Lina Samaha

Biography

Since joining Al Tamimi & Company in 2017, Lina has cultivated a comprehensive understanding of the KSA legal landscape through practicing in different areas of law, including Litigation, Arbitration, Corporate Structuring, Corporate Commercial, Regulatory and Government Projects.

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Recent Experience

Dispute Resolution:

• Successfully advised and represented a major KSA contracting company in a SAR 130M arbitration dispute, as well as other arbitration claims in the construction industry.
• Successfully advised and represented a sport ticketing and merchandise supplier in arbitration disputes against KSA football clubs, as well as other arbitration claims in the football sector.
• Advising a prominent KSA merchant family valued at a net worth of SAR 2 billion on matters relating to shareholders’ disputes, family disputes, a cross-jurisdictional meditation settlement, and group restructuring.
• Advising contracting companies in relation to investigations by regulatory authorities, addressing potential violations of different KSA laws and providing personnel training for the investigations.
• Successfully advised and represented aircraft owners in claims against the lessee’s corporate guarantor, concluding in a favourable settlement arrangement for our clients.
• Advising and representing one of the biggest watchmakers in shareholders’ disputes, resulting in liquidating their JV with a KSA shareholder.
• Advising and representing a shareholder and board member of a leading KSA manpower company in a dispute, resulting in existing the company and a favourable settlement for our client.
• Advising multiple Japanese general trading companies and steelmakers regarding their potential disputes with KSA commercial agents.
• Advising one of the biggest CPGs globally in relation to criminal liabilities of their executives.

Regulatory and Government Projects:

• Leading Al Tamimi & Company team in a key governmental project concerning the establishment of a Special Zones Centre.
• Handling and managing the legal workstream for a key KSA Royal Commission’s project.
• Advising a major real estate development company regarding their application to establish a Special Zone in KSA by assisting in creating the legal framework and drafting the relevant agreements, laws and regulations.
• Advising and participating in preparing financial support governance, mechanisms, and regulations for a KSA ministry.

Corporate Commercial & Relevant:

• Advising a major KSA entertainment company regarding engagements with suppliers and talents in the entertainment sector.
• Advising a PIF-owned company regarding lease arrangements with tenants and relevant correspondences involving different KSA authorities.
• Advising one of the biggest universities in KSA on commercial, real estate and employment arrangements, involving various KSA authority bodies.
• Advising a large hospital operator in a deal involving operating a local hospital and negotiating the terms therein.
• Advising multiple prominent merchant families in KSA on different corporate mandates, including corporate restructuring for business continuity and optimal cash flow, and guidance on establishing and managing charitable organisations.
• Working on legal due diligence reports in M&A transactions, covering compliance, corporate, commercial, employment, real estate and dispute resolution sections.
• Advising a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate regarding establishing their KSA company and restructuring their KSA business.