Alaa Yamani, Ll.M Email & Phone Number

Expertise:• Providing accurate, relevant and timely advice (written & oral) on a variety of legal matters.• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating diverse types of MoUs, contracts, agreements, policies and procedures, bylaws and other legal documents.• Managing and mitigating legal risks for clients by implementing companies’ policies and procedures.• Ensuring compliance of companies with all applicable laws and regulations.• Advising executives, senior management and boards on various matters to help them make the right decisions.• Forming, amending and liquidating companies.• Restructuring companies, family business & private wealth.• Evaluating potential legal risk and advising senior management on taking the best measures.• Representing corporate clients in all legal claims, disputes, litigation and arbitration before various courts.Deals worked on include:• Advising a client regarding the acquisition of a water and energy company amounting to SAR 135 million.• Advising a government agency regarding its PPP initiatives.• Advising a regional jewelry company regarding the acquisition of a jewelry manufacturing factory.• Advising a Saudi water company regarding constructing a Desalination Plant in Yanbu.• Advising a Swiss company regarding a JV with a prominent Saudi company to construct and operate a rubber recycling plant in Saudi Arabia.• Advising a Saudi company regarding a JV agreement with a renowned Spanish company to provide Wastewater Treatment services.• Advising a local company regarding a deal to build and operate Diesel Fueled Power Plants.• Advising a European company regarding its tender documents to provide technical services to Jeddah Metro Company.• Advising a client teamed with Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) to establish NWC Training and Research Centre for Water Professions.• Advising a local company regarding bid documentation for a Power and Desalination Plant.• Restructuring many family businesses.• Revising pre-qualification documents for the 1st Saudi Data License.• Advising an Int’l bank (as a financial advisor) in connection with the 2nd Saudi GSM License.• Drafting and revising Islamic finance agreements (such as Murabaha, Maudaraba & Istisna’a,).• Assisted in revising the merger documents between the Saudi American Bank (SAMBA) and the United Saudi Bank (in Arabic and English).