Attorneys & Legal Consultants · Est. 1981
For forty-five years, when the transaction is the largest, the dispute the hardest, and the stakes the highest, boards, banks, trading houses and multinationals have turned to Dar Al Masri Law — the Kingdom's most experienced, most capable and most technologically advanced legal practice.
Dar Al Masri Law was established in Amman in 1981 — and has been in continuous, uninterrupted operation ever since. Through every economic cycle, every regulatory transformation and every generation of Jordanian commerce, the firm has done one thing: advise on the matters others cannot.
Our clients are the region's banks, its family conglomerates, its high-growth ventures, global hotel operators, international carriers and the world's leading commodity trading houses — and the foreign multinationals who need counsel in Jordan that operates at their standard. They come to us for the transactions that reshape industries, the disputes where nothing less than the outcome is acceptable, and the frontier questions no one else in the jurisdiction has answered before.
Today, under its second generation of leadership, DML pairs that institutional depth with something no legacy firm in the region can claim: a genuinely modern operating core — proprietary knowledge systems, AI-augmented research, and an integrated corporate-services arm — built to serve clients at the speed their business actually moves.
One standard across every practice group: if the matter is consequential enough to keep a general counsel awake, it belongs here.
The sharp end of the firm. DML acts in high-value international commercial arbitrations — cross-border disputes in trade, construction, commodities, hospitality and corporate matters — and brings what most regional counsel cannot: the enforcement endgame. An award is only worth what it recovers, and we have spent decades converting awards and judgments into results before Jordanian courts.
When the dispute cannot be lost, parties retain DML. Forty-five years of contentious practice before Jordan's courts at every level — across construction, banking, insurance, telecommunications, trade and commercial disputes of every description.
A practice built on real cargo, real vessels and real counterparties. DML acts for international carriers, freight and logistics operators, insurers and some of the biggest names in global food-commodity trading — on the contracts that move goods across borders and the disputes that arise when they don't. Our trade litigation experience spans carriage, marine insurance and commodity sale disputes, with the cross-border enforcement expertise to make recovery real.
We were here before the market was. Since 2014, DML has advised clients, companies and platforms on cryptocurrency, blockchain and algorithmic trading — from the practical mechanics to the regulatory perimeter. In 2021, the firm authored formal regulatory advisory on digital assets to national authorities at the highest level. When the question is genuinely new, this is the practice the jurisdiction consults.
The foundation of the firm since 1981. We act as standing counsel to corporates at every scale — from national champions and family groups to the Jordanian operations of global multinationals — on the full lifecycle of commercial life.
End-to-end transaction counsel for buyers, sellers and investors — domestic and cross-border — where the diligence must be exhaustive, the structure watertight, and the closing certain.
Long-running, operator-level expertise in one of the region's defining industries. DML advises major international hotel groups — alongside restaurant groups, F&B concepts and franchise systems — on everything from management and franchise agreements to day-to-day operational, regulatory and employment matters. We understand hospitality from the owner's side, the operator's side and the brand's side — because we have sat on all three. As with every client relationship at this firm, our hospitality mandates are held in strict confidence; we do not name the operators, brands or groups we act for.
Brand and innovation protection that does not stop at the border. DML manages trademark and patent portfolios for clients locally, regionally and globally — prosecution, maintenance, licensing and enforcement — with the contentious capability to defend what we register.
Decades of work at the centre of Jordan's financial sector — acting for lenders and borrowers alike on financings, security and regulatory matters. The practice also supports clients on securities and capital-markets questions as they arise in the Jordanian market.
Discreet, senior-level counsel for the individuals and families behind the enterprises we serve — the same rigor we bring to the boardroom, applied to what matters personally.
Cross-border disputes reward one thing: counsel who have actually done it. DML combines forty-five years of contentious practice with genuine international arbitration proficiency — pleaded across borders, coordinated across seats, and finished where it counts: in enforcement.
Trade, commodities, shipping, construction, hospitality, corporate — our arbitration work grows out of the industries we know at operator level. We plead the dispute as people who understand the underlying business, not just the procedural rules.
An award that cannot be enforced is a very expensive piece of paper. DML's decades before the Jordanian courts mean we build the case from day one with recognition and recovery in mind — in Jordan, across MENA, and in coordination with counsel worldwide.
Serious claims deserve institutional case management: rigorous merits assessment, defensible quantum analysis, transparent budgeting and structured reporting. Our matters are run to the standard that boards, insurers and third-party funders require — because we build them to be invested in.
Most firms hand you a legal opinion and a list of other people to call. We built the other people to call — in-house. DML and its sister company DMF operate as a single, unified hub for legal and professional corporate services.
The Kingdom's premier independent legal practice: transactions, arbitration, trade, regulatory counsel and disputes, delivered with 45 years of institutional judgment.
The operational arm that keeps client companies running: specialized accounting, tax compliance, and end-to-end HR and payroll administration — under the same roof as your lawyers.
When the world's leading corporate-services networks need entity management, corporate secretarial and multinational compliance mandates executed in Jordan, they execute them through us. DML serves as the trusted local partner in Jordan for one of the world's largest global entity-management networks — meaning the same infrastructure that maintains Fortune-scale corporate compliance globally runs through this firm locally. Consistent with our confidentiality standards, we do not name our institutional partners publicly; the relationship is confirmable through the appropriate channels on request. If your business spans borders, your Jordanian entity is already in the safest possible hands.
Every firm claims diligence. We built infrastructure. DML develops and operates its own AI-driven legal intelligence systems — designed in-house, run on our own hardware, governed by one rule: technology accelerates our lawyers; it never replaces their judgment.
Forty-five years of Jordanian legal practice — legislation, precedent, doctrine and the firm's own institutional work product — autonomously indexed into a comprehensive digital legal library. What took a week of research now takes minutes, without sacrificing an ounce of depth.
Proprietary AI agent pipelines handle the mechanical layers of legal work — document assembly, cross-referencing, consistency checking, compliance calendars — so that every hour a DML lawyer bills is an hour of actual legal thinking.
High-performance computing and advanced local language models operated inside the firm's own walls. Your matters are analysed with frontier-grade tooling — and your privileged information never touches a third-party server.
This is not a firm that discovered technology last quarter. We have advised on algorithmic trading and digital assets since 2014 — we understand code, markets and machines because we have worked inside them for over a decade. Our own systems are simply that expertise, turned inward.
The architect of the firm and one of the enduring figures of Jordanian legal practice. For forty-five years, Atef Masri has advised the corporates, banks and institutions that built the Kingdom's modern economy — and personally shaped the standard of rigor that carries the firm's name.
A qualified Jordanian legal counsel educated in the English legal tradition, Mohammad leads the firm's strategic direction, international disputes practice and technological transformation. His work spans international arbitration and trade litigation for global carriers and commodity houses, counsel to leading hospitality operators, and a digital-assets practice he has led since 2014 — including formal regulatory advisory to national authorities at the highest level. He founded DMF to give clients a genuinely integrated service, and built the AI infrastructure that makes DML the most advanced legal operation in Jordan.
Your matter is never handed down the chain. The lawyer whose judgment you retained is the lawyer whose judgment you get — on every call, every draft, every decision.
Our intelligence systems mean the research is done before your competitors' counsel has opened the file. You get advice at the pace your deal actually moves.
Forty-five years of practice in this jurisdiction cannot be replicated, imported or improvised. We know how Jordan's courts, regulators and institutions actually work — because we have worked with all of them, for decades.
Legal, tax, accounting, payroll, entity administration — coordinated under one engagement instead of scattered across five vendors who never speak to each other.
Counsel to international carriers, global hotel operators and world-scale trading houses — and the Jordan partner for global entity-management mandates. We are retained by organisations that could hire anyone.
Our AI runs on our own hardware. Our matters stay in our building. Your name, your numbers and your strategy are treated as what they are: privileged.
Bring us the arbitration, the transaction, the trade dispute, the market entry, the question no one has answered before — if it is consequential, it belongs at this firm. The first conversation costs nothing but an hour.
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P.O. Box 830257
Amman 11183, Jordan
T. +962 (06) 464 3878
F. +962 (06) 464 3879
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MENA region — throughout
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