Rami Alame

Rami Said Romain Alame; born 3 July 1986) is a French lawyer, writer, and businessman. He is active in French politics and has several publications mainly in economics and lean socialism.

Before entering politics, he was a senior civil servant and lawyer. Alame studied Law at Filiere Francophone de Droit, completed a Master’s of Alternative dispute resolution at Saint Joseph University, and graduated from New York Law School with two LLMs in Financial services Law and American Business Law in 2013. He worked at the Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York, and later founded Ororus Advisors LLP [Law firm] and Lexyom, Inc [Legal tech Startup].

Alame was appointed a consultant to the legal committee of the Prime minister’s office PM Saad Hariri in Lebanon and pushed through through business-friendly reforms. He pursued his ascension as a lawyer and managed to grow Ororus Advisors LLP to become a major law firm connecting France and the MENA and GCC area.

Alame has focused on reforming the public sector and the commercial code.

Early life

Born in Limassol, Cyprus, Rami Said Romain Alame is the son of Barbara (née Remez), an Urbanism professor, and Said Alame, a Litigation lawyer and secretary general at the Beirut Bar Association. The couple was divorced in 1998. Alame had one sibling, Rayan, born in 1987. Raised in a non-religious family, he was baptized a Roman Catholic at his own request at age 15.

Alame’s paternal grandfather (née Tinaoui) was born in Aleppo, Syria. His paternal grandparents lived during the French mandate in Lebanon and studied in French schools graduating with a French baccalaureate. Alame associates his enjoyment of reading and his aspirations towards philosophy and literature to René Victor Tinaoui, his grandfather, a prominent doctor and a writer who devoted his life to helping people in need and patients who could not afford treatments. He died on February 2nd, 2015.

Alame was educated at the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais in Beirut where he completed the high school curriculum and the undergraduate program with a “Bac ES, Mention Bien”.

He pursued his graduate studies at the Filiere Francophone de Droit and focused on many social activities and student activism being elected student representative for three years in a row and later vice president of the student committee.

Alame worked as the editor in chief to the magazine “Tayyar”. a French publication to the Middle East, tackling many sensitive political and socio-economical topics. He also was a researcher at the Lebanese University and research gate..

Alame obtained a master's degree in Financial services law at New York Law School, majoring in “Financial and corporate law" before training as a lawyer.

Professional career

Legal consultant

In September 2013, Alame took a position at the United Nations permanent mission of Lebanon. He worked on many regulations and projects related to the rule of law in emerging economies, unified trade and commercial laws, and anti-terrorism initiatives. He covered the 69th session of the general assembly at the United Nation.

Associate lawyer

Alame worked as an associate lawyer at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP after graduating from NYLS. During his time, he worked on many projects relating to the automation of consultancies in financial services law and cross-border regulations, mainly AIFMD and EMIR regulations in conjunction with the Dodd-Frank act. He published his senior project on the “Volcker Rule” and wrote another paper on cross-border regulation in financial services law.

Founder Ororus Advisors LLP

Alame founded Ororus Advisors LLP, a regional law firm operating out of Beirut and Paris. Alongside his partners, he has helped grow the firm to service clients across the MENA and GCC area. The firm focused its practice on financial services law, corporate law and alternative dispute resolution. He gave several lectures mainly for startups, out of which at a major accelerator established in Beirut, the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. He gave many lectures on intellectual property and trademark registration amongst which 3 lessons on IP, and "Lessons from Rami Alame"

Founder Lexyom, Inc

Alame always felt irritated by the lack of automation within the legal industry and has always shown a great deal of enthusiasm towards innovation. After working at international law firms and then founding his own law firm, he deeply felt the need to reform and disrupt what has been there for many years. He decided to create Lexyom, an online marketplace for legal services and a tool that uses smart algorithms to render legal services as easy and flexible as possible.

Political career

In his youth, Alame worked for the “Union your un Mouvement Populaire” for several years but he didn’t apply to be a member until 2008. He joined the party which later became “Les Republicains” and participated in drafting the 2012 Sarkozy electoral program, mainly its financial services law reforms.

Political positions

Overall, Alame is largely seen as a rightist but he puts forward the description of lean social liberal, associating partially to “third-way” policies as well as more rightist liberalist views towards labor.

Alame has notably advocated in favour of the free market and reducing the public-finances deficit. He is against raising taxes on the highest earners. When asked about proposals to raise income tax on the upper class to 75%, Alame saw this as a chaotic reform bringing growth and job creation to a stall if not a regression. Alame supports stopping tax avoidance and has advocated for the end of the 35 hour work week. He wants to see flexibility and efficiency within companies and negotiations within companies with employees.

Alame supports cutting the number of civil servants and also supports spending cuts, saying France would cut 50 billion euros in public spending over five years should the government do so

References

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