General Litigation

Our Lawyers handle a wide range of international disputes. Our experience in resolving global disputes extends to many industries, including international commerce, construction, investment, and banking, finance and derivatives disputes. Our lawyers have represented domestic and foreign parties in Saudi Arabia and other leading international institutions including: the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

Our lawyers' experience includes representing and advising clients in disputes arising out of bilateral investment treaties and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), ad hoc arbitrations under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Arbitration Rules, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1990 and Construction Arbitration, and Saudi Arbitration regulations.

Our Law Firm represents banks and other lenders, developers, businesses, governmental entities and other borrowers in banking and finance matters. Our attorneys can provide advice on sophisticated loan transactions, reviewing documents and disclosures to minimize client liability and assist with the smooth conclusion of financing arrangements. The firm also provides thorough and precise planning and documentation to avoid legal pitfalls during the transaction and beyond. 

Our lawyers advise on a wide range of debt and equity transactions and also advise on conventional and Shari’a-compliant structures. Our Partners have extensive experience in securities and derivatives, have assisted clients and drafted documentations, negotiated, and assisted in the development of a wide range of derivatives products.  

Our Law Firm has a rich and enduring tradition with the construction industry, with experience in construction, litigation, arbitration and construction contract law and contracts (such as FIDIC and AIA). Our construction attorneys’ combined knowledge and experience attracts clients from all disciplines within the industry including owners, design professionals, general and specialty contractors, construction managers, suppliers, liability and builders risk insurance carriers.

Our Lawyers are PPP experts and provide legal counsel and litigation services to owners, developers, tenants, property managers, title issuers, brokerage firms, construction companies, and financial institutions. Our Lawyers handle all aspects of transactional work necessary to negotiate the planning, financing, construction, and operation of residential, commercial and industrial real estate projects.  

Our Law Firm provides full-service corporate counsel to businesses throughout the Gulf and Lebanon. We are experienced in guiding companies from their initial start-up decisions, to day-to-day legal matters related to establishing businesses through resolving and closing business operations where and if necessary.

We routinely handle general corporate counsel responsibilities, corporate governance and control, contract preparation and review, sale or purchase of business, acquisitions and dispositions of joint ventures and privatizations. We work with our clients to discuss and evaluate the various options available to deal with issues confronting their businesses and work together to create a solution to meet those needs in a cost effective manner without exposing our clients to unnecessary legal liabilities. Our goal is to provide our clients with efficient, practical solutions to their business and legal needs for the life of the business.

Our corporate governance lawyers regularly counsel members of the board of directors, the board as a whole, and senior executives on the full range of corporate governance issues that confront companies and their leadership, including board structure and composition, duties of independent board chair or independent lead director, board committee structure and composition and board committee charters, senior executive and director succession planning, board and board committee evaluation and self-evaluation processes, senior executive and director compensation policies and planning, representation of boards and board committees, evolving trends and best practices for corporate governance, including review and updating of charter and bylaws, director election and other proxy contests, say on pay planning and execution, shareholder governance proposals.