Asem Al-Issa expertise
OUR EXPERTISE
Banking & Credit Consultations and Cases
The firm and its founder have handled hundreds of banking cases — through his prior role as a legal consultant at the Banking Disputes Settlement Committee for eleven years, through providing consultations to several banks, and through litigating dozens of specialized cases across all types of banking work while providing regulatory and Sharia-based opinions. During his tenure at the Banking Committee, the founder was assigned to study specialized and high-value cases, working on the committee for letters of credit, guarantees, and specialized cases. He also studied hundreds of debt cases, which gave him insight into the foundations of relationships between merchants, project contracts, bank agreements with clients, credit guarantees, facility agreements, causes of merchant and project defaults, settlement attempts between parties, and more. This has made the firm one of the leading specialists in this type of case across all subject areas.
Sub-specializations:
- Credit facilities of all types: overdrafts, current account (debit) agreements, bill discounting, equity speculation facility agreements, personal and commercial loans, installment sale contracts, and others
- Syndicated bank project financing cases
- Letters of credit and bank guarantees
- Equity and investment fund cases
- Foreign currency and precious metals margin trading contracts
- Option contracts
- Treasury operations and foreign exchange cases
- Bankruptcy cases
- Commercial paper, traveler’s checks, and credit card cases
- Forgery cases
- Murabaha, Istisna’a, and other Islamic banking transactions
- Amicable resolutions and settlements between banks and their clients
Corporate Governance Public and Family Companies
- Preparing corporate governance manuals and guidelines in accordance with the Capital Market Law and its implementing regulations
- Providing all governance-related legal consultations as required by the Capital Market Authority (CMA)
- Organizing family businesses, drafting family constitutions to preserve company continuity across generations, governing the separation of ownership from management, and ensuring integrity, transparency, and accountability across all company functions
- Preparing and drafting board of directors’ bylaws, committee regulations, meeting minutes, resolutions, and organizing all board activities
- Protecting shareholders of public companies, representing them in calling general assembly meetings, and filing class action lawsuits for compensation
- Preparing internal policies, regulations, procedures, and organizational frameworks for companies
- Employee affairs and labor regulations
Drafting Regulations & Bylaws
- The firm’s founder, during his tenure as a consultant at the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers, was involved in preparing numerous regulations, bylaws, organizational frameworks, studies, and agreements — reviewing and drafting them with precision. He provided opinions and studies on numerous topics referred by the Council of Ministers for review, drew upon comparative legal systems and practices from other countries, and worked within and led working groups. His close familiarity with regulations and directives, along with distinguished high-level government relationships, has made the firm one of the specialized offices with deep expertise in this precise field.
Labor Consultations & Cases
- Preparing internal labor regulations for companies and all required employment contracts and templates
- Labor and employment dispute cases
- Employer consultations
Real Estate Contributions Consultations & Cases
- Real estate contribution cases
- Providing consultations for real estate contributions
- Obtaining real estate contribution licenses
Corporate Litigation
- Litigating all types of corporate cases across their various branches
- Financial criminal cases
- Partnership dissolution cases
- Company liquidation
- Corporate bankruptcy cases
- Settlements and reconciliation between merchants
Capital Markets & Securities Consultations and Cases
- The firm specializes in providing legal consultations related to the Capital Market Law and its implementing regulations, including: licensing procedures, listing on the stock exchange, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, capital reduction or increase for public companies, equity investment agreements, custody services, financial derivatives, investment funds, sukuk and bonds. The firm has particular expertise in cases before the Committee for the Resolution of Securities Disputes — including civil, criminal, and administrative matters.
Corporate Legal Consultations & Incorporation
- Drafting corporate agreements of all types and negotiating their terms
- Incorporating companies of all types, recommending the optimal structure for each activity, drafting articles of incorporation and partner resolutions, and notarizing them with the relevant authorities
- Legal coverage for public company incorporation
- Legal and Sharia consultations for all types of companies
- Corporate restructuring with the most suitable legal framework for each company’s nature
- Converting legal entities from one form to another
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Organizing partnerships and their agreements
- Obtaining licenses from the General Investment Authority (SAGIA) and industrial/service licenses
- Providing legal consultations for those entering the Saudi market or current investors, covering all aspects of the Companies Law and Investment Law
Other Services
- Endowments (Waqf): establishing endowment companies and entities, proving their deeds, organizing and managing their investments
- Trademark, trade name, and intellectual property registration
- Inheritance and estate cases
- Land, trespassing, and boundary dispute cases
- Eminent domain and compensation cases
- Commercial paper cases: checks, promissory notes, and bills of exchange
- Execution cases and disputes
- Customs cases
- Zakat and income tax cases
- Insurance cases
- Bankruptcy and insolvency cases
- Preventive settlement from bankruptcy cases
- Forgery cases
- Supply and contracting cases
- Commercial fraud cases