Ziad Obeid

Practice Areas

International Arbitration/ Litigation/ Construction /Energy&Natural Resources /Joint Ventures /Real Estate /Nuclear /Telecoms /Aviation

Career

Ziad Obeid, managing partner at Obeid & Partners, is a dual-qualified dispute resolution lawyer with a civil engineering background and extensive cross-border experience gained through legal practice in the Middle East and Europe. Prior to joining Obeid & Partners, Ziad practiced in the arbitration practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in Paris and Dubai. With his dual-disciplinary background, Ziad has notable expertise in international construction claims and arbitrations involving high-value, technically complex civil engineering, infrastructure and building projects, as well as disputes arising from contracts in the oil and gas and nuclear industries.

Ziad regularly acts as counsel, sole arbitrator, chairperson or co-arbitrator in multifaceted international arbitrations conducted in Arabic, French and English brought both ad hoc and under a variety of institutional rules and subject to a wide range of applicable laws from within the MENA region and beyond.

Professional Memberships

•Chairman of CIArb Lebanon Branch

•Fellow of the IACL

•FCIArb

•ICC Task Force

•ICC Bulletin Editorial Board

•Djibouti International Arbitration Centre Task Force

•Arbitrator Center’s Users Council Committee for the Middle East

Publications

•IBA arbitration guide (Lebanon)

•ICC guide on enforcement of New York convention