Hammouri & Partners Attorneys At-Law

The firm

Hammouri & Partners (the “Firm”) is a prominent law firm in Jordan with a global outreach. The Firm accounts over 25 years of presence in the legal market with legal services that span across an array of industries and sectors. Since its establishment the Firm has been serving both the local and the international client for mandates pertinent to Jordan through the Firm’s Corporate and Litigation Departments. In 2015 the Firm took an innovative decision to expand its international capabilities with the addition in its structure of the International Department; a department dedicated to the international client (individuals or legal entities) or to the local client that is involved in international business activities, with the aim of providing tailor made services to its client; combining local know-how with international best practices expertise and cross-cultural competence.

The clients

The Firm’s international client base includes clients from different parts of the world, for example large and medium size corporations and financial institutions from:

· the MENA region (Lebanon, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and others), and from

· the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, and from

· the U.S.A.,

in various sectors such as:

· Banking and Finance,

· Pharmaceuticals and health sciences,

· Renewable energy,

· Hospitality,

· Manufacturing,

· Non-governmental organizations and local government associations and others.

The Firm’s international client base also includes a number of prominent foreign law firms from various jurisdictions that instruct the Firm on behalf of their client for legal support and advice under Jordanian laws.

The team

The Firm’s personnel is made up of a diverse team that includes legal experts that have completed their graduate and/or postgraduate studies in law in leading Jordanian Universities and/or in non-Jordanian Universities, primarily UK Universities. It also includes team members that possess international working experience both in law and/or other domains. The international capabilities of the firm are also demonstrated by the fact that the following languages are spoken as a working language by one or more team members: Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Greek.

The network

A number of the Firm’s clients are involved in projects with an international element, in which they often instruct Hammouri & Partners to handle the Jordanian law side of the project or to work together with their legal counsel in other jurisdictions on agreement drafting, regulatory requirements, agreement negotiations, project coordination and other. Furthermore, the Firm has in place a network of established law firms worldwide to advise its clients on legal matters related to other jurisdictions or to coordinate with the Firm in various international mandates such as arbitration, FIDIC contracts, settlement negotiations, court representation or enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards in Jordan.