Corporate and Commercial Counsel
Our Saudi based team of lawyers are extensively experienced in providing dedicated corporate and commercial counsel support services to our clients.
Services include:
- General assistance on regulatory, legislative and governance matters
- Advice to boards of directors and boards of management, including meetings, assemblies and commercial affairs
- Company secretarial duties
- Disclosure and filing assistance and advice for publicly listed corporate clients
- Assistance in forming, entering and exiting complex commercial contracts and in handling the drafting and negotiation of such contracts, including:
- Commercial agency agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Contracts for products and services
- Distribution agreements
- Engineering agreements
- Industry-specific technical documents
- Memorandums of understanding
- Supply agreements
- Drafting, implementation, and operation of:
- Internal policies and procedures
- Corporate procurement systems and agreements with contractors
- Employment affairs
- Assistance with intellectual property (IP) affairs, including:
- Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Maximizing IP protection, minimising the risk of IP litigation and helping implement licensing strategies
- Compliance audits and investigations, crafting anticorruption policies, codes of conduct and compliance programs, preparing comparative studies of global best practices and existing laws and regulations, and identifying incentives and sanctions
- Provision of training to employees on Saudi legal and regulatory issues
- Day-to-day support on corporate transactions and disputes
Disputes
We have strong experience in handling disputes where relationships have broken down – both in terms of acting in the Saudi courts and in relation to arbitrations seated in the Kingdom.
We regularly advise clients on contentious issues and disputes arising from areas of Saudi law, including:
- Commercial disputes (including agency and joint venture disputes) before the Commercial Court (previously the Board of Grievances)
- Saudi Customs claims before the Customs Disputes Committee
- Cases before the Banking Disputes and Commercial Papers Committees
- Administrative Cases before the Board of Grievances
- Shareholder and securities disputes before the Committee for the Resolution of Securities Disputes
- Real estate claims
- Disputes before the Labor Disputes Committee
- Matters before the Bureau of Public Investigations
- Claims before General Courts
- Enforcement claims
- Substantial project development disputes, including project finance, construction and joint venture claims related to projects in the Kingdom
Regulation, Legislation and Government Affairs
We have one of the most experienced legal practices in KSA and are regularly recognised as a leading law firm for regulatory and legislative matters throughout the region.
We offer a robust understanding of business, and of current regulatory schemes and worldwide industry operations, enabling us to help clients maximise their opportunities in high risk/high reward settings. We have experience providing legal and regulatory advice to a number of government entities and corporate clients in the Kingdom on various matters.
We are also a market leader in helping clients form, enter and exit complex commercial contracts, and in handling the drafting and negotiation of such contracts.
Our team has the experience in dealing with a number of key government bodies, such as – but not limited to – the Ministry of Investment, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the Saudi Food and Drug Authority, in relation to a variety of corporate transactions.
We have significant experience in government contracts, export controls, and regulations applicable to doing business with government entities.
Our team also advises sovereign wealth funds, investors, states and state-owned enterprises on their rights under commercial contracts, domestic and international law, investment legislation and investment treaties in numerous industries, including real estate.
