Cyrus Siassi
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales
Attorney at Law, admitted to the Geneva Bar
29, Avenue de Champel - 1206 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 705 10 40
M. +41 79 597 88 30
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.smbclaw.ch
Founding Partner of SMBC Law in Geneva
In association with Hill Dickinson - www.hilldickinson.com
Swiss qualified lawyer, admitted to the Geneva Bar, Switzerland
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales, member of the Law Society of England & Wales, registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority - Higher Rights of Audience
Lloyds Maritime Institute - Certified in Maritime Law & Shipping Contracts
Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) - Certified in Gafta Trade Foundation Course, Contract Terms and Approved Registers, Commodity Shipping, Commodity Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Practitioner – Swiss Arbitration Academy
Diploma in International Maritime Arbitration - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB)
Global Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (CIARB - Oxford)
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) - Accredited Mediator
Civil-Commercial Mediation – Accredited International Civil/Commercial Mediator
Lecturer at the Finance & Banking Institute of, in Geneva, in the fields of international commodities and shipping transactions, Anti-Money Laundering/Corruption and International Embargos/Sanctions, Trade and Export Control Restrictions.
Over twenty years of experience within the Legal & Compliance Departments of Republic National Bank of New-York (HSBC Republic), BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA and ING Belgium, Brussels, Geneva Branch, as Head of Legal, & Compliance of ING/Head of Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Legal Investigation & Legal Financial Security at BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA.
Acts in a broad range of contractual, financial transactions, pre-contentious and contentious matters, international and cross-border complex transactions.
Specialized in International commercial legal and regulatory matters, both under advisory, mediation and (pre) litigation matters, including as Counsel in major international mediations and arbitration matters (SAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA, GAFTA), with a focus on commodities (soft, oil, metal) and shipping transactions.
Memberships:
Swiss Bar Association - https://www.sav-fsa.ch/en/home
Geneva Bar Association - [member of the ADR Committee] - https://odage.ch/fr
Geneva Association of Business Law - https://www.agda.ch/
Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services - https://www.ccig.ch//
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - https://iccwbo.org/
International Bar Association – IBA [member of the Arbitration Committee] - https://www.ibanet.org/
Association of International Business Lawyers - https://www.aibl.ch/
The Law Society (UK) - https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/
Founding Member of the Geneva International Legal Association – GILA - https://www.gila.legal/
Grain And Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) - https://www.gafta.com/
Geneva Propeller Club, Port of Geneva - https://propellerclub-gva.ch/
London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) - https://www.lcia.org/
Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) - https://lmaa.london/
Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) - https://www.scma.org.sg/
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) - https://www.ciarb.org/
Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM) - https://skwm.ch/?lang=en
Geneva Mediation Federation - https://fgem.ch/
Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) - https://sanctionsassociation.org/
Waleed Nihad Arab
Karma Enterprise Co.
Founder, CEO
Waleed Arab, is the CEO & Partner at Karma Enterprise Company-2014-Present- Karma is a company that primarily provides all Corporate services ( MISA, Government relations, Car lease, relocations, bookkeeping among a few of the services offered) to Foreign and Local companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia- Waleed , also owns a last mile logistics Co., where they provide last mile deliveries to customers such as Amazon , Aramex and many more .
Finally, Waleed has a Holding company that invests in the Defence, Tourism and Real Estate industries. Mr. Arab is of Saudi and Spanish origin, was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Switzerland. Mr. Arab was a Director for Quilvest- 2011-2014, an investment, wealth management firm based in the UAE, with offices in Paris, New York, London, Montevideo, and Zurich. He worked for Quilvest as a Director, where he represents the interests of the Bemberg family, an Argentinean/French family and many Saudi families in placement and investments in Private equity investments and wealth management. He began his career at Citibank/SAMBA-1994-2000 as a corporate banker, moving on to private banking managing portfolios and advising Ultra-High net worth individuals in Saudi Arabia, he later wanted to expand his wealth of experience, and joined Unilever-2000-2005, as a brand manager, only to eventually manage the Dove Brand in the Middle East and Africa.
As part of his growth and experience, he joined Philip Morris international in Lausanne, Switzerland – 2005-2007, to manage the strategy of their brands in the Eastern bloc countries. Mr. Arab later decided to come back to the Arab region and took a Marketing Director position for Pepsico International- 2007-2011. Mr. Arab holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, complimented by a Minor in Business administration from Boston University. He is a member of the Advisory Board to Boston University for Saudi Arabia of the Boston
University GCC Alumni Association. He is also a credit Committee Member at Dar Al Eitimad Car finance Company and in Themar Riyadah Co. a Fintech start up in Saudi Arabia