Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates<br>Law Firm

Our Services

Our Services

Legal Practices

We work alongside our clients to drive growth that is both sustainable and inclusive.

1- International Cases and Arbitration

  • Arbitration and litigation: Our clients can benefit from our expertise in all types of local and international courts and judicial committees through resolving, settling and following up on claims and disputes.
  • Providing international legal consultations
  • Drafting international commercial contracts and agreements
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments in KSA
  • Legal representation of local and foreign companies in litigation inside and outside of kingdom
  • Establishing companies inside and outside KSA and obtaining tax exemptions

2-Corporate and Governance

Companies

  • Establishing companies
  • Amending the articles of incorporation
  • Merges and transfer of corporate ownership
  • Issuance of commercial and industries licenses
  • Liquidation of companies
  • Extracting commercial records
  • Company establishment services for foreigners
  • Drafting and preparing contracts, regulations and documents for company registration
  • Providing advice to clients on:
  • Building global compliance programs
  • Developing codes of conduct, governance and other compliance policies
  • Conduct risk assessments
  • Evaluation of existing anti-corruption programs
  • Staff training

Establishment of Legal Departments

  • Drafting the company’s internal regulations
  • Claiming rights with third parties and representing the company before commercial courts
  • Preserving investments and sparing material losses resulting from legal chaos
  • Conducting investigations in the company and studying complaints and grievances
  • Preparing contracts, research, and periodic reports
  • Examining all applicable legal procedures within the company
  • Protecting employees from arbitrary decisions that may be taken against them
  • Structuring the corporate legal departments system
  • Responding to all legal inquiries regarding the company’s rights and obligations
  • Representing the company before all courts and judicial authorities of all types and degrees

Corporate Governance

  • Providing specialized legal advice on corporate governance in KSA
  • Drafting contracts and regulations related to meetings and others
  • Preparing corporate governance reports, manuals, and plans
  • Building the organizational structure of the company
  • Evaluating the governance system in Saudi companies
  • Reviewing annual reports and disclosures
  • Assisting in making decisions that contribute to reducing company risks
  • Cooperating with financial officials in solving current and potential financial problems

Mergers and acquisitions

We provide advice on a full range of corporate activities:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Reorganizations and restructurings
  • Asset and business transfers
  • Joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, and equity investments
  • Corporate governance, compliance, and internal policies
  • Commercial contracts including franchise, distribution, and outsourcing agreements

Franchise

  • District development concession
  • Individual, direct, sales, partnership, and main franchise
  • Transformational, turnkey, investment, functional, and single unit privilege
  • Completion of the commercial franchise registration procedures at the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • Drafting bilingual commercial concession contracts

Online Stores

  • Drafting privacy policies with their terms and conditions
  • Drafting the usage policy for using stores, websites, platforms, and applications

3-Bankruptcy and it’s protective settlement

Bankruptcy

  • Filing and registering bankruptcy applications before commercial courts
  • Submitting requests to open a financial restructuring procedure before the commercial courts
  • Debt collection from a defaulted or bankrupt debtor
  • Implementation and follow-up of liquidation procedures
  • Representing clients before the competent courts

Financial Restructuring

  • Debt restructuring and collection
  • Submission of liquidation requirements
  • International debt tracking and collection
  • Restructuring of public and family companies

4- Banking and financial market business

Finance and banking

We provide specialized consultations in the following legal areas:

  • Bank lending: We advise on the full range of banking transactions including secured and unsecured bilateral and syndicated loans, leveraged and acquisition finance, rescheduling and restructuring, and loan transfers
  • Islamic finance: We deliver financing solutions specific to our client’s needs

Financial market services

  • Representing a financial company licensed by the Capital Market Authority in relation to establishing a private equity fund.
  • Representing a financial company licensed by the Capital Market Authority in relation to establishing a real estate investment fund to invest in commercial real estate.
  • Providing legal advice to several investment funds regarding their operations and legal issues.
  • Representing companies in relation to the initial public offering of part of their shares in the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul)
  • Representing companies in relation to increasing their capital through the issuance of rights for shares.
  • Representing several financial and investment companies licensed by the capital market authority and authorized individuals who work as fund managers.
  • Providing legal advice on policy issues and strategic matters related to the Saudi financial services sector.

Stock Business

  • Providing services to local and international companies wishing to conduct securities business in KSA, regarding dealing in securities (brokerage), arranging procedures in relation to securities business, credit, management, and advice.
  • Providing continuous advice to investment banks and financial market institutions regarding the conduct of their business, including the preparation of securities announcements, authorization arrangements and periodic reports, maintenance of customer records and fiduciary duties due to customers, conflicts of interest and risk assessment, investigations related to securities, and general compliance with issued regulations About the Capital Market Authority.

Financial Market Licences

  • Dealing with the Capital Market Authority regarding the licensing of financial market institutions, starting with defining all licensing requirements, assisting with the application, and licensing process, and preparing all required incorporation documents. We also carry out all the requirements of the incorporation process before the Ministry of Commerce, and the foreign investment licensing process with the Ministry of Investment in the necessary cases.
  • Providing advice on general compliance with relevant regulations issued by the Capital Market Authority, including governance requirements, authorization arrangements, periodic reports, customer record keeping, fiduciary duties due to customers, conflicts of interest, and risk assessment.

IPOs

  • Providing legal assistance in conducting the IPO evaluation, completing restructuring, withholding and dismissal transactions prior to the IPO, performing legal due diligence examination, advising on recommended steps, and drafting the prospectus
  • Assistance in applying procedures to the Capital Market Authority and the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and others for submitting to the competent authorities

Investment Funds

  • Providing legal advice to fund managers and unit owners in drafting terms and conditions of investment funds and basic agreements, including framework, management, and development agreements
  • Advising fund managers and unit holders on listing public investment funds, including preparing the required documents that include filing with the Capital Market Authority and the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)

5- Labour Regulations

Work regulations

  • Drafting and updating work regulations in accordance with the Saudi Labour Law
  • Approving work regulations in the relevant authorities in KSA

Labour Disputes and Consultations

  • Solving labour problems and disputes
  • Raising all labour cases in the competent courts
  • Drafting and reviewing work regulations governing institutions and companies
  • Providing solutions to the problems that workers may face, such as arbitrary dismissal, unjustly reduced salary, unlawfully denied vacations, and compulsory transfer
  • Cancellation of employment contracts
  • Submitting complaints to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development
  • Submitting claims and collecting compensation for work injuries

6- Administrative Deputes

  • Settlement of disputes related to administrative law, cancellation and compensation claims.
  • Representing clients from the public and private sectors before the Board of Grievances and other Saudi administrative courts

Public/Private projects and partnerships

  • Our team advices on all phases of PPP projects including concessions, design, build, operation, and private financing initiatives.

7- Real Estate and Construction

Real Estate Liquidation Services

  • Completing and finalizing estate liquidation procedures
  • Providing legal advice to families
  • Supervising the liquidation of the estate to its beneficiaries
  • Conducting the audit related to valuation of assets

Real Estate & Construction

We provide advice on:

  • Real estate context, financing, and funds
  • Public sector consents
  • Construction and additional corporate matters

Real Estate Acquisition

  • Providing legal advice to many companies operating in the real estate sector
  • Drafting, reviewing and providing legal advice in relation to several contracts and agreements
  • Preparing due diligence reports
  • Providing legal advice on establishing real estate and contracting companies
  • Representing many financial and investment companies licensed by the Capital Market Authority who work as fund managers

Hotel and Hospitality

  • Drafting, preparing, and reviewing management and operation contracts and agreements and determining the obligations of the relevant parties
  • Providing specialized legal advice

8-Insurance, Zakat and Tax Law

Insurance law

  • Representation in regular and subrogated claims
  • Advising well-known insurance groups on their insurance legal requirements, laws, and regulations and assisting foreign companies with licensing and establishment in the region
  • Negotiation of settlements and representation in arbitration and litigation matters
  • Advising on insurance claims and credit insurance policies

Zakat Law

  • Providing accurate and integrated legal solutions
  • Preparing appeals against Zakat

Tax Law

  • Providing advanced tax services
  • Assisting in domestic and international corporate tax planning and counselling
  • Preparing appeals against Zakat and tax assessment to the competent committees

9- Intellectual Property and Technology

Intellectual property

  • Registration of trademarks and intellectual property
  • Providing legal advice regarding trademark registration system
  • Registration of industrial designs and submitting applications to WIPO
  • Preparing reports for ISA and IPEAs

Media and IT Law

We offer legal assistance to Media and IT companies in drafting various agreements, policies, and terms & conditions for various purposes.

Cyber Security

We provide specialized legal advice to our clients on legal issues related to the threat of cyberattacks and guide clients through a clear and practical framework on the regulatory controls and rules issued by the National Cybersecurity Authority

10- Legal Translation

  • Laws and regulations
  • Contracts and agreements
  • Documents related to company incorporation
  • Judgments, regulations, and court documents
  • Documents legal notes and judgements
  • Certificates and licenses
  • Wills and patents
  • Witness statements and credentials
  • Assignments of judicial liquidators
  • Electronic or handwritten notifications
  • Marriage and divorce procedures

11-Sports Law

We provide a wide range of legal consultations and services in the sports field including contract negotiation, representation, media, public relations, disciplinary procedures, and image rights.

12-Investigations, Enforcement, and Disputes Related to Business Crimes

  • Advising clients on criminal investigations, including corruption, bribery, money laundering, financial and tax fraud, antitrust, sanctions, and insider dealings.
  • Helping manage the legal, commercial, and reputational risks often associated with financial and regulatory crime cases

13-Inheritance

  • Establishing and following up on legal disputes or amicable divisions between heirs regarding the division of real estate, financial and movable estates locally and internationally, including the evaluation of these funds and assets, diving them among the heirs as a trust for their legal shares, and implementing wills.
  • Assisting and providing legal and sharia solutions and opinions regarding estates.

Cooperation with Foreign Law Firms

Since its establishment, our firm has maintained a professional relationship with a number of well-known law firms around the world. As a result of this relationship, the firm has been recommended to many foreign companies interested in establishing business projects in KSA. Furthermore, the Firm had been nominated to provide Saudi Legal Opinion in number of international arbitration cases, related to certain disputes.

Careers

Careers

Why Work with Us?

When joining “Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates Law Firm”, you will work with lawyers who are Saudi and Non-Saudi leaders in different practice areas of law specialising in litigation such as commercial law, criminal litigation, civil litigation, bankruptcy, arbitration, administrative law, and labour law as our main areas of practice. You will work on the largest, most complex, and innovative transactions in Saudi and become part of a team of highly respected experts.

Mr. Abdulaziz K. Shukri

Mr. Abdulaziz K. Shukri

(Managing Partner)

  • Partner
  • Associate Attorney
  • BA in Law, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, 2005
  • (LLM) International Commercial Law, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2007
  • Member of (FLAG) Foreign Advocates at Georgetown since 2006
  • Member of “Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates Law Firm” since 2005

Dr. Mohamed Sami Boraei

Dr. Mohamed Sami Boraei

(Senior Partner)

  • Attorney and Legal Consultant
  • (L.L.B), Cairo University, 1968
  • Member of Egyptian Bar Association, practicing as a lawyer before Egypt Supreme Court
  • Practiced law in Egypt since 1968
  • Founder of the Mohammed Sami Boraei Law Office, Cairo, Egypt
  • Member of “Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates Law Firm” since 1976

Dr. Kamal H. Shukri

Dr. Kamal Hussein Shukri

(Named Partner)

  • Partner
  • BA in Civil Engineering, University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1978
  • (MIPP) MA in International Public Policy, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA, 1988
  • MA in International Relations and International Economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. MD, USA, 1991
  • (J.D.) Juries Doctor Degree in Common Law, Washington College of Law, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1991
  • Member of “Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates Law Firm” since December 1992 until 2012
  • Founder and managing partner of ‘’Kamal Hussein Shukri & Associates Law Firm’’ since 2013