Ramy Torbey

Ramy’s prac­tice en­com­pass­es a broad ar­ray of cor­po­rate tax is­sues, struc­tured fi­nance tran­s­ac­tions, joint ven­tures and cross bor­der tran­s­ac­tions; his tran­s­ac­tio­n­al ex­pe­ri­ence in­cludes high-pro­file ac­qui­si­tions and re­or­gani­za­tions of banks, an oil deri­va­tives plant, a ce­ment fac­to­ry, tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, touris­tic ven­tures, and sev­er­al busi­ness/resi­den­tial land­marks in the Mid­dle East and in Eu­rope. Fur­ther­more, he has been ad­vis­ing banks and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions on their day-to-day reg­u­la­to­ry and com­pliance mat­ters, and on their ac­qui­si­tion and use of the most re­cent plas­tic card and mo­bile pay­ment tech­nol­o­gy.

His clients’ list in­clude lo­cal and in­ter­na­tio­n­al banks, fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, cred­it card com­pa­nies, pay­ment gate­ways, loy­al­ty pro­grams, pri­vate equi­ty firms, hold­ing com­pa­nies, man­u­fac­tur­ers, com­mer­cial dis­trib­u­tors, IT ser­vice providers, en­er­gy com­pa­nies, con­struc­tion com­pa­nies, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies, and hos­pi­tal­i­ty ven­tures…

Ramy has pub­­lished ar­ti­­cles about sev­er­al le­­gal sub­­­jects, in­­­clud­ing se­cu­ri­ties, hedge funds, cor­po­rate fi­­nanc­ing, in­­­for­­ma­­tion tech­nol­o­­gy and Al­ter­­na­­tive Dis­­­pute Re­s­o­lu­­tion (ADR). He gave lec­­tures and train­ings on var­i­ous top­ics in­­­clud­ing busi­­ness reg­is­­tra­­tion and pro­tec­­tion, Sharia com­­pliant pro­­jects (Is­lam­ic fi­­nance), and ADR in Beirut, Gene­­va and Rome. He served as the Le­ba­­nese Le­­gal Ex­pert for a Eu­­ro­­pean Com­mis­­sion ADR pro­­ject in the Mid­­dle-East and North Afri­­ca, im­­ple­­men­t­ed by an in­­ter­­na­­tio­n­al con­­sor­ti­um led by the ADR Cen­ter in Ita­­ly from 2005 un­til 2008.

Ramy is cur­ren­t­­ly serv­ing as board mem­ber and le­­gal ad­vi­­sor to a num­ber of lo­­cal and in­­ter­­na­­tio­n­al groups, com­­pa­nies and NGOs. He is a mem­ber of the Beirut Bar As­­so­­ci­a­­tion since 2002, a past mem­ber of its IT Com­mit­­tee and a cur­rent mem­ber of its oil and gas com­mit­­tee.

Ed­u­­ca­­tion:

Saint Joseph Uni­ver­si­­ty (Le­banon) and Uni­ver­si­­ty Paris II-Pan­théon-As­sas (France), Mas­ter of Ad­­vanced Studies (DEA) in Bank­ing and Fi­­nan­­cial Mar­kets Law, 2003. Th­e­­sis: “Le­­gal As­pects of De­­posi­­tary Re­­ceipts in Com­­par­a­­tive Law”.

Ecole Supérieure des Af­­faires (Le­banon) and Ecole Su­perieure de Com­merce de Paris (ESCP) Eu­­rope (France), MBA, 2002. Th­e­­sis: “Fi­­nanc­ing the De­vel­op­­ment of SMEs in Le­banon”.

Saint Joseph Uni­ver­si­­ty (Le­banon), Mas­ters in Pri­­vate& Public Law, 2001.
Saint Joseph Uni­ver­si­­ty (Le­banon) and Mon­t­pel­li­er I Uni­ver­si­­ty (France), Di­­plo­­ma in IT/IP Law, 2000.

Lan­guages:

Ara­bic, French , and En­glish