Claudia Fares El Hage

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.

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".

Beirut Bar Association

Higher Arbitration Council of LIAC-BBA.

IBA

ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR - Delegate of ICC Qatar

ICC UAE

ICC Lebanon

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

Saint Joseph University Beirut

Masters in Law

Global Leader Construction from

WWL

2021

Thought Leaders – Construction

Lexology Index (previously WWL)

2024

Thought Leaders - Arbitration

Lexology Index (previously WWL)

2024

ALB Super 50 Lawyers in Middle East

Thomson Reuters

2024

Powerlist- Arbitration MENA

The Legal 500

2023

Qatar

KSA

UAE

Lebanon

France