News / Saadé legal battle flares up again as a court orders freeze of subsidiary's assets

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The decades-long struggle for control of shipping line CMA CGM between brothers Jacques and Johnny Saadé appears to have reignited in the Middle East, after decisions handed down by a court in Syria.

This was followed by an executive board in Beirut ruling that the assets of Jacques Saadé should be seized.

In 2011 and 2013, in Lebanon and France respectively, courts ruled in favour of Jacques Saadé, but last month a court of appeal in Syria ruled in favour of Johnny ...