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Dr. Saud Al-Ammari

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Dr. Saud Al-Ammari

Dr. Saud Al-Ammari

Managing Partner of Al-Ammari Law Firm & a member of the SCCA Board of Directors

Dr. Saud has experience in a wide variety of corporate and commercial legal matters both inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He served as special counsel and later general attorney for Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco).

 

He also advised the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a number of capacities, including as legal adviser to the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, general counsel to the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and a member of the Kingdom's negotiation team for the implementation of the Kingdom's Natural Gas Initiative.

 

Dr. Saud also served as chairman of the legal defense team of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which successfully handled two U.S. antitrust class action cases brought against OPEC.

 

He has successfully represented the Kingdom in numerous sovereign immunity cases in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, and is a former outside legal adviser to the Kingdom's Consultative (Shura) Council and the Royal Court in the Kingdom. He is also an alternate judge at the ICC.

 

Licenses:

  1. Licensed to Practice Law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  2. Licensed to Practice Law in the Kingdom of Bahrain
  3. Licensed to practice law in Washington DC, the United States of America
  4. Licensed to practice law in the State of Pennsylvania, the United States of America (inactive)
  5. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar (inactive)
  6. Licensed as an arbitrator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Emirate of Dubai, Britain and the United States of America
  7. Licensed by the Ministry of Commerce & Investment as a Legal Translator (between English and Arabic)

 

Education:

  1. J. D., South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas (USA) 1986
  2. LL.M., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)1990
  3. B.A. (International Relations), The American University, Washington, D.C. (USA)1982
  4. Executive Program for Management Development, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) 2001
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