Consultation Services

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Private Companies and Investments

Our private company and investment team provides advice on all aspects of doing business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Our extensive expertise covers a broad spectrum of commercial and corporate activities, including partnerships and establishments, joint ventures, capital structures, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance.

We provide advisory support to our clients on complex international and cross-border transactions. Our lawyers have a deep understanding of political, economic, and cultural complexities accompanying negotiations and cross-border acquisitions structuring, aiming to minimize potential disruptions that could affect business progress. We represent our clients across a wide range of commercial and financial transactions, including negotiating and structuring international joint ventures and cross-border acquisitions, strategic alliances, acquisition financing, and equity investments. Our team has extensive experience in managing the most complex and demanding due diligence operations.


Banking & Financial Services and Capital Markets

The firm is positioned as one of the leading law firms in the fields of finance and capital markets in the Kingdom and regularly represents prominent participants in the Kingdom’s financial and capital markets sector, including banks, Capital Market Institutions (CMIs)/investment banks, and the regulatory authorities overseeing them.

Our team is contracted on a regular basis to provide advice on capital markets, securities regulation, and development of banking policies for governments, regulatory authorities, and international institutions. Our team provides advisory services on a broad range of matters across the Middle East and globally, including Shariah-compliant financing structures, initial public offerings (IPOs), public and private offerings of securities, Sukuk, the structuring and establishment of investment funds (including real estate investment funds (REIFs) and private equity funds), the regularization of financial institutions, banking acquisitions, projects finance, and major commercial transactions.


Properties and Real Estate Development

Our team has extensive legal expertise in structuring real estate projects, including procurement, development, financing, advisory services, management, operation, maintenance, sale, and leasing. We are aiming to facilitate transactions by leveraging our deep knowledge of laws and our ability to address the complexities of real estate laws and regulations, in addition to handling unclear tax implications that may arise therefrom.

Our team provides advisory and representation services for owners, developers, international investors, investment funds, lenders, and underwriters across acquisitions, construction, development, ownership, operation, leasing, financing, and securitization of all types of real estate assets. Our team provides advice to clients on structuring real estate funds while also covering real estate loan financing and syndicated loan arrangements. Transactions related to real estate finance are structured in close coordination with our banking and financing services team. We provide guidance on hotel and leisure facility acquisitions, development, and sale, and management & operating contracts.


Establishing Partnerships

We prepare and draft Articles of Association for various types of companies under the Saudi Companies Law framework, carry out the required legal procedures for incorporation and registration, provide relevant legal advice, including the structuring and management of shares and equity, transfer of ownership, and all legal and regulatory actions and amendments pertaining to the Articles of Association; in addition to incorporating foreign and multinational companies and their branches, in light of private international law, World Trade Organization regulations, and international commercial contracts.


Foreign Investment

Our Firm undertakes the necessary statutory procedures before the Ministry of Investment to register investments and obtain the required licenses for commercial and industrial establishments. We also outline the excluded activities to enable investors to direct their investments properly without obstacles, and represent them before all relevant government agencies relevant to their investment in accordance with the Foreign Investment Law.


Contracts and Agreements

We study, prepare, and draft all types of civil, commercial, and administrative contracts and agreements in Arabic, English, and French, review them, participate in their negotiations and requirements, and provide legal advice in relation thereto.


Intellectual Property

We conduct due diligence related to intellectual property rights, handle related procedures, and provide advice concerning trademarks and their registration, copyrights, obtaining approvals for industrial designs and patents, and registering various intellectual property rights with the official authorities across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Arab states, and foreign countries, while taking the necessary legal measures to protect the rights of the clients, pursue judicial action against any infringement of any kind, and manage intellectual property infringement cases.


Agencies and Business Franchise

We draft agency, franchise, and distribution agreements; handle negotiations for their conclusion between the parties; and finalize their registration with the competent official authorities, including the issuance of relevant certificates.


Insurance

We review and study insurance contracts and policies concluded by enterprises and commercial companies with insurance providers, in addition to providing advisory services relating to the insurance sector and to potential or arising disputes from insurance contracts, including (fire, accident, liability, and professional hazards), in accordance with insurance regulations and rules.


Employment

We prepare and draft work regulations within institutions and companies, then obtain approvals from the Ministry of Labor. We also prepare, draft, and develop administrative structures and the associated job descriptions; merging, canceling, and creating jobs and their compatibility with the labor law and the resulting effects; as well as drafting employment contracts to regulate the relationship between the employee and the employer and providing legal consultations regarding all disputes arising from the employment relationship.


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