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Norton Rose Fulbright Offices

Norton Rose Fulbright
AL-NAKHLAH TOWER, 17TH FLOOR
KING FAHAD ROAD, AS SAHAFAH
PO BOX 52681 RIYADH
Saudi Arabia
Visit website 966 11 279 5400

Norton Rose Fulbright > The Legal 500 Rankings

Saudi Arabia > Banking and finance Tier 2

Norton Rose Fulbright has a stellar reputation for its adept handling of intricate cross-border financings. Team leader Robin Balmer, based in Riyadh and Dubai, specializes in asset, project, and property finance, as well as shariah-compliant transactions. In April 2023, Abdulkhaliq Elshayyal joined the Riyadh office as a partner in the banking and finance team. David Johnston, recently promoted to partner in 2022, focuses on major project finance transactions. Associate Hesa Al Saad is a notable junior lawyer within the firm.

Practice head(s):

Robin Balmer

Other key lawyers:

David Johnston; Hesa Al Saad

Work highlights

  • Advised HSBC and SMBC International Bank on a $1.165bn green loan dual-tranche commodity murabaha financing to Al Rajhi Bank.
  • Advised Bank Albilad and Bank Aljazira on a $1.165bn commodity murabaha financing to Hamad and Ahmed Mohammed Almozaini Real Estate Co.
  • Advised The Saudi British Bank on the financing arrangements to Shuaibah Three Water Desalination Company in relation to the Shuaibah 3 power generation and seawater desalination project.

Saudi Arabia > Dispute resolution Tier 2

Saudi Arabia > Projects and energy Tier 2

Norton Rose Fulbright has great experience in advising Saudi Arabian and regional banks in conducting public private partnerships and general legal matters for large infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia. While the firm conducts a significant amount of work from its London and Dubai offices, practice head David Johnston is based in Riyadh, where he advises on a large variety of infrastructure works, including renewable energy, car parks and water production projects.

Practice head(s):

David Johnston

Testimonials

‘Broad experience in PPP projects across a variety of industries and sectors. Good depth of expertise on the ground in Riyadh.’

‘David Johnston is particularly excellent – super responsive and provides pragmatic and commercially focused advice.’

‘The team is responsive, knowledgeable and possesses a vast amount of experience handling precedent transactions that was extremely helpful in completing our legal due diligence on multiple transactions.’

‘The entire team was exceptional on the recent transaction we worked on together with the team.’

Key clients

Emirates District Cooling (Emicool)

Al Fransi Bank

Bank Al Jazira

Saudi Awwal Bank – SAB (previously SABB)

ACWA Power

Jinko

Metitio

Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail & Yanbu (Marafiq)

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

National Bank of Kuwait

Ahli United Bank

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Work highlights

  • Advising in relation to financing arrangements provided by The Saudi British Bank to Shuaibah Three Water Desalination Company in relation to the Shuaibah 3 power generation and seawater desalination project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Advising the lenders’ counsel on the Rabigh-4 independent water production (IWP) project.

Saudi Arabia > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 4

Norton Rose Fulbright > Firm Profile

The firm: Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4000 lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Areas of practice: Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com

Offices: We have offices in the world’s most important business, financial and regulatory centres and are active in strategically important growth markets. Our offices are located in Amsterdam, Athens, Austin, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Brussels, Calgary, Canberra, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Durban, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Jakarta (in association with Norton Rose Fulbright Australia), Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Minneapolis, Monaco, Montréal, Moscow, Munich, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, Port Moresby, Québec, Rio de Janeiro, Riyadh (in association with Mohammed Al-Ghamdi Law Firm), San Antonio, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, St Louis, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Warsaw and Washington, DC. In Africa, we have alliances with firms in Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Zimbabwe

Number of partners (worldwide): 1,000+
Number of other fee-earners (worldwide): 2,000+
Total staff: 7,500+

Global key contacts
Financial institutions: James Bateson
Energy: Anne Lapierre and John Mauel
Infrastructure, mining and commodities: Nick Merritt
Transport: Harry Theochari
Technology: Nick Abrahams
Life sciences and healthcare: Stacey Martinez and Randy Sutton

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Financial institutions Patrick Bourke
Energy Charles Whitney
Infrastructure, mining and commodities Joanne Emerson Taqi
Transport Harry Theochari
Technology and innovation Sean Murphy
Life sciences and healthcare Huw Evans

Lawyer Profiles

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Mohammed Al-Ghamdi photo Mohammed Al-Ghamdi Partner View Profile
Robin Balmer photo Robin Balmer Partner View Profile

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Other offices : In Africa, it has alliances with firms in Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Zimbabwe.