Practice Areas in Jordan

Abdullah & Partners covers 19 practice areas, organised into two groups. The 6 core practice areas are corporate and commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, foreign investment and market entry, arbitration and strategic representation, debt recovery and enforcement, and tenders, RFPs and procurement. The 13 specialist practices are employment and labour law, criminal law, cybercrime and digital matters, banking and financial disputes, real estate and construction, intellectual property, taxation, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, immigration, maritime, aviation and transport, transportation, and hospitality. Each practice area links to a dedicated page on the firm's website with the lawyers responsible for that area and the kinds of matter typical of that field. The firm has been practising in Jordan since 2000.

The firm advises across nine sectors of the Jordanian economy: banking and financial services; investors and family offices; real estate, construction, and infrastructure; energy, utilities, and resources; diplomatic missions and development institutions; aviation, maritime, and logistics; technology, media, and telecommunications; healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences; and hospitality, retail, and consumer. The sector lens runs alongside the practice-area lens. A foreign investor entering Jordan's hospitality sector, for example, will typically need work simultaneously in three practices: corporate and commercial, real estate, and employment. The firm coordinates that work behind a single matter file. The Sectors of the Firm's Work section above sets out a one-paragraph description of each.

Yes. The firm advises Jordanian and international clients, including multinational corporations, regional conglomerates, foreign investors, embassies and cultural institutes, and development-finance institutions operating in Jordan. The Managing Partner's practice covers cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investment structuring, and contracts that require coordinated application of Jordanian commercial law and foreign governing law, including matters touching the Gulf Cooperation Council jurisdictions, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. The firm regularly acts as Jordanian counsel where overseas clients are advised by their lead foreign counsel on the broader transaction, and produces deliverables in English where the matter requires it, alongside the Arabic-language work required for filings before Jordanian courts and government bodies.

The firm's office is on the third, fourth, and fifth floors of Al Rashed Building, No. 11 Zahar Street, Umm Al Summaq, Amman, Jordan. The firm's lawyers appear regularly for clients before the three main court tiers: the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation in Amman. They also appear before specialised forums when a matter's subject-matter requires it, including the Administrative Court and the Income and Sales Tax Court. The firm's litigation practice covers civil, commercial, administrative, and criminal matters, with a pre-litigation negotiation and emergency-measures capability that often resolves disputes before formal proceedings are filed. New matters move through a conflicts review before any commitment to act is made.

The firm was founded in Amman in 2000 by the advocate Mohammad Jaradat, a former judge and President of the Court in the Jordanian judiciary. His son Abdullah Mohammad Jaradat has been Managing Partner since 2008 and continues to lead the firm. The firm is registered with the Jordanian Companies Control Department under registration number 497. Continuous practice since 2000 gives the firm direct institutional memory of the major commercial-law reforms of that period: the modern Companies Law No. 22 of 1997 and its amendments, the Investment Environment Law No. 21 of 2022, and the Personal Data Protection Law No. 24 of 2023. This continuity is reflected in the firm's drafting and in the matters its lawyers carry.

The firm follows a four-step process for every new matter. First, an initial enquiry through the central intake at info@abdullahfirm.com or by phone, WhatsApp, or Telegram on +962 79 566 6696. The intake team responds within six working hours during the office's working week. Second, a conflicts review and matter scoping, where the firm checks the matter against its conflicts policy and identifies the practice area or areas the matter requires. Third, an engagement letter setting out the scope of work, the fee arrangement, the team assigned, and the terms of the relationship. Fourth, coordinated delivery, with the lead partner managing the file and supporting lawyers from the relevant practice groups contributing where their expertise is required.

Yes. Every lawyer practising at Abdullah & Partners is admitted to the Jordanian Bar Association, the profession's regulator established under Jordanian Bar Association Law No. 11 of 1972. Article 54 of that Law directs every lawyer to uphold the principles of “honour, uprightness, and integrity”, and the firm reads that direction as a binding professional standard applied to every matter opened on a client's behalf. Several of the firm's lawyers hold professional positions within the Bar Association itself. Rami Al Shawawrah, a Senior Counsel at the firm, for example, has served four consecutive terms as a Council Member and a term as the Association's Deputy Head, alongside his litigation practice. Verification of any individual lawyer's admission can be obtained from the Bar Association directly.

The firm's lawyers have studied at institutions in Jordan and the United Kingdom, including Mut'ah University, Yarmouk University, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Middle East University, Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, the University of Derby, and the University of Nottingham. Several hold postgraduate Master of Laws (LLM) degrees, including the Managing Partner Abdullah Mohammad Jaradat, who holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Mamoun Qudah, a Partner at the firm, holds an LLM in Civil Law from Yarmouk University. Each lawyer's full education and admission record, alongside their representative matters and professional memberships, is on the lawyer's dedicated profile page reachable from the Senior Lawyers section above and the Team page.

The firm's engagement letter sets out the scope of work agreed for the matter, the fee arrangement, the team assigned, and the terms of the relationship before any work begins. Fee structures are agreed matter by matter and include hourly rates, fixed fees for defined-scope deliverables, and capped fees where appropriate. The engagement letter also addresses out-of-pocket expenses, court fees and government charges where applicable, billing cadence, the firm's confidentiality undertaking, and the conflicts policy. The firm does not act on a contingency basis on any matter; this is consistent with the standards set by the Jordanian Bar Association under Law No. 11 of 1972. Specific fee discussions are conducted with the lead partner during the conflicts review and matter scoping stage, before the engagement letter is issued.