Mounia Larbaoui is an associate in the International Arbitration Group in Paris. She advises on complex commercial, investment, and sports arbitration matters.
Her practice spans a broad range of sectors, including corporate and M&A, construction, infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, mining and aviation disputes. She has handled matters across North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, supporting a wide variety of clients. Mounia has experience with all major arbitral institutions and rules, including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and ICSID. As a dual citizen of Algeria and France, and having lived notably in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, Mounia is fluent in Arabic, French and English, enabling her to manage arbitrations in any of these languages.
Mounia also has extensive experience advising clients in pre-arbitration disputes as well as enforcement and annulment proceedings before French courts. Additionally, she has significant experience with proceedings before the Algerian and DIFC courts.
Mounia served as Co-Chair of the Lagos Court of Arbitration – Young Arbitrators Network (LCA-YAN) from 2018 to 2020.
Prior to joining White & Case, Mounia worked at several international and French law firms in Paris and London, where she gained experience in public international law, international arbitration, and mediation.
Mounia graduated as the class valedictorian from Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and received summa cum laude honors for her theses at Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and HEC Paris.
