Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm (AS&H) in co-operation with Clifford Chance

Yasser Al-Hussain

Yasser Alhussain is a Partner and Head of the Banking and Finance practice in Riyadh. Yasser has extensive experience advising on a wide range of project finance, bilateral and syndicated lending transactions as well on financial litigations. He is also an experienced litigator and has represented a large number of banks and financial institutions in their claims before Saudi Arabian courts which includes advising on what constitutes a market-first implementation of a large-scale court ordered settlement/enforcement process, under the recently adopted ‎Enforcement Law.

Ibrahim Al-Mansour

Majid Al-Sheikh

Majid Al-Sheikh is a Partner and Head of the Corporate practice in Riyadh. Majid has extensive experience in advising multinational and regional clients on a broad range of corporate and equity capital markets transactions including a number of “first of a kind” deals for the Saudi market.

Mansoor Alhagbani

Mansoor Alhagbani is a Partner and Head of the Capital Markets and Regulatory practice in Riyadh. Mansoor specialises in capital markets and regulatory and legislative drafting. Mansoor had worked for more than three years with the Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) where he was heavily involved in formulating and drafting various CMA rules and regulations, as well as representing the CMA before other government bodies to debate and discuss draft laws and regulations. More recently, Mansoor has been advising a number of CMA regulated entities on their compliance with CMA’s rules and regulations. Mansoor has also been advising a number of ministries and semi-government bodies (including Tadawul) to develop, formulate and draft various regulatory materials.

Aysh Chaudhry

Ahmed Choudhry specialises in finance and projects matters with significant Islamic finance experience. Ahmed has worked on a number of significant cross-border mandates and on complex multi-tranche financings. He advises on a wide range of Islamic finance products including project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and sukuk. Ahmed is the Africa Practice Leader for Islamic Finance.

Jim Cotins is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured finance, including all aspects of the securitization of loans and securities backed by commercial real estate, with a primary focus on CMBS, including multi-seller conduits, single borrower securitizations, CRE CLOs, net-lease securitizations and single-family rental securitizations (including both single borrower and multi-borrower deals). Jim regularly represents all the main participants in commercial real estate-related securitizations, including issuers, underwriters, collateral managers, loan sellers and a nationally recognized statistical rating agency organization. He also represents investors in the acquisition and financing of all types of commercial real estate-related assets, including whole loans, B-Notes, participations, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, bank loans, CMBS and REIT debt.

Anthony Giustini

Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders. Tony has several notable rankings, including Chambers (Chambers & Partners) Band 1 in Project & Energy France, and Project Finance Africa-wide. He is also listed in the Legal500 (Legalease Ltd.) Hall of Fame, and IFLR (Delinian Ltd.) across several categories.