SumMaya is a lawyer at the Tunisian and Paris bar. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Sorbonne University (Paris I) on “the failure of international financial conglomerates” (published in 2002).
Maya is specialised in banking and financial law. She has an extensive experience in structured finance. She has practiced law during several years at Baker & McKenzie (Rome/Paris), Freshfields (Paris) and Jonesday (Paris), then as senior legal counsel at the investment bank of BNP Paribas. Back to Tunis, she was partner in the law firm of Ferchiou & Associés Tramadol before founding JURISMED.
She published several articles on cross-border insolvencies, islamic finance and international bank guarantees. She teaches international banking law at Paris I University, Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the University of the Holy Spirit in Kaslik (Lebanon), at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (Lille/Paris) and at the Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité des Entreprises (Tunis). She is fluent in Arabic, French, English and Italian.mary paragraph or bullet points