Rahima Zitoumbi

Rahima Zitoumbi has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2023. Prior to working at Hanotiau Tossens Goldman, Rahima worked with Hanotiau & van den Berg (2023-2025) within the team of Professor Bernard Hanotiau on a variety of complex international commercial and investment arbitrations.

Before that, Rahima gained experience working as Deputy Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2022-2023), after completing her legal training in the litigation and arbitration departments of several law firms in Paris, as well as in an international organisation and in an NGO.

• Bachelor of Law, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2017)
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• Master in Literary Theory, EHESS, ENS, Université Paris IV Sorbonne (2017)
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• Master 1 in International Law, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2018)
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• Master 2 in Global Business Law and Governance, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po, Columbia Law School (2019)

• Paris, France
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• Registered with the Brussels Bar (E List)

• French 
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• English
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• Spanish 
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• Italian

• French 

• “Panorama of World Case Law (Belgium)”, Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage / The Paris Journal of International Arbitration, 2-2024, pp. 489 et s. (with Bernard Hanotiau, Iris Raynaud).

• “Constitution de partie civile d’États étrangers. Quel impact sur le recouvrement des « biens mal acquis » ?” (with Sara Brimbeuf), Revue internationale de la compliance et de l’éthique des affaires / International Review of Compliance and Business Ethics, Issue 3, June 2022, LexisNexis, p. 151. 

• Guide pratique pour une restitution responsable des biens mal acquis / Handbook for Asset Restitution: Good Practices and Recommendations for the Responsible Return of Stolen Assets (with Sara Brimbeuf),Transparency International France, June 2022.