Mr. Al Sabbagh has extensive transactional experience advising clients in various sectors. He has particular expertise with clients in trade finance, commodities, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, logistics and aviation as well as hospitality, and retail. He works closely with start-ups guiding them from setting up to becoming their external general counsel.
Mr. Al Sabbagh’s transactional practice includes advising clients with respect to general corporate commercial matters, mergers and acquisitions, and general finance. He advises a wide range of clients, from business start-ups to established companies, as well as high net-worth individuals and family businesses, on all aspects of corporate transactions. His areas of expertise include corporate restructuring and commercial transactions, locally and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder relations, corporate governance and compliance and general commercial advisory.
Jafar’s experience includes negotiating and drafting of key transaction documents, such as share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, investment agreements, joint venture agreements, due diligence reports, management consultancy agreements, and general commercial agreements. His expertise consists of legal consultancies, companies’ registration including free and development zones, joint ventures, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, labor matters, income and sales tax legal matters, drafting and amending legislations including those related to investment and economic development.
Ja’far also represents multijurisdictional corporations in high stake commercial and business disputes and is primarily responsible for a number of contentious litigation and arbitration cases. His experience involves successfully representing clients in contentious disputes in values exceeding (20) Million JOD, preparing the defense for an agency commission claim (value of US$3 million), drafting the needed notices as well as legal documents in respect of trademark infringement, negotiating and successfully concluding a favorable settlement (value of more than JOD 500,000), drafting and reviewing all related documents with respect to an arbitration claim (total value of US$10 million).
Prior Al Khair Legal Attorneys, Mr. Al Sabbagh was an Associate at Eversheds Sutherlands, whereby he was involved in a wide range of commercial transactions and disputes including employment law, property law, medical negligence, monetary claims, the law of tort, intellectual property, company disputes, commercial agency contracts, construction and criminal complaints, theft, blackmail, mistrust, and cybercrimes.
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