Corporate & commercial · Beirut
Companies, formed and kept in order.
Incorporation, the amendments that follow, the filings nobody warned you about, and the contracts in between.
Incorporation
Four companies, formed end to end.
Each of these is set up on its own site, start to finish, with the government fees shown separately.
Lebanese Offshore
For clients outside Lebanon
Exempt from tax on profit, and nothing withheld on what it pays you. One shareholder is enough, and that shareholder can be foreign.
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Lebanese SARL
For trading inside Lebanon
The default for most companies. One partner is enough since Law 126/2019, and capital starts at LBP 5,000,000, about US$56.
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Lebanese SAL
For shareholders and regulated work
Joint stock, with a board and shares that transfer. The only form open to banking, insurance and scheduled air transport.
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Lebanese Holding
For owning other companies
Holds participations rather than trading in its own right. Nothing withheld on what it distributes to you.
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Maintenance
And keeping it in order.
A company creates obligations from the day it is registered, whether or not it trades. These two come up most, and both are handled here.
Amendments
When something changes
A new manager, a new object, more capital, a partner leaving. Anything that alters what the registry holds has to go back through it, and late filings attract penalties.
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Annual compliance
Keeping it in good standing
Assemblies, Ministry of Finance filings, auditor coordination and the registry calendar. You are told what is due before it is due, not after.
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Contracts, negotiation and disputes are corporate and commercial work too. If what you need is not one of the six above, describe it in an email.
Which one
It comes down to where your clients are.
Not size, not ambition. Everything else follows.
about $560 a year
about $335
about $56
about $335
about $335 of capital
A summary, not advice. What suits you depends on what you actually do.
Who you're working with
Gracia Hobeich
Lawyer · Corporate & commercial
I set up companies for people whose work crosses a border. Engineers and consultants billing clients abroad, small studios with foreign contracts, founders who need a clean entity before anyone will wire them money.
Lebanese incorporation is not difficult so much as unforgiving. A signature in the wrong colour pen, a certificate nobody told you to request, and you lose a month. My job is to make sure that month never happens to you.
It also helps to know the room. The registry, the notaries and the banks are the same people year after year, and my family has worked with them a long time.
Licensed by the Beirut Bar Association.
Start with an email.
Tell us what you are building and where your clients are. You will get a straight answer on which structure fits and what it costs. If we are not right for it, you will hear that too.
Replies within one business day. Arabic, English or French.