Nayla COMAIR - OBEID

Professor Nayla Comair-Obeid is the founding partner of Obeid & Partners and heads the firm’s dispute resolution practice. She is a Professor of private law and international commercial arbitration at the Lebanese University – Faculty of Law, visiting Professor at University Panthéon-Assas Paris II, and lecturer at University of Oxford for the CIArb International Commercial Arbitration Diploma. She is also an Associate Member at 3VB Barristers Chambers in London and Board Member of Women’s Leadership Board (WLB) of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Her areas of expertise range from international business law and Islamic and Middle Eastern legislation to franchising, shareholder issues, commercial representation, licensing, administrative law, banking, insurance, intellectual property, telecommunication, construction, complex civil litigation and corporate and financial disputes.

Over the span of her 40-year’s career in litigation and international arbitration, Professor Comair-Obeid has represented major domestic and foreign corporate clients including states and governmental entities and has been, and continues to be, involved in the most significant disputes in the region and internationally.