At Sultan Al-Abdulla & Partners, the focus is on advising clients through their contractual relationships from start to finish. The team fields its advisory, transactional and dispute resolution strengths to support clients both domestic and international. Salman Mahmood advises a range of corporate and institutional clients, with particular strength in infrastructure disputes. Dispute resolution is also a specialist area for Ashraf Feshawi, whose practice focuses on litigation and arbitration. Founder and managing partner Sultan Al-Abdulla has extensive experience in complex, multinational projects.

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Key clients

  • Ashurst
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • Three Crowns LLP
  • Qatar Building Company
  • Darwish Engineering WLL
  • Baker & McKenzie
  • Al Seal Contracting & Trading Co. WLL
  • First Qatar Company
  • Dukhan Bank
  • Samsung C&T Corporation

Work highlights

  • Representing a multinational construction company in multiple disputes against sub-contractors related to a construction project.
  • Representing the client in a dispute arising over a construction agreement that has been entered into between the client and a major construction company before the Court of First Instance to claim an amount of QR 527.9m.
  • Representing the client, a contractor, before the court claiming for unpaid invoices, variation claims and prolongation costs. The price of the contract was for an amount of QR128m.

Lawyers

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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sultan M Al-Abdulla, Salman Mahmood, Ashraf Feshawi