The discipline of mediating the dispute,
not litigating it.
PDR is a specialist mediation-led chambers advising landowners, developers, contractors and institutional capital — with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates and cross-border mandates across the wider GCC. We exist for a single purpose — to resolve real-estate and construction matters at the table, in confidence, before they reach a tribunal or a court list.
Our work is organised around five focused areas — chaired mediation of contractor disputes, EPC and FIDIC project mediation, pre-contract risk architecture, real-estate dispute resolution and rent, lease and inheritance advisory. Every engagement is led by senior counsel and delivered through structured settlement, not adversarial process.
Confidential settlement in weeks rather than arbitration cycles measured in years. Fixed retainers aligned to client risk. Sealed-file discretion as standard. Senior partners — not delegates — at the table from first meeting to final agreement. This is how we preserve asset value, programme dates and the commercial relationships our clients depend on.
Chaired sessions convened on the project itself — variations, delay and payment disputes closed in weeks, with the programme intact and the file sealed.
From tower cranes in Dubai to EPC across the GCC — we sit between employer, contractor and sub-contractor to broker settlement on the project, not in a tribunal.
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Principal chambers · Mediation & real-estate committees
Cross-border mediation across the Gulf — giga-projects & EPC counsel