Mr Fawaz Alkhateeb

(965)1803020 fawaz@tahergrp.org View profile View profile View profile View profile

Work Department

Litigation/International Department  https://tahergrp.org/index.php/en/our-team/item/fawaz-k/195

Position

Senior Partner & Attorney

Career

When Fawaz was pursuing his Bachelors of Law, he undertook the responsibilities of an Administrative Manager with an initiation towards learning the profession. Upon receiving his Bachelors in the year 2009, he obtained the membership of the Kuwait Lawyers Association/Bar and was promoted to a Junior Attorney during which time he began to be actively involved in all the departments of the firm to get a hands on experience and exposure to legal matters. He then went on to undertake the study of his Master of Laws at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and received his Masters in the year 2012. Upon his obtaining the Masters, Fawaz brought back with him immense experience and exposure to which he greatly contributed to the firm especially in the areas of criminal law, capital markets crime as well as financial and corporate crimes.
He went on to head the litigation department as well as the newly formed International department of the law firm.
Fawaz further went on to pursue his doctorate and is presently in the process of submitting his doctoral thesis on financial crime at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
He headed the quality assurance committee (ISO 9001) at Taher Group Law Firm in both at the Kuwait and Cairo offices as he is a certified quality auditor.
He functioned as the head of the Constitution Defense Committee, and the head of the Standing Committee for the Defense of Lawyers at the Kuwait Lawyers Association (BAR). 
Fawaz is admitted to practice before all courts in Kuwait including the Constitutional and Supreme Court.
He presently functions as a senior lawyer and attorney at the firm.

Languages

Arabic and English

Memberships

Member at the Kuwait Lawyers Association (BAR).

Honorary member of the Kuwait Mind Sports Association.

Registered Receiver at the Ministry of Justice, Kuwait.

Registered Arbitrator at the Commercial Arbitration Center of Kuwait in the BAR.

Registered Arbitrator at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Kuwait.

Co-Convener of the Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law at Durham University, Law School.

Education

Bachelor’s of Law – Kuwait University, 2009.

Master of Law – Manchester University, United Kingdom, 2012.

Currently awaiting submission of his PhD thesis at Durham University, United Kingdom.

Leisure

Chess, reading, and diving