Region: Saudi Arabia

Featured in The Middle Eastern and African Arbitration Review 2025

15 April 2025

CMS has promoted construction disputes lawyer Jay Randhawa to the partnership in Riyadh, while also hiring Bajar Scharaw as counsel in Zurich from Herbert Smith Freehills.

03 April 2025

Amid efforts to modernise ISDS, and with investors and states often settling disputes before an arbitration award, the launch event of the Council of International Dispute Resolution of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Riyadh explored way to promote more amicable resolution of disputes through negotiation or mediation.

12 March 2025

A panel at GAR Live Riyadh discussed the challenges facing lawyers advising on Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar “giga projects” and the tools they might employ to avoid dispute escalation. 

06 March 2025

The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration – SCCA – has reformed its board of directors, which remains led by Walid Abanumay as chairman and Toby Landau KC as vice chair.

03 March 2025

Clyde & Co has added three new partners in its offices in Saudi Arabia, while BCLP has hired a disputes lawyer to lead two new offices it is planning to open in the kingdom.  

12 February 2025

A US appeals court has quashed a Louisiana court ruling that said a DIFC-LCIA arbitration clause was unenforceable because the designated forum no longer existed following its abolition by the Dubai government.

28 January 2025

King & Spalding has bolstered its presence in Riyadh by merging with Al Fahad & Partners, the Saudi firm founded by international arbitration practitioner Abdulaziz Al Fahad. 

21 January 2025

A Saudi family has lodged a further investment treaty claim against Egypt over its real estate investments as an earlier case worth US$22 billion continues. 

06 January 2025

Morocco has applied to partially annul an ICSID award that granted US$150 million plus interest to a Saudi billionaire-owned investor over the collapse of an oil refinery.

10 December 2024