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As of today, Mubadda stands as arguably the highest skilled and most experienced corporate and commercial Lawyer in Jordan. Finishing his training with the late great Dr. Hanna Naddy, PhD, Barrister at Law, Mubadda proved to be of star caliber from the earliest points of his career. He became a member of the Jordan Bar Association in 1996 thereafter. Mubadda completed his LL.B. at the University of Leeds and graduated from his LL.M. in International Business Law with Merits from the University of London (UCL) thereafter. He is a founding member of the International Congress of the Fellows for the Center for International Legal Studies (ICFILS) and an honorary member of the Center for International Legal Studies in recognition of his many legal writings. Among some of these publications is an article on Copyright and Trademarks in Jordan that was published in the IP Value 2004 Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value, An international guide for the boardroom (a joint publication for Morgan Stanley, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Moody’s Investors. Ever since joining the practice, Mubadda has been consistently ranked among the top corporate and commercial Lawyers in Jordan, being ranked No.1 in Jordan on numerous occasions by Chambers & Partners, the International Financial & Legal Review, the Legal500, Martindale and Hubble, Corporate INTL and many others. Mubadda has maintained a stellar reputation as a very ‘hands-on’, vocal Lawyer, who has never shied away from novel and difficult areas of Law, working on issues ranging from basic financial claims all the way to the legalities and intricacies of Timber content in inbound shipments, to working on complex deals with foreign Advanced Systems companies like Northrop Grumman and Rheinmetall, to drafting Jordan’s Copyright Laws directly enabling Jordan to enter the WTO. In his words “Wait until you see how much one Lawyer can do, the moment he steps out of the box”.

Mubadda has and continues to advise a myriad of world leading companies and international institutions. Some of those include Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, KLM, France Telecom, Dell, Amadeus, Saudi Oger, Gulf Finance House, Airbus, BBC, Amazon, JP Morgan Chase NA, Bloomberg, and Gillette but to mention a few. His expertise covers a broad spectrum of legal work that include Banking, Insurance, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions, Telecoms, Islamic Finance, Government Contracts, Real Estate, Private Public Partnership, Privatization, Litigation and Arbitration, extensive expertise in negations and drafting. Through the strong relationships Mubadda has built with long-standing clients of the Firm, he has been an ever-present and wise figure at the negotiating table on behalf of world leaders for years now and has gained a myriad of experience working on large international transactions. In 1997, Mubadda was responsible for the closing of the acquisition of Jordan Telecom by France Telecom, the largest deal to ever come to Jordan at that time, worth more than USD 900 Million. Mubadda then worked on Omya AG’s acquisition of a local mining company, then the Light Railway Project, worth USD 400 Million, the IPP Qatrana Power Plant Project, the establishment of all Marriott Hotels in Jordan, and the acquisition and subsequent sale of Saudi Oger’s Holdings in the Arab Bank PLC, a deal worth in excess of USD 1.2 Billion, as well as Billions in Financing Agreements, Securitization Agreements and Bond Issuances for many major international clients, including the First ever Jordanian Eurobond Issue back in 2004. Furthermore, Mubadda was responsible for the First ever licensing of a Payments Company in Jordan under the new CBoJ regulations back in 2018, where after completing the Acquisition of VISA Jordan on behalf of our Client for USD 40 Million, the Company was restructured and registered at the Central Bank of Jordan successfully.

University, United States.

– Areas of expertise: Acquisitions, Telecoms, Intellectual Property, Privatization, Litigation and Arbitration.

courts of Law, particularly in Employment and Civil Litigation matters.

– Advises corporate clients on their commercial and day-to-day legal and contractual matters, most notably in: Labor, Hospitality and the Hotel Industry.

– Experienced in drafting agreements and negotiations.

– Abed has been involved in numerous advisory projects, mainly focused in Corporate & Commercial matters. Abed is experienced in drafting a variety of Agreements for clients in a myriad of industries, and is an avid scholar of the Law, having carried out numerous legal research projects in a variety of fields.

Exeter, most notably the writing of his dissertation “A Normative Analysis of the Shareholder Value Maximization in Anglo – American Corporation Law” achieving a grade equivalent to a 4.0 GPA.

– Graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.85 – one of the highest amongst a graduating class of 600 students.

– Worked in a variety of areas, specializing mainly in: Securities Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Investment Law and Venture Capital, as well as Corporate Governance and International Commercial Sales.

– Post baccalaureate diploma in Criminal Law – 2017, University Torcuato Di Tella.

– Law degree with Criminal Law specialization – 2014, University of Buenos Aires.

– Avidly experienced Human Rights, Development and Defense lawyer that has been in the field for many years now.

– Her experience covers a very broad range of issues, most notably her service as the personal legal advisor to Luis Moreno Ocampo, an advocate in the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as her senior experience as the chief advocate at the Argentinian Public Defender’s Office.

– Vastly experienced in the fields of Human Rights and Criminal law.

– Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese, and is currently in the process of mastering the Arabic language in both spoken and written form.

– Author of various academically recognizable publications and journals, as well as the go-to expert for universities and international organizations in the Personal Security and Human Rights field.