Dr. Sylvain W. Massaad
Managing Attorney
Dr. Massaad is the Managing Attorney of the firm. He is a senior legal counsel, registered with the Beirut Bar Association, with over seventeen years of practice at the intersection of banking law, financial crime risk, and institutional governance.
Dr. Massaad currently serves as the Head of Compliance at Banque du Liban, Lebanon's central bank, where he has led the design and implementation of enterprise-wide AML/CFT and sanctions frameworks aligned with FATF standards, overseeing regulatory affairs, data protection, and institutional risk across financial and monetary policy operations and the supervised financial sector.
He is a Lecturer at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut, where he has taught Business Law since 2019, and a member of Lebanon's Technical Committee supporting the Ministerial Committee for Combating Corruption.
His published works span banking regulation, financial crime, and anti-corruption, including two monographs on banking law and financial regulation and other legal subjects.
Credentials
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) - ACAMS
Advanced CAMS - Financial Crime Investigations - ACAMS
Licensed Arbitrator - Lebanese Arbitration and Mediation Center
Mediation Certification - LAMAC
Attorney at Law - Beirut Bar Association
Member - International Bar Association
Member - European Law Institute
Member - International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Member - Council for Policy & Regulation, MENA Fintech Association (UAE)
PhD in Law, Université de Poitiers (France)
MBA, ESCP Business School, Paris (France)
Working languages: English, French, Arabic