Fouad Massad
Kamal & Associates Saudi Arabia
Fouad Massad joined Kamal and Associates in 2017. He is a corporate lawyer with experience across Saudi Arabia and other regional markets, and his main areas of expertise are mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and e-commerce. Fouad has assisted businesses to navigate complex and uncertain regulatory environments, and helped them establish diverse projects including in renewable energy, fintech, ride-hailing, cyber security, and tele-medicine. Fouad's experience also encompasses public-private partnerships, where he assisted multiple companies in negotiating with government agencies and securing fair and balanced agreements. His experience includes:
- Structuring Sharia-compliant venture capital arrangements and alternative lease-to-own structures for various enterprises in Saudi Arabia.
- Advising a leading Asian corporation on its acquisition of a Saudi waste management business.
- Advising on the corporate structuring of a high-profile acquisition of a gaming company to operate in Saudi Arabia.
- Assisting a number of Chinese and Indian renewable energy companies in satisfying the regulatory requirements in the Saudi market.
- Advising leading ride-hailing and software solution companies on operating and providing services to Saudi government bodies.
- Advising various social media platforms and fintech companies in extending their services to Palestine on a cross-border basis.
- Advising a leading Palestinian energy company in exploring gas import and sale opportunities in the West Bank.
- Advising various companies on data protection regulations in Palestine, including in the IT and health sectors. Fouad has an LLB from Birzeit University in Palestine (2017), and an LLM in information technology and IP law from the University of Sussex, UK (2022).
Area(s) of Expertise
- Agriculture & Rural Affairs
- Antitrust & Competition
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Debt
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
- Charities
- Civil Liberties, Justice & Human Rights
- Civil justice reform - Civil litigation
- Commercial Property
- Company & Commercial
- Computer and IT
- Computer and IT law
- Construction and Civil Engineering
- Consumer Products
- Contract Law
- Corporate
- Corporate/Business Law
- Costs
- Courts, Tribunals & Judiciary
- Criminal
- Cyber Security
- Data Privacy & Information Security
- Disability
- Discrimination
- E-Discovery
- E-commerce
- EU law
- Education
- Employment
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Environmental
- Estates & Trusts
- Family
- Food and Drug
- Franchising
- Government Affairs, Public Finance and Procurement
- Health Care & Clinical Negligence
- Health and Safety
- Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
- Infrastructure
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
- International Trade & Investment
- Land Use Development and Regulatory Law
- Landlord and Tenant
- Legal Aid
- Litigation
- Maritime
- Media, Entertainment & Licensing
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Offshore
- Oil and Gas
- Partnership
- Personal Injury
- Planning
- Practice Management
- Product Liability & Toxic Tort
- Professional Negligence
- Professional Regulation
- Real Estate
- Regulatory
- Securities
- Sports
- Tax
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Trusts and Estates
- Welfare Benefits
- White Collar Crime
Languages Spoken
- Arabic
- English
- fmassad@kamallaw.com