Firm founder

Lawyer Umerr Arthur Al-Khatib was born in 1970 in Erlangen, Germany.

He was educated in Germany and the USA, studied law at the University of Cologne (Germany), standard Arabic at the American University of Cairo and postgraduate business administration at the University of Hagen, Germany.

After his traineeship as junior barrister at the Higher Court of Cologne in 2001 and admission to the bar of the Regional District Court of Cologne, he began his career with the TecDax company QSC, Cologne as legal consultant on business law.

In 2002, Mr. Al-Khatib was appointed to the German Federal Foreign Office (Berlin) within the framework of the special programme "Dialogue with the Islamic World".

He worked there until summer of 2004 as legal consultant on international economic law and dealt with law cases relating to the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva.

Within the framework of the United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, Mr. Al-Khatib advocated the interests of German organizations on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office.
The judicial procedures comprised claims in excess of 1 billion US Dollars. Additionally the conduct of lawsuits on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany within the District Court of Berlin was his essential responsibility.

In January 2005 Mr.Al-Khatib founded the law firm Al-Khatib as an independent legal and economic consultant with special focus on business in the Arab World.

Languages:

German, English, Arabic, French

Memberships:

• the Arab German Association for Trade and Industry (Ghorfa)
• the German Arab Association (DAG)
• the German Association for Arab and Islamic Law (GAIR)