Ziad El-Khoury has a wide range of experience in corporate, financial, regulatory and civil law matters with particular emphasis on telecommunications, banking and finance, corporate, business and commercial law. Ziad has also handled matters involving bankruptcy, real estate, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

He has represented major corporations and business interests in Lebanon and the Middle East covering a wide range of activities in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia (KSA), the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Syria and on behalf of numerous clients in Europe, America and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Squire Sanders, Ziad practiced in two of the leading Lebanese firms in Beirut for seven years before joining a law firm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2003, where he served as manager of international operations. In 2005, he founded his own firm.

Ziad was appointed by Decree Law of the Lebanese Council of Ministers as a board member of the National Archives Center, a public service supervised by the Lebanese Prime Ministry, where he provides legal and administrative advice.

Ziad is a member of the Beirut Bar Association.

Principais Projetos

• Representing the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) in the registration and capitalization of Al-Uqair Development Company, a joint stock company to own and operate the first mixed tourism destination in Saudi Arabia. Work involves the execution of a SR2.3 billion private placement and the preparation for an IPO.
• Advising Tatweer Education Holding Company, a government-owned joint stock company, on the implementation of the King Abdullah Project for the Development of Public Education.
• Advising the Saudi Ministry of Labor (MOL) in regulatory efforts aimed at drafting/amending new regulations for the establishment and operation of recruitment/outsourcing companies.
• Participating on the legal team carrying out regulatory reform work for the Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs (MOMRA) charged with issuing a new regulation creating 178 new municipal councils and establishing the electoral system for holding the first public elections within the KSA.
• Serving as lead counsel on a major financial institution restructuring project involving the merger of operations from eight money exchange entities into a new bank in Saudi Arabia and conducting a public offering of 50 percent of the authorized capital.
• Representing the Kingdom of Bahrain's regulatory board, the Economic Development Board (EDB) and Court of the Crown Prince in an effort to reform and modernize Bahrain’s labor law (primary and secondary legislation in process).
• Leading a private placement initiative in a major healthcare company with operations around the Middle East in preparation for an anticipated IPO within Saudi Arabia.
• Assisting in the creation of a public joint-stock company with capitalization of SR1 billion (US$270 million) to carry out real estate investment activities, as well as an anticipated IPO for 25 percent of its initial capital.
• Assisting in creating a cooperative insurance company according to a newly enacted insurance law in the KSA.
• Assisting a Saudi Arabia-based bank in helping to restructure a group of construction companies and close a private placement in preparation of a public offering.
• Assisting in a US$2 billion real estate development project including advising on financing methods, corporate structuring, shareholders' and investors' agreements, governance issues, private placement, contractors' agreements and RPT agreements.
• Representing a major construction company in restructuring one of its divisions in anticipation of a US$213 million private offering and subsequent IPO.
• Representing a holding company that owned and managed 68 restaurants, hotels and resorts.
• Leading a team of lawyers representing an international bank in the acquisition of a family-owned Lebanon-based bank.