Nabil Issa > King & Spalding LLP > Dubai, United Arab Emirates > Lawyer Profile

King & Spalding in Affiliation With the Law Office of Mohammad Al-Ammar excels in top-end and complex financing, funds, and restructuring. Leading the practice, Zaid Al-Farisi, having returned to Riyadh in 2022, boasts extensive expertise in banking, financing, and restructuring in Saudi Arabia. The team also relies on the acumen of key practitioners like Nabil Issa, managing partner of the Riyadh and UAE offices, Mohammed Alammar – who excels in cross-border acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital – and Michael Rainey, an expert in representing lenders and borrowers in both conventional and Shari’ah-compliant financings.

Led by corporate and capital markets expert Nabil Issa, King & Spalding in Affiliation With the Law Office of Mohammad Al-Ammar has extensive expertise in capital markets work both on a conventional and Islamic basis. The group is particularly knowledgeable in transactions and structures regulated by the Saudi Arabian Capital Market Authority as well as work relating to listed Real Estate Investment Trusts, and is praised by clients for its ‘deep and extensive knowledge of regional fund management regulation and applicable fund structures’. James Stull, who advises on a wide variety of public and listed funds and whose knowledge of matters relating to financial services and funds structuring is described as ‘unmatched’, is also a key contact.

King & Spalding in Affiliation With the Law Office of Mohammad Al-Ammar has a thriving corporate, finance, and investments practice in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. The firm is well regarded in the market for its work concerning commercial contracts. Nabil Issa spearheads the practice; he specialises in advising on innovative funds and investment structures for real estate and private equity investments in Saudi Arabia.  James Stull often advises on corporate transactions, including issuance of share capital, business combination agreements, and preparing relevant documents to the Capital Market Authority. Both individuals are based in Dubai.