Lawyer Profile
Karine Fahmy
Montréal, Québec
Overview
Karine is a litigator recognized for her strategic judgment, rigorous analysis, and extensive experience in complex cross-border disputes. She represents a broad range of clients in high-stakes civil and commercial litigation and arbitration across multiple sectors, including aerospace and defense, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, information technology, financial services, and entertainment. She advises and acts on contractual disputes, private international law issues, extraordinary remedies, shareholder disputes, unfair competition, and public law matters.
Karine has more than a decade of experience litigating contractual disputes in the aerospace sector. She regularly represents aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers in litigation and arbitration involving contracts for the design, production, and support of advanced avionics for major aircraft programs.
Karine also has in-depth experience in private international law, including jurisdictional challenges, conflict-of-laws issues, sovereign immunity, and multi-jurisdictional strategies to enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards under the New York Convention against both private parties and foreign states. In 2025, her team received an Impact Case Award from Benchmark Litigation for their work representing investors of Devas Multimedia Private Ltd. in recognition and enforcement proceedings relating to a US$110 million arbitral award against the Republic of India (Republic of India v. CCDM Holdings, 2024 QCCA 1620).
Alongside her transnational practice, Karine has significant experience leading applications for extraordinary remedies, including Anton Piller orders (civil search orders), Mareva injunctions (freezing orders), Norwich orders (equitable discovery orders), and seizure before judgments (pre-judgment attachments).
From 2024 to 2026, Karine served as legal counsel to the former Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, Lise T. Maisonneuve, who was appointed to lead the Future of Sport in Canada Commission and make recommendations to the Government of Canada on improving safe sport and the broader sport system in Canada. Over the past several years, she has also handled numerous judicial review proceedings.
As litigation counsel, Karine regularly appears before the Superior Court of Québec, the Court of Appeal of Québec, the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. As arbitration counsel, she advises and represents clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including proceedings under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules. She also acts as a Québec law expert in international arbitration.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2014 (QC)
Professional Details
Education
LLB, Université Laval, 2012