- Successfully representing an Omani Oil Company against a leading law firm in Oman in relation to a tenancy agreement in arbitration under Omani Law.
- Successfully represented an employee on account of unjustified termination of employment against a limited liability company in arbitration under Omani Law.
- Represented an international engineering company in an arbitration dispute relating to a claim for RO 5 million.
Profile Details
Dr. Ayman Abdulaziz Ali
About
Dr. Ayman is highly regarded as a leading practitioner in the field of dispute resolution in Oman and leads the Litigation Advisory and Arbitration Team. Dr. Ayman routinely handles complex commercial litigation matters across sectors and jurisdictions.
Dr Ayman has built a reputation for his expert advice on an array of complex commercial disputes including arbitration, commercial and criminal disputes in fraud, insolvency, restructuring, environment, and energy matters. He represents the leading corporates, banks and financial institutions as well as private individuals.
Since joining AMJ, Dr. Ayman lead teams in a high-profile matters, including construction and engineering arbitrations, share-price fixing prosecution, bribery prosecutions, complex high value cross-border fraud and nullification of arbitral awards.
He has also advised numerous clients in construction and engineering disputes, professional negligence claims, directors’ liability and cross-border commercial litigation.
Experience
Arbitration
Civil and Commercial Disputes
- Acting for Oman Fiber Optic Co. SAOG in relation to the dispute for their new manufacturing unit against the contractor amount to USD 3 million.
- Acting on behalf of an electricity generating company in defence of a claim for encashment of bank guarantees and compensation for contract termination in an amount of approximately RO 4 million.
- Acting on behalf of a leading Omani Bank in a recovery claim for RO 23 million filed against defaulting borrowers and guarantors of a loan availed under a facility agreement.
- Successfully representing a construction company against another construction company in respect of a claim worth more than RO 2 million in a sub-contract dispute.
- Has successfully defended a leading international auditing firm against a claim of RO. 12 million as damages allegedly suffered by the claimant on account of negligence of the auditing firm.
- Successfully representing a publicly listed company against a Public Authority in arbitration under Omani Law, in respect of a rotation contract.
Criminal and Compliance Matters
- Defending corporate and individual clients in cases of bribery, corruption, consumer protection, forgery, fraud, abuse of power/job position, breach of trust and bounced cheques etc. under the Oman Penal Code.
- Defending clients charged with various offences with regards to insider trading and fraudulent misrepresentation under the Oman Penal Code and the Capital Market Authority Law.
- Assisting our client who was being investigated by the Public Prosecution on a charges of money laundering in the amount of RO 37 Million and advising on the relevance of the allegations, as well as potential risks involved in the process.
Labour
- Advising and successfully representing a renowned international client with an Omani presence in the Oil Industry in labour claims filed by 226 employees claiming salary benefits according to the salary schedule in the Company’s HR Manual. It was successfully proved through forensic investigation at the ROP Lab that the CEO’s signature in the HR Manual registered with the Ministry of Labour had been forged by an employee prior to submission of the Manual to the Ministry.
- Acting as counsel for an iron and steel company in relation to a labour claim filed by an under-performing employee claiming equality in salary and benefits as employees on a higher grade and for reinstatement in the Company’s services.
Shariah Matters
- Jointly with the lead counsel from within the Firm successfully represented clients before the Supreme Court in Shariah Law matters, in particular, with regards to nullification of marriage contracts and denial of parentage
Testimonials
Throughout his career, Dr. Ayman has been ranked as Band 1,2,3 by Chambers Global. He is also recommended by Legal 500.
Legal 500 2025
Dr Ayman Ali is good and has a very good knowledge of the law and practice.'
Chambers Global 2025 - Dispute Resolution: Ranked as Band 2,
Ayman Abdulaziz Ali is a highly experienced lawyer whose litigation practice covers a wide range of areas. He has appeared before all levels of the Omani courts and is particularly eminent with regard to matters of Shari'a law, commercial disputes and civil litigation.
“Dr Ayman is a shrewd lawyer with extensive experience and knowledge of the law, including litigation and arbitration. He has exceptional legal expertise and analytic skills.”
Expertise:
Litigation Advisory and Arbitration
Regulation and Governance
Restructuring and Insolvency
Additional Details:
Admissions
- Arab Advocates Association
- Omani Lawyers Association
- Egyptian Association of Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation
Education
- Doctorate degree, Ain Shams University, Egypt in Civil Law in 2007
- Master’s degree, Mansoura University, Egypt in 2003
- LLB, University of Zagazig, Egypt in 1990
Languages
- English
- Arabic
Publications
- Global Practice Guides - International Arbitration 2021 Chambers and Partners
- Global Practice Guides - Enforcement of Judgements 2020 Chambers and Partners
- Global Practice Guides - Insolvency 2019 Chambers and Partners
- Limitations on the Employer’s Disciplinary Rights -Dar Al Nahda, Egypt
- Non-compete Clause under the Laws of Oman-Dar Al Nahda, Egypt
- The Impact of Annulment of Arbitral Awards on Arbitration Agreements-Dar Al Nahda, Egypt
- The Claim for Annulment of Arbitral Awards-Dar Al Nahda, Egypt
- Petitions before the Supreme Court-Roueya Newspaper
- Monitoring Constitutional Compliance of Laws-Roueya Newspaper
- Liability of Journalists for offending Public Servants-Roueya Newspaper
- Sale of under-construction buildings- Roueya Newspaper
- Non-Competition Clause in Civil Transactions-Roueya Newspaper
- Restrictions on the Disciplinary Authority of Employers-Roueya Newspapers
- Electronic Crimes-Roueya Newspapers
- Liability of Directors under Omani Law Business Times
- Comparing the Arbitration Law in Oman with other jurisdictions of Egypt and France Under Publication
- Appeared on Television Radio talk shows Different topics of legal relevance.