Overview
The Kingdom’s capital markets continue to evolve rapidly, creating significant opportunities and increasingly sophisticated legal and regulatory considerations for companies, financial institutions and investors.
We advise clients across the full spectrum of capital markets matters, combining detailed knowledge of the Kingdom’s regulatory framework with a commercial understanding of the transactions and businesses involved. Our experience spans equity and debt offerings, public and private transactions, investment funds, securities regulation, capital market licensing, fintech, and corporate governance and disclosure matters.
Our capital markets capabilities include:
- Funds and asset management
- Public M&A
- Private sale transactions
- Securities business and regulation
- Capital market licensing
- Initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Rights issues
- Debt conversions
- Public and administrative law disputes
- Public company corporate governance and disclosure
- Fintech
- Investment funds
- Real estate investment funds and REITs
We advise clients throughout the lifecycle of capital markets transactions, from structuring and regulatory approvals through execution, ongoing compliance and governance.
Our capital market licensing experience includes advising local and international companies, financial institutions and investment banks on the establishment and licensing of capital market institutions in the Kingdom. We advise on activities including dealing in securities, arranging securities transactions, custody, managing securities and providing investment advice, and assist clients throughout the licensing process, including engagement with the Capital Market Authority (CMA), incorporation before the Ministry of Commerce and, where applicable, foreign investment licensing before the Ministry of Investment.
Following incorporation and licensing, we advise capital market institutions on their ongoing regulatory and governance obligations, including compliance frameworks, governance, outsourcing arrangements, periodic reporting, client records, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest and risk management. We also advise licensed institutions on mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions, taking into account the regulatory requirements applicable to their activities.
Our lawyers work across practices to provide integrated advice on transactions and regulatory matters involving multiple legal and commercial considerations.
