Dispute Resolution; Corporate Practice

Hussam is a prominent practitioner with specialization in Shari ’a, dispute resolution, international law, corporate law and maritime law.

While a long drawn practice spanning over three decades has honed his knowledge on legal issues, his business acumen has enabled Hussam to extract a win-win solution for clients.

He has led teams of lawyers in structuring large sized businesses, resolving complex disputes and rendering advisory on commercial and regulatory issues. He is a prominent practitioner with specialization in commercial law and dispute resolution. In addition to providing legal advice; he reviews and revises contracts and agreements. His advice and counsel is often sought by partners of the firm on delicate and complicated issues. With an eye details and business insight, he has enabled several high profile clients resolve their long stretched business disputes amicably. His entrepreneurial skills coupled with legal insight has helped clients in planning and restructuring their businesses to face the evolving and challenging business environment.

Among several professional achievements, Hussam adds to his credit the key role he had played in settling a complex dispute between partners of a huge business conglomerate comprised of ten large sized manufacturing companies. He was a key member of the team which rendered advice on business laws and regulatory matters to the consortium that was awarded the Metro Rail Project for Mashaer Al Muqadassa as well as the consortium that executed the Al-Haramain High Speed Rail Project. He has pitched and procured several high profile national and international clients for the firm and he ensures that they are well served by the team of partners and associates across the three offices.

As managing partner of Al Ghazzawi & partners, one of the oldest and leading law firms in the Middle East, Hussam manages the offices of the firm at Dammam. He has helped forge cooperation with Gowling WLG, an International Law Firm which enables Al Ghazzawi & Partners to render services to its clients seamlessly across different geographies and covering specialty domains.

Managing Partner

LL.M.  in International Law, Robert Gordon University, UK, 2006

Bachelor of Law, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah  (1992)

Course program of English conducted by the University of California,  Berkeley, USA (1987)

Course program of English as Second Language conducted by Harvard University, Cambridge – Massachusetts  during June-August, 1989

Diploma Program in Advanced Studies in Intellectual Property organized by WIPO and Gulf Institute for International Law, Dubai, UAE  (1998).

Higher Diploma in International Law (with distinction) conducted by Alexandria University in association with Gulf Institute of International Law, Washington D.C. (1998)

Higher Diploma Program on Intellectual Property conducted by Franklin Pierce Center, Concord, New Hampshire, USA in association with Gulf Institute of International Law, Washington D.C. (1998)