Ziad Obeid

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Managing Partner, Ziad Obeid is a dual-qualified lawyer with a civil engineering background and extensive cross-border experience gained through legal practice in Europe and the Middle East.

Identified among the world’s foremost dispute resolution practitioners in GAR’s Thought Leaders 2020, Ziad has notable expertise in international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution proceedings. His experience covers cases brought under bilateral investment treaties, international legal instruments and contractual provisions across the real estate, reinsurance, construction, oil and gas, nuclear, power generation and telecoms sectors. He also advises on diverse public international law issues. He 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. 

Ziad has been consistently identified among the world’s leading dispute resolution lawyers, featuring in Who’s Who Legal surveys since 2011, and in the GAR’s guide: Thought Leaders, as well as in its guide to the world’s leading dispute resolution lawyers aged 45 or under. He is regularly identified by Chambers Global as a leading lawyer and is described as “very, very intelligent and exceptionally gifted.”


Events

01:30 PM - 04:00 PM

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Terms & Conditions

Updated at: 14/07/2024

By registering for the Riyadh International Disputes Week 2025 (“RIDW25), you agree to the following terms:
  • Registration Fees: Once paid, event registration fees are non-refundable, non-cancellable, and non-transferable. Fees are valid exclusively for entry to RIDW25.
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