About Byblos Law Corporation

Byblos Law is a solo corporate and estate planning practice based in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Founder Rani El Khatib started the firm, formally Byblos Law Corporation, in 2024, and it also serves clients remotely across the province through virtual consultations. The practice concentrates on corporate tax law, including tax planning for new businesses, family trusts, estate freezes, and intergenerational business transfer, along with wills and estates, contracts, and family law agreements such as cohabitation and separation agreements. Byblos Law does not take on litigation or represent clients in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency.

El Khatib holds a Juris Doctor from Thompson Rivers University, a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut. Before practising law, El Khatib started a career at Ernst & Young, spent 15 years as a university professor and business consultant, and founded the BC Family Business Center to serve small family businesses in Metro Vancouver. El Khatib is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

In the community

  • El Khatib serves as a community lawyer with Everyone Legal Clinic in Nanaimo, providing corporate law, commercial and personal agreement, and wills and estates work through the clinic's intake.
  • El Khatib designed educational programming for Small Business BC, focusing on succession planning and the transfer of a family business from founders to the second generation.

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100 Wallace Street, Unit 306, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5B1 · 778-222-3386

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