanon

Walid Abou Farhat is a  Partner at Abou Farhat Law Offices – Lebanon. He has been involved for the past 8 years with various Copyright and telecommunication deals: He has been involved in GSM business in Africa on behalf of Hits Telecom and in Mobile TV deals with 3G3M a Norwegian investment. In 2003 he actively participated in the creation of the first music Publishing company in Lebanon “OMP”. In 2007 he acted as senior Legal advisor to O-Media of Egypt and actively participated in discussions pertaining to a joint-venture with Warner Group. He legally assisted Melody Group of Companies, Rotana Audiovisual & other key Media players in Middle East & North Africa. Currently he is retained by telecom Aggregators as ARPU+(Egypt) an Orascom telecom subsidiary, Qanawat (United Arab Emirates) and Yala Music (France).

 

He also acts on behalf of many authors’ right holders, Artists and Labels as Alam El Pham (Egypt) and other important Publishers whether in the music or book fields ( E.W.E-MP, Fairwood, Universal-Taksim, EMI Music Arabia, Backstage Production, In2musica ). Walid Abou Farhat has been actively involved in workshops with Copyright Unit at Arab League and WIPO and did several presentations related to Collective management and Copyright enforcement. He is also actively involved with SACEM to establish efficient collective management in the Arabic World Abou Farhat Law Offices works with Kilani Law Firm in Jordan and co-operate with Mobayed-Abou Farhat legal consultancy and Ali Habib Law Firm and associates in United Arab Emirates.”

Abou Farhat Law offices have been nominated to be recommended as being the legal expert in Lebanon for Entertainment law in 2010 By Global Law experts and won the award to be the best Media law firm for 2011. It also has been chosen by Corp Intl to have the exclusive Entertainment position for Lebanon.

If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Abou directly or with the International Referral head office for an introduction.