Rashed Al Marri Law Office in Association with Claudia el Hage Law Offices

Arbitration & Litigation

Managing Partner

Claudia El Hage is the Managing Partner of Rashed al Marri Law Office (Qatar) in association with Claudia el hage Law Office (Lebanon) - known as al Marri & el Hage Law Offices.

Claudia acts as a legal consultant, litigator, and arbitrator. She works in civil, corporate and commercial cases and transactions as well as business criminal cases and regulatory investigations.

She specializes mostly in construction, contracting, engineering consultancy, property, and real estate, corporate, banking, and M&A. She advises international and local firms on their projects with a focus on the MENA region as well as Europe and all legal aspects pertaining thereto. She has advised and represented clients in litigation, ADR, compliance, regulatory investigations and annulment recourses in relation to disputes and transactions of various nature. She also acts in various jurisdictions in international and domestic arbitration, mainly under ICC, LCIA and QICCA Rules and in ad hoc proceedings. Claudia also advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial matters. Her international law practice provides essential legal counsel to many international, regional and local commercial companies and corporations.

Claudia is recognized by her clients, colleagues and peers for consecutive years as: “a go-to lawyer”, “the full package”, “an audacious litigator who is utterly charming and decisive”, "Claudia has impressed us at so many levels: she orchestrates arbitration hearings and pleads impeccably, she draws remarkable strategies for the cases and she manages her teams very efficiently." "She's very, very good - very capable and very cooperative. She understands how to manage a construction dispute very well."

Claudia is the author and co-author of many publications pertaining to international arbitration and litigation (GAR – Lexology - Lexis Nexis - International Journal of Arab Arbitration) and she is often invited as a speaker in various institutional and university conferences and webinars.

Al Marri & el Hage Law Offices have a team of 14 specialized lawyers acting as legal counsels, litigators and arbitrators in various jurisdictions along with corresponding offices in MENA, France, Greece, Italy and Cyprus with an established solid reputation.

Arabic, English & French

Beirut Bar Association

Bachelor’s Degree and Masters in Law, University of Saint Joseph Beirut, Lebanon