Saeed Algarni, Legal Consultant

Saeed Algarni

Legal Consultant

Al Rajhi Bank - Head Office

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Intellectual Property Law
Experience
9 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 2 Months

Legal Consultant at Al Rajhi Bank - Head Office
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2015

• Led the consultancy in the Legal Department to achieve the Bank’s goals in several complex, high profile cases.
• Enhanced the performance in the unit by headhunting, managing and directing all the consultants who noticeably made a big difference in the legal department’s work.
• Handling the process of establishing new subsidiaries for the Bank.
• Coordinated with Risk Department to analyze the legal risk of products as well as the high profile cases that contain potential risk of financial and reputational losses.
• Constructed several Islamic Finance products that were launched into the market and successfully achieved business targets.
• Rebuilt the legal documentations of the Consuming Finance products and the Real Estates Finance products to meet the new laws and regulations.
• Engaged with the Bank’s departments, branches, subsidiaries and international branches to help them achieve their goals by giving them legal opinions on both operational or strategic matters.
• Litigated 34 cases of the amount 60M SAR before the respected courts and judicial committees of Saudi Arabia and won several cases that saved and earned over 25M SAR.
• Represented the Legal Department in various meetings with external parties.

Education

Master's degree, Intellectual Property Law
  • at University of New Hampshire School of Law
  • January 2015

LLM in Intellectual Property. Relevant courses include: International IP Law. Trademark, Contract, Litigation, Legal Research & Writing, and Dispute Resolution. Law. Professor John Orcutt, Research Assistant. Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic

Bachelor's degree, Islamic Law
  • at Umm Al-Qura University College of Islamic Law
  • May 2010

Specialties & Skills

Contracts
Legal Research
Intellectual Property
Corporate Law
Negotiation
CONTRACT NEGOTIATION
 EVALUATE LEGAL RISKS
CORPORATE LITIGATION 
 AGREEMENTS REVIEW
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
CASE MANAGEMENT 
 LEGAL RESEARCH NETWORK
 TECHNOLOGY LICENSING

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

NEW ENGLAND MUSLIM BAR ASSOCIATION
  • Lawyers
  • January 2014

Training and Certifications

INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2012
LEGAL ENGLISH PROGRAM (Training)
Training Institute:
TLC, Fisher College, Boston, USA
Date Attended:
October 2012
Duration:
720 hours