Rania Khoury
Partner, Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm
Arbitration
Intellectual Property
Entertainment Law
Franchising
Master I in Private Law, University of Nanterre-Paris X (with honors).
Master II (DESS) in Intellectual Property Law, University of Paris II-Assas (with honors).
Master II (DEA) in English and North American Business Law, University of Sorbonne-Paris I (with honors).
Admitted to the Paris Bar (with highest honors).
Member of the International Bar Association.
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Delegate member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR for the mandate 2024-2027.
Member of the ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings in Paris.
Rania Khoury is a partner at Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm, and heads the Arbitration practice. Before joining the Firm, she worked at prestigious law firms in Paris, such as Dentons, Gide Loyrette Nouel, and CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats, as well as at the Supreme Court of Arizona in the United States. Rania has gained over 20 years of international multidisciplinary expertise covering advisory, transactional and dispute-resolution matters in Paris, the US and Lebanon.
With a broadly focused arbitration practice, Rania has extensive experience representing notable clients in winning complex high-stake domestic and international arbitration cases under the rules of all major arbitral institutions in the Middle East and Europe (including ICC, ICSID, and BCCI), and in ad-hoc proceedings. Her practice spans across many industries, with a particular sector experience in media, construction, energy, and finance.
Rania is regularly solicited to serve as arbitrator on key arbitration disputes. She also participates in legal committees advising on updating the arbitration rules of local arbitration centers. Rania has been elected as a delegate of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR for the mandate 2024-2027.
Her expertise further includes advising on the acquisition, commercialization, protection, licensing and enforcement of all types of intellectual property rights (trademarks, designs, models, copyright, know-how, domain names, professional secrecy), as well as acting on both contentious and non-contentious issues in the press, audio-visual, technology (internet, software, databases, e-commerce) and media sectors.
Rania's recent notable representative experience can be viewed here.