Firas Bakr
Managing Partner, Firas Bakr has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, transactional work, construction, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, project development and financing, advising both local and foreign companies. His clients include Ayla Oasis Development Company, Arab Potash Company, Arab Fertilizers and Chemical Industries and Jordan Insurance Company. He also heads the firm’s project development, finance, and construction practices. He has served as lead counsel on numerous transactions including major real estate and tourism development projects; acquisitions of target companies in the mining and waste management industries; negotiation of long-term gas sale agreements for industrial use. Firas has extensive experience in litigation. He acts as advocate and adviser in court and arbitration proceedings concerning major construction, engineering, and infrastructure projects in Jordan. He also sits as an arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator in commercial and construction arbitrations. · Bakr & Odeh Advocates & Legal Consultants
About
Managing Partner at Bakr & Odeh Advocates & Legal Consultants with extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, construction, project development and project finance, insurance and mergers and acquisitions; he has advised both local and foreign companies including Ayla Oasis Development Company, Arab Potash Company, Arab Fertilizers and Chemical Industries and Jordan Insurance Company. He acts as advocate and adviser in court and arbitration proceedings on major construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes and serves as an arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- LLB (Hons), University of London (1985)
Admissions
- Admitted 1991, Jordan