About Newton Legal

Newton Legal is a Bahrain-based international law firm established in 2012 with the objective of providing world-class legal services throughout the Kingdom of Bahrain and the GCC region.

Since inception, Newton Legal has expanded into Qatar through a licensed branch at the Qatar Financial Center.

Newton Legal has grown to become the largest law firm in Bahrain with over 20 of the brightest Bahraini lawyers specializing across a number of practice areas, including Corporate & Commercial, Real Estate, Energy & Infrastructure, Dispute Resolution, Banking & Finance, Employment, TMT and Public International Law.

Setting Up Start-ups

Newton Legal signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Business Incubation Centre at the University of Bahrain in 2017 to support the business ideas of students affiliated with the university.
To expand our reach to startups, Newton Legal has also signed Memorandum of Understandings with a number of accelerators, such as Brinc, C5 and Flat6Labs, to provide legal services to Bahraini start-ups under their program.

Banking & Finance

Our team is experienced in providing Banking and Finance advice on a local and international scale.

Corporate & Commercial

Newton Legal has a prominent Corporate & Commercial practice in Bahrain.

Dispute Resolution

We advise clients on the full spectrum of dispute resolution including arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Employment

We provide legal advice for complex domestic and international employment-related matters.

Energy & Infrastructure

Our experience in the Energy and Infrastructure sector includes upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas transactions

Public Law

Our team advises governmental and state-owned companies on Public Law matters.

Real Estate

Our Real Estate practice ranges from specific property transactions to major projects with a real estate element.

Telecommunications, Media & Technology

Newton Legal advises some of the media and technology sector’s key players.

Transactions

Bahrain Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal

Bapco Refinery Modernisation

Sale of Skaugen

Bahrain Gasoline Blending

Gas Supply Agreement between Bapco and Alba

Tatweer Petroleum Share and Asset Transfer and DPSA Replacement

Airport Concessions

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Updates

Newton Legal presents on the Corporate Governance Code...

April 30, 2019

Newton Legal Group presented on the Corporate Governance Code which came into effect on 19 October 2018 at a legal training event hosted by Mumtalakat for the benefit of itself and its subsidiaries on ...

Newton Legal presents on the new Reorganisation and Bankruptcy Law...

March 20, 2019

Newton Legal Group presented on the Reorganisation and Bankruptcy Law which came into effect in December 2018 at an event hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce of Bahrain at the Capital Club on W ...

Newton Legal discusses new Corporate Governance Code...

November 15, 2018

Newton Legal Group, head of the legal special interest group of the Bahrain British Business Forum, presented at the Capital Club the recent changes to the Corporate Governance Code (Code) which came ...

Newton Legal discusses new FIDIC construction contract forms...

October 9, 2018

Changes to the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) contract forms and their effect on the construction industry were the theme of a panel discussion hosted by the Bahrain British ...

New Solicitors

September 1, 2018

Newton Legal associates, Sumana AbdulKarim and Othman AlKooheji, completed their period of Solicitors Regulatory Authority approved training with Newton Legal Group and were admitted as solicitors of the Senior Courts of England in May and September 2018 respectively.