Address:
Salhiya Complex, Gate 1, 3rd Floor
Mohammad Thunayan Al-Ghanim Street
Kuwait City
Kuwait
PO Box 447

+965 2292 2 700

+965 2245 3 597


Key contacts:

Senior Partner: Sam Habbas
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Managing Partner: Ahmed Barakat
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Counsel: Rob Little
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Partner: Ibrahim Sattout
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Partner: Ezekiel Tuma
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Partner: John Cunha
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Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 30
Number of partners: 16
Languages: English Arabic French Portuguese Afrikaans Tagalog Swahili Hindi


ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners is Kuwait’s leading tier one corporate law firm, with a strong network of contacts throughout the MENA region. The firm has a leading commercial practice with a focus on corporate and commercial transactions, banking and finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, privatizations, IPOs, franchising, construction, government projects, PPPs, securities, taxation, commercial litigation and arbitration.

ASAR specializes in over 30 practice areas and represent clients that require a coordinated and seamless response to their legal needs. ASAR’s legal expertise extends to a wide range of areas that covers local and foreign multinational corporations, financial institutions, industrial conglomerates, governments and private clients.

The firm has over 30 years’ experience in Kuwait and over 15 in Bahrain and is regularly retained by leading international law firms to provide specialist local legal advice in various projects and assignments. ASAR’s clients include a number of significant public and private-sector Kuwaiti entities and institutions, major US and UK, European, and Asian companies and organizations doing business in Kuwait and the wider GCC region. The firm also has a very strong private clients & family office practice which advises and represents ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices.

ASAR has offices in both Kuwait and Bahrain and has strong ties to various law firms in more than 100 jurisdictions around the world.

  • Banking and finance
  • Capital markets
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Dispute resolution
  • Competition/antitrust
  • Construction
  • Intellectual property
  • Labour and employment
  • Private equity
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Tax