Region: Oman

Middle Eastern firm Al Tamimi & Company has hired partner Basma Al Kiyumi as its new head of disputes in Oman along with the rest of her team from local firm BK Law.

15 November 2023

The Supreme Court of Oman has held that a lower court in the sultanate may hear a challenge to the validity of an award in a London-seated ICC arbitration – finding it has jurisdiction because the debtor is an Omani company.

26 October 2023

A Turkish construction company has challenged all three members of an ICSID committee hearing its bid to annul a previously unreported award in favour of Oman, alleging they showed bias through a series of decisions – including one that amounted to “direct interference” in court proceedings in Ankara.

18 October 2023

An Omani engineering company has agreed to settle an ICC dispute with a Hyundai affiliate over delays to a billion-dollar sewage treatment plant in Muscat.

02 June 2023

28 January 2020