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• Sarah Haddadi – Strategy Director, LexisNexis Middle East & North Africa 
• Faisal Al-Sahouti – CEO, Qatar International Court & Dispute Resolution Centre
• Mubarak Al-Sulaiti – Chairman of Qatar Lawyers Association, Founder & Chairman of Al Sulaiti Law Firm 
• Sultan Al-Khulaifi – Senior Legal Counsel, Ooredoo Group

• Judicial Developments at the Qatar International Court
  • Recent cases on QIC jurisdiction, penalty clauses and damages, and employment
• QFC Regulatory Shifts
  • Enhancements to trust and foundation regulations for family offices and asset protection
  • Navigating the fully operational Digital Asset Regulations
• 2026 Legislative Reforms
  • Update on bankruptcy law modernization
  • The Global Minimum Tax and what it means for multinational in-house teams
  • Capital gains relief for IPOs and intra-group transfers
  • New regulatory framework for digital platforms and delivery services
• Audience Q&A

Moderator:Michael Patchett-Joyce – Barrister, 3 Hare Court Chambers

Panelists:

• Umar Azmeh – Registrar, Qatar International Court 
• Roscoe Stuart Banks – Associate General Counsel, Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority 
• Dr. Ehab Elsobanty – Partner, Leader – US/Middle East Initiative, DLA Piper 
• Amy Saretsky – Associate, Essa Al Sulaiti Law Firm

• Role of the Legal Function in Crisis Leadership and Decision-Making
• Sudden sanctions and regulatory pivots
  • Rapid decision-making in legal and commercial uncertainty
  • Secondary sanctions and cross-border exposure
  • Export controls, movement restrictions and emergency measures
• Board and governance expectations
  • Reporting, boardroom management, governance of AI tools in crisis decision-making (accuracy, accountability and oversight)
• Audience Q&A

Moderator: Dr. Andrew Dahdal – Associate Dean of Law (Academic Affairs), Qatar University

Panelists:

• Abdulrahman Saad Al-Qahtani – General Counsel, Ooredoo Group
• Rupert Bastick – Founder and Managing Director, MENA Consultants
• Salman Mahmood – Partner, Sultan Al-Abdulla & Partners

• Contractual Armor and Tactical Response
  • Triggering contractual protections: force majeure, hardship and change in law – what works in practice
  • Commercial trade-offs
  • Hard-coding resilience in your 2027 contracts: advance price escalation, supply chain diversification, and sanction-proof payment clauses
• Financial friction and liquidity risk
  • Willing-but-unable-to-pay scenarios: blocked correspondent banking routs and currency transfer restrictions
  • Insurance protection; notice timing and avoiding the war and political risk exclusion trap
  • Liquidity stress: managing group level financial covenants when project cash-flow is frozen by geopolitical events
• Building resilient contracts post-2026: sanction clauses, supply chain diversification, price escalation mechanisms
• Audience Q&A

Moderator: Victor Leginsky – Chartered Arbitrator and Certified Mediator, Arbitralis ADR

Panelists:

• Monita Barghachieh – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Marafeq Qatar
• Dr. Zain Al-Abdin Sharar FCIArb – Senior Legal Counsel, Qatar International Court & Dispute Resolution Centre
• Amr Hossam El-Din – Head of Arbitration and ADR / Senior Counsel, Al Sulaiti Law Firm

• Relying on AI under pressure: liability when the tools get it wrong
  • Duty of care and director duties when a sanctions-screening or export control decision is taken in reliance on AI output
  • Confident wrong answers: who owns the decision when the tool is wrong
  • What regulators and correspondent banks expect to see – audit trail, human review step, validation of the tool
• Losing access to your AI provider: exit rights, outsourcing rules and data recovery
• Contract portfolio triage under time pressure: using AI to classify large numbers of contracts for force majeure, sanctions, and termination rights
• Confidentiality, privilege and data sovereignty:
  • Preserving legal privilege and confidentiality when prompts contain crisis-sensitive facts
  • Cross-border transfer of confidential material to foreign-hosted models
• Q&A

Moderator: Sarah Haddadi – Strategy Director, LexisNexis Middle East & North Africa

Panelists:

• Burak Eryigit – Special Counsel, K&L Gates (Doha and London)
• Lara Salem – Head of Content Strategy, LexisNexis Middle East & North Africa
• Rayan Tabbara – Legal Director, Keeta Qatar