Raphaël Chabaneix's practice focuses on representing universities, startups, research institutes and technology companies in high-stakes intellectual-property litigation and licensing negotiations. He has broad experience in the semiconductor, wireless-communications and biomedical areas. Raphaël represents plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

He has also handled complex international commercial and investment disputes, notably before international arbitral tribunals. He is fluent in French and holds law degrees from the Georgetown University Law Center, Paris Comparative Law Institute (Panthéon-Assas University) and Sorbonne Law School. Raphaël earned his engineering degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor society.