Ahmad Mustafa
Associate
Overview
Ahmad Mustafa is an associate in Crowell’s Doha office. Ahmad has significant experience advising and acting for clients on a wide range of complex contentious and non-contentious matters across a range of sectors including infrastructure, real estate, post, ICT, healthcare, food and retail, and hospitality and leisure. Ahmad actively participates in legal and legislative projects, where he translates and/or drafts laws and regulations consistent with Qatar’s standards and practices.
Career & Education
- Helwan University, B.A., linguistics and translation
- Ain Shams University, LL.B.
- Arabic
- English
Representative Matters
Corporate, Commercial & Compliance
- Advised a leading public joint stock construction company on multiple corporate governance and compliance matters.
- Advised several QFC-registered and mainland companies on the pensions and social insurance rights of Qataris and GCC nationals.
- Advised multiple clients on a range of healthcare law-related questions and regulatory requirements.
- Advised a government-owned entity in revising its alumni guidelines, drafting procurement documentation in Arabic, and reviewing multiple contracts and agreements.
- Advised a bank on a QAR 500 million facility agreement.
Regulatory and Legislative Drafting
- Represented a postal operator in the review and provision of regulatory and legal assessment of regulations issued by the regulatory authority for consultation.
- Advised a financial center in conducting a comparative analysis of investment club regimes across key jurisdictions, including the DIFC, US, UK, and Singapore.
- Advised a regulatory authority on the establishment of a state tech fund and the drafting of the governing law.
- Advised a regulatory authority on the creation and drafting of a family companies law.
- Advised a media city on the review and enhancement of its content regulations and guidelines.
- Advised a tourism regulator on the drafting of tourism and exhibition regulations.
- Provided counsel to a communications regulatory authority on the overhaul of the ICT legal and regulatory framework.
- Advised a railway operator on the review of its user regulations.
Dispute Resolution and Litigation
- Acted for major clients, including one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and a leading Qatari construction company, in employment-related disputes before Qatari courts.
- Represented an auditing firm in multiple administrative, criminal, and civil proceedings before regulatory authorities and courts in Qatar.
- Represented an insurance company in a QAR 14 million dispute against foreign reinsurers before Qatari courts.
- Acted for a mall operator in rental and construction disputes in Qatari courts involving claims exceeding QAR 500 million.
- Represented a major food distributor in criminal proceedings arising under the Strategic Stock Law and civil non-payment dispute.
- Advised a satellite operator in respect of a $27 million non-payment dispute against a sports network.
- Represented a government on a nationally significant dispute exceeding $3 billion related to the design and construction of an airport.
- Represented a construction company in seeking the annulment of an arbitration award valued at approximately $5 million.
