Founded in 2003 by its current Managing Partners, Amer Kanaan and Mohamad El Hajj, Hajj & Kanaan is a client-focused boutique law firm. With its comprehensive legal support in a wide variety of practice areas, Hajj and Kanaan takes pride in its dedicated team of specialized attorneys and its unique approach to providing high-quality legal services and tailor-made solutions to meet specific client needs.

In its aim to set itself apart from the immense competition of law firms in the region, Hajj and Kanaan emphasizes a unique personalized-approach and customized solutions to every case and challenge it undertakes.

Its dynamic team of specialized attorneys constantly offers extensive, well-acquired experience and knowledge to clients in the wide range of practice areas they excel in. In an attempt to adjust to the already established areas of practice and the newly emerging ones, Hajj and Kanaan has divided its office space into different departments each managed and operated by a team of highly qualified specialists. Hajj & Kanaan’s team of attorneys includes PHD holders, university instructors and highly specialized lawyers who operate individually and as a team to achieve excellence. 

A Special Tribute to Judge Zahi Kanaan

an icon of the Lebanese Judicial System

Judge Zahi Kanaan contributed in establishing Hajj & Kanaan back in 2003. After graduating from the Lebanese University in 1964, Judge Kanaan was appointed a judge looking into civil and criminal cases from 1966 until 1971, when he became a Public Attorney in the General Prosecution of Appeal in Beirut until 1990 and this before heading the Beirut Court's Indictment Division until 2002.