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Hyam El Hachem advises businesses and individuals through the firm she established in 1996, drawing on longstanding commercial experience and work across jurisdictions.
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Hyam El Hachem graduated in law from the Lebanese University in 1990 and received her diploma in 1991. She registered as a trainee lawyer with the Beirut Bar Association in 1992 and completed her professional training at Awada Tyan Law Firm in Beirut between 1992 and 1996. In 1996, she became an attorney-at-law and established Hyam El Hachem Law Firm in Beirut. She expanded her practice to the United Arab Emirates in 2005.
Grounded in Lebanese law, her practice spans commercial, property, family and inheritance matters with international dimensions. Her experience includes French-law, English common-law and Gulf legal contexts, informing her attention to governing law, jurisdiction, contractual protections and the coordination of advice across borders.
From 2011 to 2023, she worked in partnership with Bayat Group as an Associate Partner, providing legal and business services in real estate and commercial matters. Her co-authored publications from 2020 form part of this period of her career.
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Hyam completed four years of professional training at Awada Tyan Law Firm, a leading commercial law firm in Beirut, from 1992 to 1996.
Registered with the Beirut Bar Association as a trainee lawyer in 1992, she qualified as an attorney-at-law and established her own firm in 1996.
Selected organizations and individuals Hyam has advised over the course of her career.
International holding company
Global ventilation group
Trade & investment · Dubai office
Professional work for Saeed Said Al Ghurair has included business compliance studies and commercial litigation.
Hyam El Hachem has worked on family, inheritance and other legal matters encompassing more than one jurisdiction. This experience complements her work in cross-border business, commercial disputes and real estate.
The international dimension deserves attention from the outset: where the people and assets are located, which documents exist, and whether proceedings are already under way. The firm considers these connections alongside the personal and commercial circumstances of each matter.
Family relationships and disputes involving people, documents or proceedings connected to different countries.
Succession questions where family members, estate assets or relevant documents are connected to more than one jurisdiction.
Transactions, business relationships and disputes that require consideration of more than one legal system.
Justice elevates nations.
Beirut, known in antiquity as Berytus, was a renowned centre of Roman legal learning. Its law school inspired the city’s enduring association with the phrase Berytus nutrix legum — Beirut, nurse of laws. For a firm founded in Beirut, that heritage offers a quiet symbol of learning, responsibility and justice.
Historical reference · Saint Joseph University (PDF)In her public professional writing, Hyam connects legal work with the client’s reputation, responsibilities and future. That outlook gives the practice a personal point of reference: careful attention to both the legal question and its practical consequences.
From legal education and professional training to an independent practice spanning Lebanon and the UAE.
Graduated in law from the Lebanese University.
Received her law diploma.
Registered as a trainee lawyer with the Beirut Bar Association in 1992 and completed her professional training at Awada Tyan Law Firm in Beirut.
Became an attorney-at-law and established Hyam El Hachem Law Firm in Beirut.
Expanded her practice to the United Arab Emirates.
Worked as an Associate Partner, providing legal and business services in real estate and commercial matters.
Co-authored the Saint Lucia chapter of The Corporate Immigration Review with Sam M Bayat.
SourceContinues to advise businesses and individuals through the firm she founded in 1996.
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Open the client guideHer approach was always respectful, knowledgeable, and highly professional.
…quickly understood my situation, providing me with a clear and effective solution.
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