Rouhollah Saberi

a. construction and engineering contracts particularly in the context of oil & gas, petrochemical and power sector. He has worked as adviser to major oil and gas contracting companies in Iran and was involved in the negotiation, drafting and finalizing numerous high value EPC, PC and EP contracts particularly in the oil and gas sector, has dealt with different types of standard construction contracts (among them FIDIC contracts) as well as claims and disputes arising thereof and played a key role in high-stake contentious litigation and arbitration of complex construction disputes;

b. Intellectual Property and IPR licensing;

His notable engagements include:

• Represented a client on its claims against NIOC arising out of a contract for development of certain phases of South Pars gas field before the Ministry of Petroleum (MOP) Contractual Dispute Settlement Committee designed to settle the disputes between the MOP affiliates and their contractors. The dispute concerned the parties’ varied interpretations of the scope of the lump sum price of the contract and whether it included the optional and provisional items referred to in the contract. The evaluation of various variation orders was another point on which the parties disagreed. The aggregate sum in dispute was around USD 250,000,000 and the dispute committee ruled in my client’s favor.
• Negotiating and finalizing numerous EPC contracts in the oil, gas, petrochemical and power sector with a total value of more than USD 8.4 billion.
• Advising a shareholder of a petrochemical company in its differences and disputes with the other majority shareholder and the company itself;
• Advising an Iranian-foreign joint venture on their claims against a governmental company arising out of an investment contract for recovery of flare gases;
• Advising a major Iranian mobile operator on its claim against a giant EU telecom equipment supplier with a rough value of Euro 90 million;
• Advising a Petro refinery company with its USD 1 billion NGL EPCF project west Iran;
• Advising a Foreign-Iranian joint venture on their dealings with a governmental company for securing a project on EPCF/EPDF basis;
• Advising a Chinese car manufacturer on different aspects of its investment and business in Iran;
• Representing numerous clients in arbitration proceeding (both ad-hoc and institutional conducted under the auspices of ACIC)

– Petrochemical Research & Technology Company (NPC-RT), (July 2007- June 2010) & (Sep. 2004- March 2006) Legal advisor & contract negotiator;

– Iranian Aluminum Company (IRALCO), (Nov. 2003-Sep. 2004) legal advisor & contract negotiator;

– Presidential Committee for Technological Cooperation (TCO), (2002-2003) Researcher at Department of Law and Technology

– Judiciary Development High Council (JDC), (2002-2003) Researcher at Trade Law Committee.

– Design-Build Contract Compared with Other Contracting Methods, Legal Research Quarterly, No. 13 (Special edition), Summer 2013 (co-authored with Dr. M.A. Bahmaei);

– Licensing Agreements, Shahre Danesh Publication, Tehran, 2nd ed. 2014 (1393).