Dr Mohammad Zaidan

Dr Mohammad Zaidan is a co-founding partner of PrimeCase and Head of its Corporate and Arbitration practice. His firm has been named Arbitration Law Firm of the Year in the United Arab Emirates at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, an award that reflects both the strength of PrimeCase's dispute resolution capability and Dr Zaidan's leadership of the practice at the centre of that work.

PrimeCase is an international law firm with a substantial regional footprint, operating from offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Amman, London and Cairo. With a team of more than twenty-five lawyers and a quarter of a century of experience behind the practice, the firm advises clients across more than eleven industries and a range of service areas. It describes its approach in terms of a client-centred commitment to value, offering advice that is relevant, practical and comprehensive. As a co-founding partner, Dr Zaidan has helped to shape this platform and continues to lead its corporate and arbitration work.

Arbitration is a cornerstone of the firm's offering and the area for which it has received recognition. The United Arab Emirates has established itself as a leading centre for international dispute resolution, with sophisticated arbitral institutions and a business community that spans the globe. Parties operating in and through the UAE frequently choose arbitration for their commercial disputes, valuing its confidentiality, flexibility and enforceability across borders. Leading this practice, Dr Zaidan advises clients on the conduct of arbitral proceedings and represents them before tribunals, drawing on the firm's experience in complex commercial and corporate disputes.

Dr Zaidan's remit combines arbitration with corporate law, a pairing that is particularly valuable to clients. Corporate transactions and structures give rise to many of the disputes that ultimately reach arbitration, and an adviser who understands both the transactional and the contentious dimensions of a matter is well placed to protect a client's interests throughout. His leadership of the corporate and arbitration practice means that clients can draw on integrated advice, whether they are structuring a transaction, seeking to avoid a dispute or pursuing and defending claims once a disagreement has arisen.

The firm's broader capabilities reinforce its arbitration work. PrimeCase advises on litigation and advocacy, including proceedings before the DIFC courts on matters such as bankruptcy, fraud and misrepresentation, giving it a strong contentious practice across both arbitral and court forums. The firm has been recognised as a leading law firm in the Legal 500 EMEA rankings, an external endorsement of the quality of its work. This combination of institutional recognition and multi-forum dispute resolution experience provides clients with confidence that their most significant contentious matters are in capable hands.

Operating across the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt and London, PrimeCase is positioned to serve clients whose interests cross borders, and its arbitration practice is central to that international offering. For businesses engaged in cross-border commerce connected to the UAE and the wider region, access to experienced arbitration counsel is essential, and it is this need that Dr Zaidan and his colleagues address. The recognition of PrimeCase as Arbitration Law Firm of the Year in the United Arab Emirates at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 affirms the standing of the firm's dispute resolution practice and the leadership Dr Zaidan provides at its head.