Experienced M&A Partner To Join Latham & Watkins in the Middle East
Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Ahmed T. el-Gaili will join the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. el-Gaili will be based in Latham’s cooperating law firm in Riyadh, the Law Office of Salman M. Al-Sudairi. His practice focuses on representing companies, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, and other investors on a variety of complex public and private mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, divestments, and reorganizations across the Middle East. He has extensive knowledge of the region, and has worked in the Middle East for more than a decade.
"Ahmed is a highly-skilled practitioner, with impressive credentials and a demonstrated history of success in the region. He brings substantial experience across a wide range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions,” said Salman Al-Sudairi, Managing Partner of The Law Office of Salman M. Al-Sudairi. “Ahmed’s expertise and connections strongly complement our capabilities, and he will be a fantastic addition to our market-leading practice in Saudi Arabia. Ahmed’s reputation in strategic M&A transactions is among the best in the country and his arrival will significantly enhance our service offering for our clients."
A recognized leader in his field, el-Gaili also represents governments and other stakeholders on large-scale energy projects and energy legislation, with a particular focus on oil and gas transactions, and he regularly counsels companies and investors on complex transactions in the telecoms and financial services industries.
"The Saudi market represents a significant source of outbound global investment, particularly in dynamic, fast growing areas like energy, infrastructure, technology, and financial services,” said Charles Ruck, Global Chair of Latham & Watkins' Corporate Department. “Our cooperating law firm in Saudi Arabia has an impressive track record advising on high profile domestic and cross-border transactions, and adding Ahmed to the team is an important milestone for the continued growth and success of the practice. His arrival further strengthens the team in the region and will help us to achieve our strategic goal of building the preeminent public M&A practice across the globe."
el-Gaili joins Latham & Watkins from Vinson & Elkins. He received a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1998 and a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2003.
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Latham & Watkins operates worldwide as a limited liability partnership organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (USA) with affiliated limited liability partnerships conducting the practice in France, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, and the United Kingdom and as an affiliated partnership conducting the practice in Japan. Latham & Watkins operates in South Korea as a Foreign Legal Consultant Office. Latham & Watkins works in cooperation with the Law Firm of Salman M. Al-Sudairi, a limited liability company, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.