Founded in 1949 — Beirut

Team

Wajdi Mallat

Founder · 1919–2010

A former minister and president of the Beirut bar, Wajdi Mallat founded the firm in Beirut in 1949. In 1993 he was elected president of the newly formed Lebanese Constitutional Council.

Principal

Chibli Mallat

Principal

Principal of the firm since 1993, when he was tenured full-time academic in the law department of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Director of its Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. Appointed in 2001 EU Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union at the University of Saint Joseph, Beirut, and in 2009 SJ Quinney Presidential Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Politics of the Middle East at the University of Utah. He has since retired as Presidential Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Utah.

Team

Samir Doumit

Executive Director

Thérèse Aoun

Amine Bachir

Rita Boutros

Nada Chahine

Executive Director

Former associates and trainees

Andrew Allen K.C.

Chafic Rahi

Fouad Atallah

Sandra Noujeim