Scaling a technology company in the MENA region requires more than capital and a good product — it requires a legal architecture built for rapid growth and regulatory scrutiny. A poorly drafted software license, a mismanaged data flow, or a generic terms-of-service agreement can stall a funding round or expose your founders to direct liability.
Jurdi & Co operates from Downtown Beirut, providing startups, scale-ups, and established IT enterprises with the legal infrastructure to build, protect, and monetize their technology across Lebanon and the wider Middle East.
Structuring the Tech Enterprise
We build the commercial contract stack a growing tech company actually runs on — master service agreements, statements of work, data processing agreements, and vendor and procurement contracts — engineered around your intellectual property rather than adapted from a generic template. Because Lebanon's civil-law tradition does not automatically vest IP created by a contractor or freelance developer in the company that commissioned it, every engagement includes a written assignment that closes that gap before it becomes a dispute.
SaaS Agreements & Cloud Licensing
We draft and negotiate SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS agreements — license grants, service-level commitments, uptime and liability caps — suited to the region rather than copied from a US or European template, and align revenue recognition with legal delivery obligations to protect your cash flow from early termination disputes.
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Compliance
We audit data flows, draft data processing agreements, build privacy policies, and prepare incident response and breach-notification plans under Lebanon's Law No. 81/2018 on Electronic Transactions and Personal Data — a separate compliance layer from the GDPR that requires its own attention to local data-localization rules, particularly where customer data is hosted outside Lebanon.
Intellectual Property & Source Code Protection
We structure the full chain of title behind a software platform: securing IP generated by independent contractors and offshore development teams, drafting technology transfer and licensing agreements, and confirming that open-source components and third-party libraries in your stack don't carry license terms that conflict with a future acquisition or funding round.
AI & Emerging Technology Governance
As MENA regulators begin drawing lines around automated decision-making and the data used to train models, we help technology companies build AI use into their contracts and compliance posture from the start — vendor and data-licensing terms for AI tools, liability allocation for AI-assisted outputs, and disclosure obligations where automated systems interact with customers or their data.
Expanding Across the MENA Region
We handle cross-border software licensing, localization of consumer terms, and compliance audits for FinTech, MedTech, and e-commerce platforms — for Lebanese companies expanding outward and foreign enterprises entering the Lebanese market.
In Practice
Jurdi & Co delivers practical, commercially driven legal strategies for tech companies — protecting intellectual property, ensuring compliance with Lebanese and regional data laws, and structuring contracts to accelerate growth rather than slow it down.
Contact Your Technology Law Firm in Lebanon
Contact Jurdi & Co to draft or review a SaaS agreement, audit your data privacy compliance, structure IP ownership before a funding round, or prepare for cross-border expansion.