Albihery

Ahmed Bin Rashed Albihery

Lawyers & Legal Advisors

ABOUT US

Albihery Lawyers & Legal Advisors are an enterprising law firm with capabilities in providing a series of legal services in the diverse areas of law for the last 30 years.  At Albihery, we see our firm as an extension of your affairs, whether it is personal or business, we can act as more than legal counsel.

— we take on the role of trusted adviser.

OUR EXPERIENCE

For the last 30 years we built our team wide and solid covering most legal areas, whether it is governmental, commercial, or individual, our team will handle it. Throughout the years we have built a good relation, exchanged experience and cooperation with many international consultants such as Kennedy’s LLP, Bird & Bird LLP, Holland & Knight LLP, BAR & KARRER. In addition, firms such as PWC, Ernst & Young are part of our international strategic advisors, as well as Helios our international aviation consultant.

Locally, Our firm has extensive knowledge and experience in dealing many government and semi-government agencies and bodies such as, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) ,General Authority of Coemption (GAC), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and the Ministry of Justice.

Our highly experience team has been dealing with the Committee of Banking and Financial Disputes and violations on behalf of one of the Kingdom’s mega financing companies which involves more than 26 international banks valued at over 12 billion USD, as well as, representing other mega financial institutes.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

CORPORATE

We are specialized in supporting business entities to enter, operate and expand in the Saudi market. Our team are expert in drafting policies and procedures that are aligned with Saudi regulations.

CORPORATE AREAS WE
FOCUS ON COMPRISE OF :

We offer such services to foreign, regional, and international firms, which are planning to invest into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia providing legal services to enter the country and doing business in the safest way complying with all the laws, rules and regulation. In addition, we help in establishing companies such as new Tec companies and logistics companies by getting all the required licenses from the concerned government departments.
Our team has the knowledge to establish the new cloud-kitchen companies and following the official procedures to register their trademark and protect it from being used by the others.

We also have specific teams dedicated to Intellectual Property. Our team will help your business growth by protecting and leveraging your brand, ideas, inventions, and innovations. Also, the protection of the data sharing and data protection.

Our team provide clients with comprehensive transactional and operational guidance in areas of expansion through mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. Transactional work can put a client under immense pressure. However, we take on the burden and pressure of that process assuring our client a stressless, safe and smooth process.

Our firm has a great experience in dealing with the General Authority of Competition. We make sure our clients avoid the breach of any of the GAC rules and regulations and reach the full protection to avoid any damage from the get-go, and if any, it will be the least. Our team is expert in dealing with the General Authority for Competition GAC and have pleaded Infront of the Committee for Resolution of Competition Violations in different cases and challenged the Committee’s decisions to the competent administrative court. In addition, our team examine the companies’ acquisition requests by examining and submitting the requests to the General Authority for Competition to obtain the necessary approvals for the success of that acquisition.

Our firm includes a department that is specialized in dealing with Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) regarding approving the applications, method of obtaining the licenses related to regularization of the communication services via the platform and obtaining the same in accordance with the requirements to determine the expected objectives, along with complying with the controls and the guidelines that are required to be fulfilled in order to practice these activities taking into account avoiding committing any violation and taking into consideration the connection with other government department such as Ministry of Transportation and Logistic services.

Our firm has the experience in dealing with the General Commission for Audiovisual Media (GCAM) for obtaining licenses, starting form preparing all required documents, applying, and following the procedure to fulfil their conditions until granting the required license either permanent or temporary one.

We can help our clients to be approved for existing whose proposed solution involves a different technology or an existing technology being applied differently which are currently not covered under existing SAMA’s regulations and require an amendment to the existing regulations or new FinTech Solutions depending on their digital business model that is not currently covered whether explicitly or implicitly under SAMA regulations and requires issuance of new regulations and licenses for those solutions.
Our team can help with the requirements and the direction to follow the steps taking in the consideration the time frame until getting the approval.

Participation in many tenders related to the transformation of government entities to companies, including Transformation of Air Navigation Services teaming with Ernst & Young, and the Proposal for Consultancy Services for Saudi Civil Aviation Holding Company and Corporatization of King Khaled International Airport in cooperation with PWC Office.

Since the establishment of our firm, the office has contributed to the community by providing legal training to fresh law graduates of both genders until they have obtained a law license. We Make sure that they get the expertise and knowledge from our senior attorneys and get them involve in cases from different law areas, so that they distinguished themselves by the ingenuity and training they had at our office. We are proud to announce that over the past 21 years, our firm has trained and helped more than 32 fresh law graduates obtain their law licenses.

We understand the importance of choosing the right law firm to handle litigation, or issues that could result in litigation as disputes can be stressful, time consuming and damaging to any business. Our litigation lawyers have extensive experience in handling such cases and can draw on broad subject matter knowledge throughout the firm as necessary to support the client position. Our clients range from Governmental entities, public and private limited companies, to SMEs and individuals.

Disputes we handle include:

  • Banking litigation and financial services disputes
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Corporate and Merger & Acquisitions Disputes
  • Employment Disputes
  • Real Estate Disputes
  • Heritage and Family Disputes
  • Maritime Disputes
  • Medical Malpractices
  • Insurance Irregularities and Disputes Settlement
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration

The Grievance Board has jurisdiction for the enforcement of foreign judgments in KSA. specifies the requirements that must be satisfied for enforcement of a foreign judgment in Saudi Arabia.

DISPUTES WE HANDLE INCLUDE:

ENFORCEABILITY OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS
IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

The Grievance Board has jurisdiction over the enforcement of foreign judgments in KSA and specifies the requirements that must be satisfied for enforcement of a foreignjudgment in Saudi Arabia.

OUR TEAM

AHMED R. AL BIHERY

Founder and attorney at Law

AYMAN A. NOMANI

Partner

KAMAL Y. ABDULAZIZ

Legal Advisor

MOHAMMED F. AL GHRIR

Senior Associate

WALEED A. AL SHAMRARNI

Senior Associate

MOHAMMED O. MERAIANI

Senior Associate

NAELA H. ANSARI

Consultant

MAHMOUD O. ABDULHAQ

Senior Admin

OUR CLIENTS

CONTACT US

Location

3rd Floor, Al-manara Building,
Tahlia Street, Jeddah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mailing Address

P.O.Box 48303, Jeddah 21572,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia