Job description

The Senior Associate Corporate M&A role at AS&H Clifford Chance is based in Riyadh and involves applying significant regional, European, and international legal experience across a wide spectrum of corporate, regulatory, and commercial activities, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and equity capital markets transactions. The role encompasses advising on both public and private M&A and ECM matters across the Middle East, delivering high-level strategic legal advice on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management, and working on landmark and first-of-their-kind transactions in Saudi Arabia and internationally. The team has advised on major initial public offerings, including concurrent dual IPOs and listings on UAE and KSA stock exchanges, large-scale listings on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul), mergers executed via share exchange transactions, sales of treasury shares through rights issue mechanisms, secondary public offerings, record-breaking regional M&A disposals, statutory banking mergers, Shari'a compliant subordinated financial equity-like instruments, and Rule 144A IPOs. AS&H Clifford Chance operates as a market-leading law firm in Saudi Arabia, combining global legal standards with deep local expertise across capital markets, corporate and M&A, finance and banking, real estate, and dispute resolution, and regularly advises Saudi Ministries, government-owned entities, listed companies, and financial institutions on innovative and ground-breaking transactions within a fast-growing legal and economic environment.