رمز مرجعي م-٠٤Practice Area

Commercial Arbitration

We handle commercial arbitration before the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and in ad hoc proceedings: reviewing the validity of the arbitration clause, constituting the tribunal, managing pleadings and documents, then the procedures for enforcing the award or challenging it.

Scope

What we handle

What we handle in Commercial Arbitration

  • Reviewing the arbitration clause and assessing its validity and scope before proceedings begin
  • Preparing the request for arbitration, the statement of defence and the exchanged memoranda
  • Nominating arbitrators, tribunal-constitution procedures and challenges to appointments
  • Managing the document schedule, witnesses and technical expertise
  • Pleading at hearings and preparing the closing memorandum
  • Interim and precautionary measures in parallel with the arbitration
  • Enforcing the arbitral award before the enforcement court
  • Annulment actions against arbitral awards, or defending against them

Timing

When to call us

  1. Your contract contains an arbitration clause and you need to know whether it is enforceable before building your plan on it.

  2. You have received a request for arbitration and have a short period to nominate an arbitrator and file your defence.

  3. An arbitral award has been issued in your favour and you want it enforced against the debtor’s assets.

Forums we appear before

  • Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration
  • Enforcement Court
  • Courts of Appeal — arbitral-award annulment circuits

Legal insights

Our legal insights on this and other areas are published in Arabic. Browse the Arabic article list.

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