Cyrille Naffah

Cyrille Naffah

Partner & Head of Saudi Practice, Legal Circle (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) / Managing Partner, The Edge (Beirut, Lebanon)

Areas of expertise

Franchising; Distribution, Commercial agencies; TMT; Company formation and Restructuring; M&A

Education
  • DEUG Droit, Montpelier Faculty of Law, Montpelier, France

  • LLM, Institut Supérieur de la Sagesse pour l'Enseignement du Droit (ISSED), Beirut, Lebanon

Memberships

Beirut Bar Association

Biography
  • Cyrille has over 26 years experience in general commercial law and litigation. He is admitted to practice in Lebanon and has practised law in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. His principal areas of expertise are commercial law, distribution, franchising, media, information technology, telecoms, environmental and waste management laws.

  • Cyrille has held senior legal counsel roles with, inter alia, Cisco Systems International BV and SAB International Holding in Saudi Arabia and more recently BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates, a leading regional law firm headquartered in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).