DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Arbitration at SERAJ Advocacy & Legal Counseling
We provide local and international business communities with arbitration services, including modern and well-equipped meeting and hearing rooms. Our role in the dispute resolution process is to administer cases and client representation from filing to closing. This includes the appointment of arbitrators, attendance at arbitration hearings, and providing users with information on dispute resolution options, including amicable settlements.
Our experience extends to high-value, complex and cross-border disputes across key sectors. Our team has substantial experience working in domestic and international arbitrations as counsels and arbitrators. Our experience includes acting in arbitrations administered by major local and international arbitral institutions (including ADCCAC, DIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA) and subject to most of the major arbitral rules of practice and procedure including the UNCITRAL Model Law.
We are available to serve as arbitrators either as the sole member of a tribunal or as part of a three-member tribunal. We are available for arbitrations in Amman (Jordan), Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), Doha, (Qatar), Manama (Bahrain), Jeddah and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), and the wider Middle East countries.
We also provide training on arbitration, internationally and domestically, and we regularly speak at conferences, seminars, and workshops and offer professional development lectures.
We offer the following:
- Arbitration Agreements
- Arbitration Deeds
- Arbitrators
- Lawyers
- Listed Arbitrators
- Arbitral Award Enforcement
- Meeting & Hearing Rooms
Our arbitration team offer strategic business thinking rooted in our exceptional legal knowledge on local and international levels. Our integrated international network and the solid international partners relationships enable us to tackle complex multi-jurisdictional cases.
We, therefore, offer the following key arbitration practice:
Construction arbitration
Our team specializes in disputes arising out of significant construction and infrastructure projects. We work seamlessly with our front-end construction experts. Our team is familiar with the issues arising out of complex construction disputes, including extensions of time, prolongation costs, liquidated damages, delay penalties, and variations. We have acted for employers, contractors, and subcontractors, so we know the strategies and tactics that are deployed from multiple perspectives.
We have in-depth construction sector knowledge, and we have a deep understanding of all forms of internationally accepted constructions documentation, having worked on projects from feasibility through to execution.
We are well placed to meet and exceed our clients’ expectations since our experience allows us to fully understand the objectives, working practices, and requirements that will be relevant to construction disputes across the Middle East.
Commercial arbitration
We handle disputes for private individuals, corporate entities, governmental entities, and states. We have a deep-rooted understanding of most of the arbitral rules that apply to these types of arbitrations. Our focus is on insurance coverage, a broad spectrum of commercial and corporate matters (including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital investments), capital markets, banking and finance, and real estate.
We provide expertise on Jordanian and UAE laws and practice, including retention and supervision of local lawyers in the Jordanian and UAE courts.
Investment arbitration
We advise our clients on all aspects of launching proceedings against a state or defending a state against proceedings under the ICSID rules, as well as arbitration cases under other rules, such as the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and ad hoc investor–state and state–state cases.
We offer a genuinely international reach combined with the local know-how of our integrated practice platform, industry sector experience, and investor–state arbitration. Our team has experience in matters involving bilateral investment treaties and multilateral investment treaties, in addition to the Energy Charter Treaty.
We will help you to determine whether your investment arbitration claim is viable and, if so, provide you with our proactive services, including a presentation of our findings and a plan of action to implement our recommendations. We will start with filing the request for arbitration, and we will represent you throughout all the procedures before the international arbitral tribunal, whether institutional or ad hoc arbitration.