We have a profound understanding of the legal landscape across the Middle East, particularly in relation to infrastructure and projects. Our extensive experience includes advising on complex subsea cable contracts with prominent industry suppliers. Through our strategic partnership with Fenwick Elliott, we have been at the forefront of advising on large-scale construction and infrastructure projects across Qatar. We provide comprehensive legal support on contractual matters, including dispute resolution and risk management. Our expertise in Qatar, English and GCC laws, combined with our experience in handling high-value and complex disputes, makes us a trusted advisor for clients facing challenging legal environments. Our clients engage us for our ability to provide specialized legal guidance on international construction and infrastructure projects in Qatar and beyond. 

Contracts and documentation 
We deal with a full range of procurement and documentation tasks with extensive experience across the Middle East. From drafting project correspondence to negotiating complex agreements, our industry experience – and our extensive experience devising major business deals – means we can save you time and money, and safeguard you against possible pitfalls. We can help with procurement strategies, contract negotiation, document appraisal and risk analysis, partnering and framework agreements, and facilities management – or anything else that would benefit from our specialist attention. Following a project, we conduct full risk and project audits to assess which processes, if any, could be improved in the future. We can also provide a second opinion, or risk audit, on existing claims or disputes. 

Project management
The complexity of procurement, contracts and professional appointments documentation is increasing every year. Along with it comes the need for a more strategic approach to project management over the life cycle of a project. We frequently help our clients manage their procurement and contract documentation, including professional appointments and contractual issues. We can help you understand the commercial risks of what you’re trying to achieve and provide tactical advice to help you manage the project and protect your interests. Our aim is to enable you to get on with the job of running your businesses, while we take care of any potential legal issues.

Risk management
Risk management is an ongoing process throughout the life cycle of a project. Our specialist construction law experience enables us to develop practical risk management and early warning systems for your project. In addition, we offer project support services throughout the life of a project, including reviewing correspondence and notices to enable you to manage and address problems as they arise. We can advise in respect of issues and problems that may develop in relation to, for example, delay, dealing with and assessing extensions of time, appropriate record keeping, serving notices, considering and assessing disruption, prolongation and the cost associated with change. At the end of a project, we arrange debrief meetings to learn from both successes and mistakes.