Dr Ali Almihdar is a barrister dually qualified to practise in England and Wales, and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has a wide-ranging practice for which he splits his professional time between London and the Middle East.
Ali acts as counsel, expert on foreign law and arbitrator mostly in multi-jurisdictional commercial and administrative matters.
His expertise typically arises from work in matters of corporate, commercial, construction, energy, IP, shipping, private client, family and succession, agency and distributorship and labour laws.
His arbitration experience derives from roles he assumed under ICC, ICSID, DIFC-LCIA, PCA, UNCITRAL and JCAA rules in disputes involving parties in the Middle-East, Asia, Europe and the USA.
He offers Saudi legal advice and services including advising clients in negotiation of contracts, formation of Saudi Companies, foreign capital investment licences for temporary or continuing commercial activities in the Kingdom and general advice in Saudi, Gulf States and Yemeni commercial and corporate matters and disputes.
Ali can work in either English or Arabic and is well positioned to represent clients in the English and Saudi courts and official circles and in any other jurisdiction where his dual qualifications will gain him rights of audience. He also holds an official Saudi Translation Licence: Arabic to English and English to Arabic issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Investment in KSA.
Educated in law at Churchill College, Cambridge (MA & LLM), his legal career started as Legal Adviser to the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and then expanded (through Almihdar Law Firm (ALF) established in Jeddah, 1976) to handling work for that Ministry and many other corporate and private clients from around the world.
He holds a PhD degree from Alexandria University in Egypt for his thesis on “Fairness in Contracts”.
Ali was the Honorary Legal Adviser to the British Consulate in Jeddah from 1998 to 2010.
Ali is frequently invited to speak on his areas of specialism, both in the UK and abroad. Some of his lectures and panel discussions are:
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