CORPORATE foreign direct investment
With the region focused on attracting foreign direct investment and facilitating a greater ease of doing business, charting the corporate legal landscape requires a law firm that understands the needs of local corporates, as well as the requirements of international investors seeking to penetrate the market. Our lawyers provide clients with the legal experience and market intelligence required to negotiate and close the most complex transactions, as well as provide practical counsel on clients’ day-to-day operations. We adopt a partner-based approach in working with corporates, taking time to fully understand our clients’ operations, strategic objectives and commercial goals to be able to deliver thoughtful, pragmatic legal advice for all our mandates.
Our corporate lawyers often serve as outside General or Special Counsel to co-ordinate and handle all legal aspects of our clients’ businesses – not just responding to problems as they arise but also identifying potential issues and addressing them proactively.
Representative Corporate transactions include:
- Advising Naghi Group in relation to the licensing and incorporation of its joint venture with Reckitt Benckiser in Saudi Arabia
- Advising GEMS Group Holdings Limited in connection with the restructuring of its existing joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Hassana
- Advising NADEC in relation to the structuring, licensing and formation of its Saudi joint venture trading company with Al Faisaliah Group, the first trading company to receive a foreign investment license from SAGIA following the accession of Saudi Arabia to the WTO
- Advising Khaled Juffali Automotive Company in relation to the structuring and formation of its joint venture with Yutong Bus for the distribution of Yutong buses and other vehicles in Saudi Arabia
- Advising L’Oréal in relation to the licensing and formation of L’Oréal KSA, a joint venture between L’Oréal and its distributor Naghi Group, in Saudi Arabia, and all subsequent work in relation to the joint venture company