Biography
Hans Jurie Zietsman is an admitted Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa and a Senior Legal Counsel with extensive international experience in the engineering, construction, energy, petrochemical, and mining sectors. He combines private practice experience with in-house legal expertise in complex, high-value, and highly regulated environments.
He obtained his LLB degree from the University of Pretoria in 2006. In 2010, he completed a Master of Laws (LLM) in Contract Law at the University of Pretoria. He further strengthened his specialist expertise by obtaining a second Master of Laws (LLM) in Construction Law and Practice from the University of Salford, United Kingdom in 2017. He is also a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society in recognition of academic achievement, having ranked within the top 15% of his LLB cohort.
Zietsman served his articles and practised law at Ross & Jacobsz, a South African law firm established in 1892, from January 2006 to May 2009.
In June 2009, Zietsman joined Foster Wheeler in their Contracts department, receiving a promotion to Legal Counsel in August 2013. He was assigned to work as Legal Counsel at the operational headquarters of Foster Wheeler in the United Kingdom. Zietsman was further promoted by Amec Foster Wheeler to Senior Legal Counsel in April 2017.
In December 2017, Zietsman joined Qatar Chemical Company in Qatar as Senior Legal Counsel, and has continued here since then.
Zietsman is a member of the Association of Arbitrators and the Legal Practice Council, Gauteng Provincial Office.
Zietsman has acted as arbitrator and adjudicator in engineering and construction disputes in his native country, and has proven experience in engineering and construction law, negotiation, compliance, sanctions, export controls, antitrust law, anti-bribery and corruption law, dispute resolution, and corporate governance. His experience is across business lines that include oil & gas, energy, mining & mineral processing and petrochemical.
Hans Jurie Zietsman LLB, LLM, LLM, FAArb