Extensive expertise for all our clients across a wide range of service areas

The Law Firm of Garoub represents major companies, institutions, and individuals in virtually every industry. Our litigators are widely recognized for their creativity, integrity, strategic approach and extensive experience. Clients benefit from our numerous partners and counsel who have many years of prior service in a variety of roles. The firm can rapidly assemble a focused, integrated and efficient team to address all important aspects of a client’s problem and to handle numerous cases in multiple jurisdictions and forums. We have handled some of the largest and most high-profile cases throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in recent years, earning a reputation as a go-to firm for litigation.

Our Regulatory Law Practice Group offers a broad range of services and experience in regulatory affairs and related areas. Our lawyers have successfully managed legal, regulatory, and public relations crises in local, national, and international arenas, preserving individual and corporate interests and reputations. Our firm combines substantive legal analysis with a sophisticated understanding of legislative and regulatory process. Our services range from assisting clients to navigate various legislative, regulatory and executive actions, to advising on existing and proposed laws and regulations, and ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations for our clients.

Attorneys in our corporate practice assess complex matters and provide commercially driver solutions for clients across a broad range of industries. With experienced judgment and exceptional client service, our attorneys are prepared for every challenge a global enterprise may encounter. For matters of corporate governance, we help clients analyze existing practices and disclosures and build creative solutions for matters relating to board of director structure and independence, executive compensation, regulatory compliance, internal policies, investigations, and others. In the high-stakes environment of corporate mergers and acquisitions, our attorneys bring holistic perspectives and commercial awareness to manage all aspects of a deal, not just the legal drafting. We counsel directors and executive management from preliminary negotiations all the way through the closing of the transaction. Whether it is an asset sale and purchase, bankruptcy, restructuring, strategic merger or a leveraged buyout, our clients can entrust our attorneys to deliver efficient and effective results for their most complex and demanding transactions.

Our Corporate Governance Lawyers bring practical judgment, innovation and a broad perspective to counseling boards and board committees, senior management and internal legal and compliance departments in the high-stakes and time-sensitive arena of the global corporate industry. Our services range from prospective counseling on risk management, disclosure or other compliance matters, to guiding companies through restatement of their financial statements, to fact‑finding exercises with respect to potential violations of laws or regulations or shareholder demands, and to managing the client’s responses to investigations and enforcement actions by governmental authorities and related private litigation.

Media and the way it is produced, distributed and consumed worldwide, is undergoing vast and rapid change. In a new age of entertainment deals, players and platforms, Garoub’s lawyers use commercial savvy and legal experience to advance and protect our clients’ interests. Our transactional attorneys have represented clients in some of the industry’s largest and most complex distribution, licensing and financing transactions in the region. We advised entertainment companies through the full range of legal issues that arise during the making of films, television and digital streaming series and other media productions including, but not limited to, entity formation, financing, recoupment structures, location releases, key crew and talent agreements, legal production services, development deals, and distribution deals among others.

The Intellectual Property Group advises clients on a broad range of intellectual property (IP) and technology issues confronting today’s businesses. The Group structures, drafts and negotiates IP- and technology-intensive transactions for clients ranging from early-stage startups to global companies. The Group also successfully represents clients in all stages of disputes and provides strategic business advice concerning all manners of intellectual property issues, including, trade secrets, trademarks and trade dress, patents, license agreements and disputes, copyrights and misappropriation, and advertising and consumer claims.

Our Real Estate Practice Group advises clients on the full array of complex issues throughout the industry. Owners, developers, funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and financial institutions enlist our representation in a broad array of commercial real estate transactions. We advise on the purchase, sale, development and financing of office, hotel, retail, multifamily, industrial and mixed-use properties, and we help clients navigate joint ventures, debt restructurings and commercial leasing. We bring a multifaceted perspective to each real estate opportunity and help to identify and address risks and develop practical legal strategies to meet our clients’ needs.

With increasing globalization, the need for trusted and knowledgeable cross-border transaction legal advisors are becoming increasingly important. Garoub’s lawyers work with clients on a broad range of international transactions, including international taxation matters, regulatory and government matters, international arbitration and dispute resolution, commercial and corporate transactions, international finance dealings and international commerce issues. We provide industry-based advice in a variety of areas, including banking and financial services; hospitality; retail; entertainment; media and telecommunications; transportation; marine and aviation; construction and infrastructure projects; energy, oil and gas; mining; and natural resources. Our constant objective is to deliver a successful closing for our clients in complex cross-border transactions by attention to detail and strategic planning every step of the way.

Clients engage us because of our long history of legal excellence, innovation and creative problem-solving. We provide effective and efficient advice through the lens of the commercial goals of our clients, who rely on our sophisticated judgment and unsurpassed client service in all types of M&A transactions. By understanding our clients’ strategic objectives, we help businesses around the world navigate the legal and commercial complexities of domestic and global cross-border M&A. We can execute any type of transaction, in any industry, economic climate or geographic region and take great pride in partnering with our clients as they pursue their objectives.

Garoub’s Capital Markets practice represents a diverse range of public and private companies of all sizes, investment banks, private equity firms, exchange-traded funds, and semi-governments entities. Whether a client is looking to raise equity, issue debt, construct a hybrid offering or conduct an IPO, our depth of experience and understanding of our client’s business objectives enable us to develop optimal strategies at each step of the transaction, coupled with a detailed and experience-based approach to the complexities of Saudi Arabian capital markets regulations.

Our Banking Law Practice Group advises banks and other financial institutions in connection with domestic and cross-border transactional, regulatory, supervisory, enforcement and governance matters. Our lawyers are highly regarded for crafting sophisticated and business‑oriented financing solutions for lenders and borrowers across several industries and regions. We work closely with each of our clients to develop a comprehensive transaction plan that achieves clear business objectives by both identifying potential business, regulatory, corporate, tax and other legal or commercial issues. Our depth of experience in numerous types of transactions aids this process, enabling us to act in a timely manner, both in the initial planning stage as well as in anticipating, assessing and addressing new developments as they inevitably arise during the course of a transaction.