The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration opens its first regional headquarters in Dubai

The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration announced the opening of its first regional headquarters in the (DIFC) area of ​​Dubai, to provide distinguished dispute settlement services to local and foreign business sectors in the UAE, and all companies operating in the Middle East.
The center said that it was keen to open its first headquarters outside Saudi Arabia in the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), which is one of the most important financial centers in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and works to facilitate trade and investment flows, and to link the region’s markets with the economies of Asia, Europe and the Americas. .

This step comes after the center completed the procedures for obtaining a license to practice work in (DIFC), and renting its headquarters in the “Al Fattan Currency House” tower, which will include integrated facilities, including a hall that the parties to arbitration and mediation cases can use after its launch soon.
A qualified technical cadre was also allocated from the center in the Emirates, including Fatima Balfakih, who was appointed general manager of the center in the Emirates. The Royal British Arbitrators (CIARb) in the UAE, and a member of the arbitration committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration Center in the UAE, and the Head of Alternative Dispute Resolution and General Counsel of the Center Christian Alberti will work from the center’s headquarters in Riyadh and Dubai, and supervise all case management activities and technical affairs, in addition to one of the Saudi competencies who works from the Emirates within the management team