Zu'bi & Partners, Attorneys & Legal Consultants

Banking, Corporate, Commercial, Construction, International Arbitration, Maritime, Labour, & Litigation

Founder

The late Hatim Sharif Zu’bi received an LL.B. Hons. Degree from University College, London in 1949. He was president of the UCL Law Society from 1948-1949, and was called as Barrister-at-Law by Lincoln’s Inn in 1950. He has been at various times Licensed Advocate & Legal Consultant in Jordan (1954), Bahrain, U.A.E., Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia since 1971. From 1950 to 1954, he was Advocate for Ministry of Finance in Jeddah and Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and from 1954 to 1955 he was Special Counsel to US Aid Mission, Jordan. In 1955-1965 and then again in 1969 – 1970 he was Deputy Chairman of Cairo Amman Bank. From 1965 to 1969, he was Minister of National Economy, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jordan’s Governor at the World Bank. In 1971, he established his law practice in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to cover the GCC countries, and from 1973 onwards, established law offices in Dubai, Qatar and Oman. In addition to being Hon. GBE, he holds several other Western and Arab high decorations. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in England and has been a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration and Editorial Advisory Board of the Construction Law Review. In 1971 he became the Chairman and Founder of Hatim S Zu’bi Law Office, which for a while, practised as “Al Mahmood and Zu’bi”, and since 2012, following the merger, as Zu’bi & Partners, Attorneys & Legal Consultants, Bahrain (including Hatim S Zu’bi & Partners and Qays H. Zu’bi Law Office in Bahrain). His son Qays and grandson Hatim are partners in the merged firm. He was married to Judge Hassana Hussami Zu’bi of Lebanon. His interests included horseback riding, tennis, motor-boating, philately, current affairs, and political analysis.

Arabic and English

Barrister-at-Law by Lincoln’s Inn in 1950; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in England; He has been at various times Licensed Advocate & Legal Consultant in Jordan, Bahrain, U.A.E., Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia since 1971; Member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration and Editorial Advisory Board of the Construction Law Review.

LL.B. Hons. Degree from University College, London in 1949