Lucien Bou Chaaya is a Partner in Trinity International AARPI (Trinity Paris). Prior to joining Trinity Paris in 2021, Lucien was a Senior Associate in the Natural Resources, Energy and Infrastructure group of Herbert Smith Freehills. He started his career at a leading law firm in Beirut before joining Herbert Smith Freehills’s Paris office in 2013.

Lucien advises a broad range of clients on single and multi-jurisdictional corporate, commercial and crisis management work in the context of transactions and projects in France, North and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East across a range of industry sectors, including mining, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, private civil aviation and defence. He has a particular knowledge of Arabophone and Francophone Africa’s local and regional legal and regulatory systems, including OHADA, CEMAC and UEMOA and a strong network of local contacts.

Lucien is qualified in France and Lebanon, and speaks, reads and writes Arabic, French and English. Lucien holds an LL.M in business law in Arab Countries from La Sorbonne University in Paris, a master’s degree in private law, a BA in law and a BA in political science from Saint-Joseph University in Beirut.