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Key contacts
Partner: Michel Ghanem
Quick facts
# Partners

1

# Other qualified practitioners

2

Languages

Arabic, English, French

Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
Corporate and M&A
M&A
Financial and corporate
Firm overview

Meysan's Riyadh office advises domestic, regional, and international clients on a broad range of corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, restructurings, joint ventures, and strategic investments across Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf region.

Working as part of an integrated regional platform, our team regularly handles complex cross-border transactions involving multinational corporations, financial institutions, family offices, investment funds, and leading regional businesses. We are frequently instructed on matters requiring sophisticated structuring, multi jurisdictional coordination, regulatory approvals, and stakeholder management across a variety of sectors.

Our Riyadh team is led by experienced corporate lawyers who work closely with colleagues across Meysan's regional offices, allowing us to deliver seamless support on matters spanning multiple jurisdictions. This integrated approach enables us to provide commercially focused, practical advice while maintaining the highest standards of legal execution.

Key practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • Competition
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Hedge funds
  • Investment funds
  • Islamic finance
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation 
Sector expertise
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Transport
Address:
Akaria 3, Al Olaya Street
5th Floor, Office 514
Riyadh
P.O. Box 12213
Tel:+966599569444 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.meysan.com/riyadh/

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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate
Meysan is a regional law firm with a corporate and M&A practice in Saudi Arabia advising domestic and international clients on acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings and joint ventures. The team has experience in cross-border transactions and advises across diverse sectors. The firm formed a strategic alliance with Hammad & Al-Mehdar Lawyers and Legal Consultants in 2025, strengthening its Saudi law capabilities. The Riyadh corporate practice is headed by counsel Neyla Rahal, who works closely with Michel Ghanem on complex domestic and cross-border transactions.


Key clients 
Alamar Foods Company, Gulf Insurance Group, Mizuho Gulf Capital Partners, Sanam Real Estate and UPayments.
 
Highlights   
The firm advised AlFursan AlMaghaweer Holding on its $107 million sale to Investindustrial's food platform, Windoria.

The firm advised Mizuho Gulf Capital Partners on the SAR200 million sale of its indirect majority stake in Karam Beirut Restaurants. 

The firm advised Al Murakiz Al Mittura SPC on its SAR700 million acquisition of an approximately 865,000 sq m land plot in Sulay. The team also advised on transaction structuring, documentation, conditions precedent and completion.
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