Yasser Alkhelaiwi

Yasser Alkhelaiwi is a counsel in our Saudi Arabian Capital Markets practice. He has extensive experience in advising regional clients in the securities and equity capital markets transactions in Saudi Arabia. In addition, Yasser’s experience also includes advising clients in relation to mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, governance and restructuring matters, and litigation.

Yasser is a qualified lawyer in Saudi Arabia, licensed by the Ministry of Justice and is a member of the Saudi Arabian Bar Association.


Raneem Alsuhaibani

Raneem is a counsel in our regulatory and government advisory practice. She has extensive experience advising government entities on matters relating to their regulatory functions, sector governance reforms, national strategies implementation plans, and general legal/regulatory challenges.

Raneem also has experience advising corporate clients, both Saudi and international, on various matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance, construction projects, and complex commercial contracts.


Anna Leung

Anna Leung is a counsel in our Capital Markets practice. She has advised both issuers and managers on a range of capital markets transactions including IPOs, debt capital markets transactions, project bonds and securitisation.

Anna has worked on many high-profile transactions including the first Rule 144a securities offering by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Aramco’s iconic IPO, the first Sukuk offering by the Kingdom’s Ministry of Finance and the first 144a corporate bond offering by a Kuwaiti corporate.


Mariya McDonnell

Mariya McDonnell is a counsel in our Capital Markets practice. As part of her private practice experience, Mariya has advised both sovereign and corporate issuers and managers on debt capital markets transactions and liability management transactions in Europe, the CIS, Middle East and Africa. She also has extensive capital markets in-house legal counsel experience at a global investment bank in London, UK.

Immediately prior to joining STAT, Mariya worked at a Saudi firm advising PIF companies and giga-projects on corporate, commercial, regulatory and compliance matters.