Dr. Zeina Obeid is a Partner at Obeid & Partners, based in Dubai, where she practices in the Litigation and Arbitration Department. She has extensive experience acting as lead counsel in major international arbitration cases across the Middle East and North Africa and regularly serves as an arbitrator—whether as sole, presiding, or co-arbitrator—in both domestic and international arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, DIAC, LCIA, CRCICA, BCDR-AAA, and DIFC-LCIA.

In addition to her arbitration practice, Dr. Obeid represents clients before Lebanese courts in complex civil and commercial disputes, including matters relating to expropriation, commercial agency, insurance, real estate, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and annulment proceedings. She also advises international clients and startups on corporate structures and compliance issues in Lebanon and the UAE, with a focus on environmental law, anti-corruption, data protection, franchising, and the regulation of pharmaceutical and art sectors.

Dr. Obeid is a Fellow and tutor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Vice-Chair of the CIArb-UAE Branch, and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She also serves as ICC YAAF Representative for Dubai and Lebanon (2024–2026) and Co-Chair of the IBA Young Lawyers’ Committee (2025–2026).

She holds a PhD in Law from the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), obtained with highest honors, an LLM from Columbia University, dual Master II degrees in Business Law in Arab Countries and in Arbitration & ADR from Paris II, and a Master’s in Lebanese Law from the Lebanese University. Dr. Obeid is the author of Setting Aside Arbitral Awards in the Arab Countries (2017) and is qualified to practice law in Beirut and Paris, as well as licensed in Dubai by the Legal Affairs Department. She is fluent in English, Arabic, and French.