Ms. Hadeel A. Hasan, FCIArb, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Al Hadeel Al Hasan Law Firm LLC (HHL), Iraq’s leading independent law firm, with offices in Baghdad, Basra, Erbil, and Amman (Jordan). She leads a team of 40+ attorneys providing comprehensive legal services to Fortune 500 companies, international oil companies (IOCs), embassies, international organisations, financial institutions, and technology multinationals across Iraq and the wider Middle East.
Ms. Hasan is the first and only Iraqi national to achieve Fellow status (FCIArb) with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in International Arbitration through CIArb and the University of Oxford. She also holds a High Diploma in Law from Coventry University (London), a B.Sc. in Law from the University of Baghdad, and is an Accredited Mediator through the London School of Mediation and CIArb.
A recognised expert in international arbitration, Ms. Hasan has served as expert witness before the Lausanne Tribunal (in a high-profile telecommunications licensing dispute, securing a favourable award), the Paris Tribunal (in a pharmaceutical dispute against the Iraqi Government), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), addressing matters spanning spectrum management, customs regulations, and telecom licensing. She has represented international oil companies in arbitration and court disputes concerning Technical Service Contracts (TSCs) and EDPSCs with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, acted as legal counsel in EPC contract disputes involving contract performance and delayed payments for large-scale infrastructure projects, resolved disputes over sovereign guarantees for strategic construction projects including power plants and water treatment facilities, and represented financial institutions in arbitration over tax disputes, mergers, and acquisitions in complex cross-border transactions.
Ms. Hasan’s practice extends across oil and gas, telecommunications, technology and digital platforms, construction and infrastructure, banking and finance, government contracting, renewable energy, and insurance. She combines deep knowledge of Iraqi civil and commercial law with practical experience in cross-border disputes and regulatory advisory, and is regularly engaged by major international law firms as local counsel for complex matters in Iraq.
Her firm, HHL, is ranked by both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 . Ms. Hasan is individually ranked by Chambers and Partners for Iraq. She was named Woman of the Year 2019 for the MENA Region by EY (Ernst & Young) and received the Rasmi Al Jabri Award of Excellence in London in 2024.
Ms. Hasan is a National Expert Author for Lexology, contributing the Iraq chapters on Arbitration (2024), Gas Regulation (2021–2023), and Construction (2022–2024). She served as Expert Author for the World Bank’s Doing Business in Iraq report (to 2022) and contributed to Islamic Finance News (2023). She has spoken at the ICC Italia Arbitration Forum (2025), the Iraqi Industry Advisory Board First Conference (2023), Iraq Open to the World (2023), and the Iraq Energy Forum (2022).
She is a member of the Iraqi Bar Association, the Iraqi Jurists Union, and the International Bar Association (IBA). She served as Chair of the US–Iraq Dialogue Committee for the Development of the Private Sector and as an Executive Committee member of the Iraqi British Business Council (IBBC). She has also served on the Steering Committee at the Private Sector Development Centre sponsored by the World Bank and the Steering Committee at the Ministry of Industry and Minerals for the formation of Iraq’s Industrial Strategy.
