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

  1. Agriculture & Rural Affairs
  2. Antitrust & Competition
  3. Arbitration & Mediation
  4. Artificial Intelligence
  5. Aviation & Aerospace
  6. Banking & Finance
  7. Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Debt
  8. Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
  9. Charities
  10. Civil Liberties, Justice & Human Rights
  11. Civil justice reform - Civil litigation
  12. Commercial Property
  13. Company & Commercial
  14. Computer and IT
  15. Computer and IT law
  16. Construction and Civil Engineering
  17. Consumer Products
  18. Contract Law
  19. Corporate
  20. Corporate/Business Law
  21. Costs
  22. Courts, Tribunals & Judiciary
  23. Criminal
  24. Cyber Security
  25. Data Privacy & Information Security
  26. Disability
  27. Discrimination
  28. E-Discovery
  29. E-commerce
  30. EU law
  31. Education
  32. Employment
  33. Energy & Natural Resources
  34. Environmental
  35. Estates & Trusts
  36. Family
  37. Food and Drug
  38. Franchising
  39. Government Affairs, Public Finance and Procurement
  40. Health Care & Clinical Negligence
  41. Health and Safety
  42. Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
  43. Infrastructure
  44. Insolvency and Bankruptcy
  45. Insurance
  46. Intellectual Property
  47. International Law
  48. International Trade & Investment
  49. Land Use Development and Regulatory Law
  50. Landlord and Tenant
  51. Legal Aid
  52. Litigation
  53. Maritime
  54. Media, Entertainment & Licensing
  55. Mergers and Acquisitions
  56. Offshore
  57. Oil and Gas
  58. Partnership
  59. Personal Injury
  60. Planning
  61. Practice Management
  62. Product Liability & Toxic Tort
  63. Professional Negligence
  64. Professional Regulation
  65. Real Estate
  66. Regulatory
  67. Securities
  68. Sports
  69. Tax
  70. Technology
  71. Telecommunications
  72. Trusts and Estates
  73. Welfare Benefits
  74. White Collar Crime

Languages Spoken

  1. Arabic
  2. English

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