Contract Drafting & Review
Bilingual Arabic–English contracts that protect your interests and minimise legal risk.
Complete contract solutions that protect your interests and minimise legal risk — drafted and reviewed in both Arabic and English.
Our services include
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Contract Drafting
Commercial, investment, technology and other agreements drafted to the highest legal standards.
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Supervision of Performance
Monitoring contractual obligations and ensuring all parties perform the terms of contracts and agreements.
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Representation in Negotiations
Legal support through negotiations and drafting of the resulting terms to secure the best position for the client.
Contracts We Handle
Construction and contracting
Main contracts, subcontracts and engineering consultancy agreements — with delivery, delay, liquidated damages and performance security properly addressed.
Commercial and supply
Sale, supply, distribution and commercial agency agreements, consistent with Law No. 27 of 2006 (the Commercial Law).
Corporate and shareholding
Constitutive documents, articles of association and shareholder agreements, within the framework of Law No. 11 of 2015 on Commercial Companies.
Services and technology
Service, licensing, maintenance and technical-support agreements, together with the intellectual-property and data-protection terms that accompany them.
Employment and HR
Employment contracts, internal policies, and non-competition, confidentiality and termination provisions.
Real estate and finance
Sale, lease, mortgage and credit-facility agreements, and the security documents that support them.
The Clauses We Focus On
- Precise obligations and performance standards
- Pricing, payment and adjustment mechanisms
- Liquidated damages and limits of liability
- Guarantees and bank securities
- Force majeure and changed circumstances
- Confidentiality and intellectual property
- Governing law and dispute resolution
- Termination and exit rights
How We Work
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Understand the deal first
We do not start from a template. We start from the commercial purpose and the risks that actually fall on you — a contract is a tool for doing a deal, not a document for its own sake.
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Draft or review
We draft from scratch, or review the counterparty’s draft with a written report setting out the clauses that concern us, what they mean in practice, and an alternative for each.
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Negotiate
We support you through negotiation rounds and rank concessions by what they are actually worth, rather than bargaining over every clause equally.
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Both languages together
We prepare the Arabic and English versions in parallel and specify which governs in the event of discrepancy — a clause that is often overlooked and expensive when a dispute arrives.
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After signature
We track obligations, deadlines and notices, and intervene at the first breach rather than waiting for it to compound.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the contract have to be in Arabic? +
Arabic is the language of proceedings before the Qatari courts, and anything filed in another language must be submitted with a certified translation. We therefore prepare both versions together and state expressly which one governs, so that a difference in translation does not itself become the dispute.
Which law governs contracts in Qatar? +
The Civil Code, promulgated by Law No. 22 of 2004, is the general reference for the formation and performance of contracts and the law of obligations. Commercial contracts are additionally governed by Law No. 27 of 2006 (the Commercial Law), and company documents by Law No. 11 of 2015.
Can we choose a foreign governing law? +
In contracts with an international character the parties may agree a governing law and a dispute-resolution forum, within the limits the law permits and subject to public-policy rules. We assess this case by case — choosing a distant law can materially raise the real cost of enforcing your rights.
We have already signed — can it still be reviewed? +
Yes. We review existing contracts to set out the legal position, the risks that follow from it, and the options for variation or termination. Reviewing before a dispute crystallises costs far less than dealing with one afterwards.
What if the other side breaches? +
We begin with the breach and notice provisions the contract itself sets out, and serve the appropriate notice. Most matters resolve at that stage; where they do not, we move to whichever route the contract prescribes — negotiation, arbitration or litigation.
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