Contracts and disputes across construction and engineering projects.
The firm delivers integrated legal services across the construction and projects sector, including the drafting, structuring and review of construction and contracting agreements, FIDIC contracts among them, together with legal advice throughout every phase of the project.
It manages claims and the settlement of disputes, and represents clients in arbitration and litigation, protecting their interests and securing the effective delivery of their projects in line with best legal practice.
A construction dispute in Qatar is decided first by the contract and then by the Civil Code (Law No. 22 of 2004), which supplies the rules the contract does not address. FIDIC forms are widely used and are frequently amended by the parties, but they are contractual standards, not Qatari legislation: where a FIDIC clause and a mandatory provision of Qatari law diverge, the law prevails.
How we help
- Construction and contracting agreements
- Project documentation
- Claims and variations
- Construction disputes and arbitration
- Enforcement of awards
In Qatar
Where the employer is a government entity within its scope, the Law regulating tenders and auctions (Law No. 24 of 2015) also applies, and it affects tender procedure, bonds, award and how variations and disputes are handled. A private project is governed by its own terms and the Civil Code instead. Identifying which of the two applies is the first step, because the answer changes the notice regime.
Most construction claims turn on records rather than argument. Entitlement to additional time or money usually depends on whether the event was notified within the contractual period, whether the instruction was in writing, and whether the delay can be demonstrated on the programme. A well-founded claim that was never notified is often unrecoverable.