The Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) has won for the second time the ‘Best Legal Affairs Department (Large Team) Award’ for 2020 at the recently held fifth annual Qatar Business Law Forum Awards ceremony.
The MoCI is the strategic partner of the forum, which saw the participation of many government agencies, departments and professional institutions related to business law. The forum was held on December 9 through video conferencing.
Many competing groups from the government and private sector were shortlisted for the awards. The evaluation was conducted by a committee consisting of 10 local and global arbitrators specialised in the field of law. The legal affairs department previously won the Best Legal Affairs Department (Large Team) Award in 2018. The honour was received by Hilal bin Mohamed al-Khulaifi, the director of the Department of Legal Affairs at the ministry.