Helena Samaha

Lex MundiPresident & CEO

Helena Samaha is a multicultural lawyer with substantial international experience. Helena began in private practice as a finance lawyer at Clifford Chance before moving in-house at Virgin Group in 1998 where she served as Group Legal Director. She was subsequently a TMC partner at DLAPiper. Thereafter, with a global recession looming, Helena joined restructuring and turnaround consultancy AlixPartners as General Counsel-EMEA in 2008 in Paris. In 2011 Helena joined broadcaster OSN in Dubai 2011 as GC. Back in London since 2015, Helena led the Media and Programming team for Liberty Global before being appointed as Lex Mundi President and CEO in 2019.