About Us

Al-Hamad Legal Group (the “Firm”) is a leading international law firm located in Kuwait’s premiere luxury business center and beacon of Kuwait’s business district—Al-Hamra Tower. The Firm has a longstanding working relationship with leading white shoe and magic circle firms across the globe and benefits from a vast network of global contacts comprised of esteemed academics, accountants and other professionals.

The Firm is spearheaded by the principal partner and founder, Rana Al-Hamad, and is comprised of a respected group of attorneys and legal consultants which collectively hold over 80 years of legal practice experience. The attorneys and legal consultants at the Firm have extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, government contracts and international transactions from all phases including due diligence, deal structuring, management of the investments and final liquidation and exit. The Firm is familiar with the many aspects of foreign joint ventures including their creation, management and disposition. The Firm has been involved in the creation and acquisitions of subsidiaries and joint ventures in most of the Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman, and the Firm has continued affiliations with one or more attorneys in these countries.

The Firm has negotiated various joint venture agreements relating to large infrastructure projects such as power generation plants, water desalination plants and sewage and waste water projects; the Firm has negotiated and documented the aforesaid projects with local governments on build, operate and transfer (“BOT”) arrangements and other concession-type deals. In addition, the Firm has gained expertise in structuring finance transactions to be compliant under Islamic principles having consummated deals both in the GCC and in the United States. Also, the Firm has extensive experience in advising, drafting and negotiating agency, distributorship and franchise agreements between foreign principals and GCC entities. The Firm has also assisted in litigation, arbitration and settlement of various disputes involving the aforesaid transactions.

Our Clients

Our clients include multinational corporations, international financial institutions, governments and their agencies, as well as domestic corporations, financial institutions and leading merchant families.

The Firm enjoys an exclusive niche with respect to providing legal services in the GCC states through strong relationships with offices based in the Middle East as well as Europe, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Africa, East Asia and the Americas.