Abdullah Medallah

Our boutique law firm is led by Mr. Abdullah Medallah who has been advising clients on the areas of construction, projects, and private equity in many jurisdictions around the world. He started his career in 2005 as a Construction Engineer with the Royal Commission/Bechtel. He led major infrastructure projects in Jubail-2, the largest engineering project in the area at that time. 

In 2009, he began his law studies in Glasgow and London, where after qualifying he worked as an in-house counsel for a number of companies in venture capital & private equity, construction, and oil & gas. His diversified international expertise and knowledge within business houses placed him and his team to be able to understand the soft politics to manage legal issues in board meetings, design dynamic structures, solves businesses and legal issues simultaneously, and be able to control disputes before they arise. 

We as a firm have experienced trial and litigation team representing clients in all Saudi court levels. We are one of the very few Saudi local law firms, who can structure international onshore and offshore funds and assist in startups and growth of SMEs.

Abdullah is a Doctoral Researcher in London and an active member of many professional societies. He is regularly speaking in conferences and academic venues around the world. His outreach to deliver knowledge and contribute to complex areas of the law in many fields came out to benefit his clients. He has been cited as ''a reference of construction law in Saudi Arabia''. 

He was also recognized in representing clients before the Saudi Supreme Court or all Court of Appeals, he was able to overturn multi-million dollar judgments by presenting record analysis supporting legal arguments and complex jurisprudential issues before 3-5 judges tribunals, and eventually win for his clients.

Abdullah is active on social media channels in an attempt to be able to connect regularly with the new generation of lawyers and advise them regularly how to choose a specialty in law, build advocacy skills, and professionalism in law. 

We as a firm also provide continuous training in law. We are focusing now on training startups, and young lawyers, we will be announcing all our training courses in our twitter account below. 

We as a firm developed a model to represent technology ventures and life science startups in the GCC region. We represent startups and growth companies in all their financing ventures. We advise them in all areas of their development stage: inception and idea generation, investment and financing, incorporation and internal structuring, and cross-border expansions. Abdullah has wide expertise in this area where has worked with international companies looking to expand in the GCC, or otherwise. He has advised clients in Silicon Valley, London, EU and Asia. 

If you are startup, we can assist you deal with incubators, financiers, and seed investors. We work closely with VC and PE firms to advise them in targets located in the GCC. We have advised clients who were looking for onshore and offshore incorporation and financing. We have also assisted clients in listing on AIMs or other SMEs parallel platforms as NOMU in Saudi Arabia. 

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