Our Capital Markets team has extensive experience advising on a full range of equity and equity linked transactions, including initial public offerings, rights issues, private placements or debt capitalizations, as well as advising on securities law and corporate governance issues. With a depth of experience that stretches back to the early days of the Capital Market Law, the role of our team members in the development of capital markets in Saudi Arabia is unmatched. Among other things, our lawyers played an instrumental role in the development of the capital markets techniques that now routinely drive capital-raising transactions in Saudi Arabia and had prominent input into the Saudi securities regulations.

Our lawyers are also market leaders with significant experience in debt capital markets advising on KSA domestic issues as well as cross-border international Middle Eastern Reg S (and Reg S/144A) sukuk programs.

Our Islamic finance expertise as well compliments our capital markets expertise to ensure we have the best team to structure and execute any form of issuance.

Our experience includes a start to finish approach in both advising and implementation in all corporate governance and internal legal affairs matters such as entity set up, the internal governance structuring, administration and compliance, employment matters, and general commercial agreements, as well as significant transactions such as joint ventures, acquisitions, divestments, reorganisations, group structuring and restructuring.

STAT’s lawyers provide an offering that enables clients to leverage STAT’s deep experience and insight along with a strong capability of on the ground execution and implementation. Our team has extensive experience of advising on the drafting and negotiating of all forms of contractual arrangements.

We also provide a strong offering in the internal corporate and governance structuring which includes the preparation of all internal corporate governance policies and manuals.

By providing clients with practical, creative legal advice, our lawyers both prevent and resolve disputes while ensuring focus remains on their strategic and commercial objectives.
We have a unique offering of our “multi-practice” strength, advising our clients on disputes across the different practice and all the key industry sectors including industrial, financial institutions, energy, infrastructure, transport, technology and innovation and healthcare.

We provide clients in the Kingdom (including conventional and Islamic commercial banks, development finance institutions, corporates, investment funds and sovereigns) with advice on a range of conventional and Islamic financing issues relating to the structuring, development, documentation and negotiation of a variety of finance transactions.

Our finance lawyers in the Kingdom are experienced in, and work fluidly across, all aspects of financings. We regularly advise on:

On the Islamic finance front, our specialists have extensive experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating complex transactions and developing innovative Sharia-compliant techniques, including in relation to Murabaha, Ijara, Wakala, Istisna, Salam, Mudaraba, Musharaka and other structures including Sukuk issues.

Our Islamic finance capabilities span banking, capital markets, project finance, asset finance, restructuring and investment funds. We have advised on many of the “firsts” in Islamic finance.

We regularly advise leading international, regional and local asset managers and institutional investors on the formation and structuring of, and investment in, different types of investment funds in the Kingdom.

Our tailored approach, backed with our in-depth understanding of the regulatory and compliance issues, makes STAT the go-to counsel for both local and international assets managers and investors.

We recognize that every transaction, regardless of its size, is important to our clients. While we advise many of Saudi Arabia’s largest companies, investment banks and other regular participants in the M&A market, we also represent numerous clients that are not regularly engaged in M&A transactions.

We bring the same practical approach, creativity and commitment to excellence to each matter in which we are engaged. Clients rely on our team to guide them through transactions that will ultimately transform their organizations.

Corporations and financial advisors trust that we understand their business needs and that we will offer pragmatic and solutions-oriented advice, negotiating aggressively on their behalf and providing focused execution throughout each deal.

Combined with our transactional expertise, we also cover the full range of specialist areas to provide a 360-degree analysis of all related aspects of an M&A transaction, including antitrust and competition, commercial, employment and benefits, environmental, intellectual property, and corporate governance.

Our clients span a broad range of industries, including mining, energy, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and financial services.

Thanks to our involvement in the largest and most significant projects in the Kingdom as well as in many “mega” project finance projects, we have unrivalled knowledge of risk allocation and management, as well as the commercial, technical, market and political factors necessary to help you identify structures to maximize revenue generation and get the best value for our clients.

Our dedicated team of lawyers have wide-ranging knowledge in the development of concession-based and regulated infrastructure models and strong experience in running RFP procurement processes, which enables us to advise on all the aspects of the procurement through to financial close.

These include real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, restructuring, property management, development management and real estate financings.

Our clients enjoy our innovative approach especially given the current changes to the real estate regulatory landscape which in turn made real estate transactions in many cases more complex and highly structured. 

We work daily with key Saudi government ministries and agencies, including on the implementation of Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Plan. 

We are deeply familiar with the structure of the Saudi government and the institutional and regulatory framework in Saudi Arabia and regularly advise on regulatory reform projects, complex matters of public international law, transactions and disputes.