General Counsel and Board Secretary
Al Rajhi Holding Group
Total years of experience :9 years, 9 Months
- Developing and leading corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company's matters
- Developing and leading internal audit and corporate compliance programs
- Overseeing delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities
- Maintaining proper corporate interactions with the relevant governmental bodies.
- Advising the Chairman and Board members and other senior corporate officers on a variety of issues.
- Coordinate and facilitate the Board & Committees meetings, including confirming attendees, date and time, location, and managing travel logistics.
- Prepare and distribute the meeting agenda to the Board & Committees members.
- Attend, document, and distribute meeting minutes to the attendees and members after the meetings.
- Prepare and update the Board & Committees meeting calendar.
- Document and store all Board & Committees meeting minutes, capturing decisions and discussions, action plans, votes, etc., as applicable.
- Distribute prepared action plans coming out of the Board & Committees meetings to relevant parties and follow up on the implementation of action plans.
- Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions to ensure that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
- Assist in the preparation of timely and accurate reports and functional deliverables to meet the functional requirements in order to achieve the desired efficiency and performance excellence
- Ensure all rules and bylaws are adhered to by the Board & Committees during meetings and in the implementation of their decisions.
- Provide legal advice to the Board & Committees on regulatory issues as needed.
BOARD EXPERIENCE AND PARTERNSHIP
1. Chairman of Injaz Real Estate Development (cjsc) 2022 - present
2. Board Member of Dirham Capital (cjsc) 2021- present
CMA Licensed company with capital of 20 million SAR
In litigations,
I am a member of the team handling commercial cases such as, enforcing an award from London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) in the amount of 32 million USD for a telecommunication Company, and defending a company worth 2 billion SAR against a judgment liquidating its business.
In transactions,
- I was one of the team who prepared a due diligence report for a telecom company that is buying thousands of mobile towers from other companies in SA.
- I worked with the managing partner on an acquisition worth 100 million SAR. I was responsible for drafting the due diligence, MOU and the contract.
- I am responsible for establishing limited liability companies and drafting shareholder resolutions and other resolutions for companies.
Provide legal advice in high profile agreement in the ICT sector in addition to the general legal support to the team. I work closely with Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology
Responsible for providing legal advice on a wide range of carrier network agreements with STC, ZAIN & Mobily and other business agreements with partners.
Additionally, I manage the litigation part of the legal department. I succeeded to reach settlements with other companies and law firm to close cases.
Responsible for:
1. Commercial cases; drafting submissions, attending hearings in different courts (commercial, criminal and general).
2. Labor cases; internal investigation and managing labor cases (submission and hearings)
3. Reviewing constructions contracts and subcontracts.
4. Following up with external lawyers for cases outside Saudi.
5. Drafting letters, memos and submission to courts.
6. Responsible for reviewing the new internal sub-contracting procedures at ACC
I am responsible for providing support to the business units across the region. This include:
• Drafting and reviewing commercial agreements (for example, supply agreements), NDAs and similar contracts.
• Undertaking company secretarial work, including arranging for board and shareholder meetings, preparing agendas for such meetings and drafting minutes of meetings, resolutions and powers of attorney.
• Share transfers across the region (in conjunction with local counsel, as required).
• Document management skills to assist with the management of the document database across the organization.
• Legal research (for example, research into environmental legislation and labor law).
Working with Marsh & McLennan Companies, independent brokers and risk managers (an INTERMEDIARY) as a trainee broker to gain comprehensive knowledge of the insurance and broker industry. In addition to learn more about the law of Insurance and Brokers in Saudi Arabia.
LLM candidate at Wake Forest University. - Business Law. - Corporate governance. - Insurance law.
English as a second language courses
Shari’a Jurisprudence including business laws and finance laws