Biography
Dr Hassan Ali Radhi, the senior partner of Hassan Radhi & Associates. He is licensed to practise in the courts of Bahrain, including the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court. He practises in the courts of Bahrain in various areas, such as banking and finance, commercial, insurance, maritime and contract law. He is licensed before all degrees of courts including the Supreme Court in the sultanate of Oman, and he is also licensed as a foreign legal consultant by the Supreme Court in Texas, USA.
Practice areas
- Arbitration
- Banking
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Project finance
- M&A
- Investment funds
Recent transactional highlights
- Dr. Hassan Radhi has more of a supervisory and guiding role in respect of the matters that the Firm handles.
- Dr. Hassan Radhi is directly heading the arbitration practice in our Firm handling the big arbitration cases locally and internationally with support of other arbitrators in the office. This is in addition to him sitting as an arbitrator in cases assigned to him from time to time on an on-going basis.
- Dr. Radhi himself is actively involved in all banking and finance cases with a certain level of complexity and he directly guides the relevant teams and reviews the produced material before it is delivered . In addition, Dr. Radhi is active and has the top hand on the other new and running cases. The legal team refers back to him for his guidance and instruction from time to time and whenever needed. Dr. Radhi himself also still attends hearings before the courts and Bahrain Chmaber of Dispute Resolution (BCDR) whenever needed.
Sector specialisations
- Banking
- Construction and materials
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Investment management
Bar admissions
- Bahrain Bar 1974
- Kuwait Bar 1983
Association memberships
- Member of Lex Mundi
- Vice-chairman of Arab Users Council of London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) (2007-2012)
- Council Member of Institute of World Business of International Chamber of Commerce. (ICC, Paris)
- Member of ICC Paris Commission on Arbitration
- Bahraini National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Member of International Bar Association (IBA)
- Member of the Disciplinary Council of the Bahrain Bourse
- Member of Committee on Investment Barriers of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce – Bahrain
- Member of the LCIA Court (2007-2012)
- Member of the ICC Court (2000-2003)
- Former member of the Board of Trustees of the BCDR / AAA Bahrain
- Former Co-chairman of Arab Forum of the IBA
- Founding member of the Bahrain Bar Society.
- President of the Bahrain Bar Society 1986 – 1991. During this period served as ex officio a Member of the Executive Bureau of Arab Lawyers’ Union.
- Former member of the Lawyers Disciplinary Advisory Council of the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs.
- Member of Review of Civil & Commercial Procedural Law Committee – Ministry of Justice & Islamic Affairs – Bahrain.
Academic qualifications
- Ph.D. in Law, University of London, England
- LL.B, University of Mohammed V. Rabat, Morocco