Practice Areas
Claudia works mostly in construction, contracting, engineering consultancy, property, and real estate, corporate, banking, and M&A. She also advises international and local firms on their projects with a focus on the MENA region on all aspects of civil, corporate and commercial matters and transactions as well as business criminal cases and regulatory investigations. and all legal aspects pertaining thereto. She has advised and represented multinational clients in litigation, ADR, compliance, regulatory investigations and annulment recourses in relation to disputes and transactions of various nature. She also acts in various jurisdictions in international and domestic arbitration, mainly under ICC, LCIA and QICCA Rules and in ad hoc proceedings as Arbitrator, legal Counsel or legal expert in Civil Law. Her international law practice provides essential legal counsel to many international, regional and local commercial companies and corporations.
Career
Claudia El Hage is the Managing Partner of Rashed al Marri Law Office (Qatar) in association with C. el Hage Law Office (Lebanon) - known as al Marri & el Hage Law Offices.
Claudia is recognized by her clients, colleagues and peers for consecutive years namely in Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal, Lexis Nexis Client’s Choice award and other awards for women in Law. She is recognized as “a go-to lawyer”, “the full package”, “an audacious litigator who is utterly charming and decisive”. In the latest ranking of Chambers & Partners 2022 & 2023 - Band 1 in International Arbitration, she was referred to as follows: "Claudia has impressed us at so many levels: she orchestrates arbitration hearings and pleads impeccably, she draws remarkable strategies for the cases, and she manages her teams very efficiently." "She's very, very good - very capable and very cooperative. She understands how to manage a construction dispute very well".
Publications
Construction Arbitration 2023 - Qatar - GAR · Aug 8, 2024
Chambers Construction Law 2024 (Q&A & T&D) - Qatar · Jul 3, 2024
Lexology Panoramic Next: Dispute Resolution 2024 - Qatar · Jun 1, 2024
Qatar Appeal Court judgment dated 30/04/2024: Rights over a pledged property - Chambers · May 1, 2024
Qatar- QICDRC has no jurisdiction over employment disputes between QFZA and its employees - Chambers · Apr 30, 2024
Qatar Execution Court judgment dated 21/2/2024: Rights over a pledged property - Chambers · Apr 2, 2024
Qatar: Court Judgment on enforceability of a mediation clause pursuant to Mediation Law No.20/2021 - Chambers · Mar 13, 2024
Qatar Courts - Appeal judgment 2024 - Written Nature of Electronic submissions - Chambers · Mar 13, 2024
An overview of alternative dispute resolution in Qatar - Ciarb · Feb 14, 2024
Construction Arbitration 2023 - Qatar - GAR · Jun 8, 2023
Market Intelligence - Dispute Resolution 2023 - Qatar Chapter - Lexology · Jun 1, 2023
Chambers Construction Law 2023 (Q&A & T&D) - Qatar · Jul 3, 2023
Construction 2022 - Qatar Chapter -Lexology · Jul 1, 2022
Digital Health 2022 - Qatar Chapter -Lexology · Jan 24, 2022
Commercial Arbitration Know-how - Qatar Chapter 2022 - GAR May 19, 2022
RECENT QATARI COURT RULINGS IN APPLICATIONS TO SET ASIDE ARBITRATION AWARDS - Volume 13, No. 1 – 2021 of the International Journal of Arab Arbitration · Mar 15, 2022
Commercial Arbitration 2021 Qatar - Global Arbitration Review · May 19, 2021
Qatari Courts Position in Respect of Arbitration - QICCA · Apr 28, 2021
Qatar Arbitration 2021 - Lexis Nexis · Apr 22, 2021
Digital Health Qatar Chapter - Lexology · Mar 9, 2021
Construction 2021 - Qatar Chapter -Lexology · Aug 1, 2020
"Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards - GAR - Feb 27, 2020
