Yaman Al-Hawamdeh

About Yaman

Yaman is the UAE Managing Partner and heads HFW’s shipping and logistics team in the Middle East. He has more than 20 years of experience and has built a strong regional practice across the GCC and Middle East.

Yaman is highly regarded for both his shipping and logistics experience. His practice focuses on regional marine and transport disputes across the region. This includes collisions and other types of marine casualties including salvage and pollution. He represents a number of International Group P&I Clubs, local banks, shipowners and Port & Terminal’s operators in the Middle East region.

Yaman also regularly advises on non-disputes shipping and logistics’ regulatory and contracts issues within the transport sector.

In addition, Yaman has extensive experience of handling proceedings involving corporate fraud and various finance disputes related to commodities and trade.

Highly regarded for his local litigation experience, Yaman also specialises in regional disputes across the Middle East. He has successfully litigated a substantial number of disputes and acted in high profile cases within the Middle East throughout the last two decades.

Yaman is a regular conference speaker, presenting papers locally and internationally on laws and regulations of the UAE and other civil law states within the Middle East.

Publications include The Law Reviews, the Shipping Law Review United Arab Emirates.

Yaman is qualified in Jordan.

What the market says about Yaman

Yaman has retained his Band 1 ranking in Shipping Dispute Resolution by Chambers Global UAE for the last 10 years. Client testimonials from the 2025 edition include:

• “I have gone to him for years on a number of shipping cases and I will continue to do so. It’s always a good experience working with Yaman.” Chambers UAE Transportation: Shipping: Dispute Resolution 2025
• “Yaman is an excellent lawyer who consistently provides high-quality advice. He is also very pragmatic and like all good advisers tells you what you need to hear.” Chambers UAE Transportation: Shipping: Dispute Resolution 2025
• “Yaman is fantastic. He is knowledgeable, with a deep understanding of the sector. He makes things easy, is hands-on and gives practical solutions. He is like an extension of our in-house team.” Chambers UAE Transportation: Shipping: Dispute Resolution 2025

Yaman is also recognised as a Leading Individual in Shipping by Legal 500 EMEA 2024.