Our corporate and commercial lawyers specialize in M&A and joint ventures, and advise clients on the formation and structuring of corporate entities, reorganizations, shareholder rights and management structures. We also have extensive experience in advising clients on regulatory and compliance and competition matters, as well as commercial litigation and arbitration practice enabling us to represent clients in contentious and non-contentious commercial matters in the Kingdom.
Our dedicated Capital Markets practice group specializes in both equity and debt capital markets. We've been involved either as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel in numerous debt and equity offerings. Since the advent of the Capital Markets Law, the Firm has acted as transaction counsel on more than 30 IPOs in Saudi Arabia — more than any other law firm.
Our Banking & Finance lawyers regularly advise sponsors and companies, private equity funds, banks and other financial institutions. We specialize in project finance, trade finance, government and ECA finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance, general corporate finance, aircraft and other asset based finance, debt restructuring & insolvency, derivatives, funds and Islamic financing transactions.
With a dedicated team of lawyers, we have been involved in some of the most significant Islamic finance transactions in the Gulf region, and are recognized as experts in this field. We're experienced in structuring, documenting and advising on a wide range of Islamic banking and finance products currently being used by Islamic banks and financial institutions, including murabaha, mudaraba, Istisna’a and parallel Istisna’a, ijara, musharaka, wakala, sukuk, Islamic funds and various Islamic treasury products.
Our projects lawyers also work on public private partnerships (PPP) across several jurisdictions — a hot topic in the region as governments are increasingly using this model to execute their economic and social infrastructure projects. With extensive real estate experience in the Gulf region, we advise clients on all stages of the real estate lifecycle, from the initial land acquisition to corporate structuring and joint venturing, project financing, construction, development, sub-division, titling and leasing. Our construction lawyers advise on tendering, contracts and constructions disputes.
