Fahad AlDehais AlMalki

Managing Partner, Saudi Arabia, AlDhabaan & Partners (in association with Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP)

Fahad AlDehais AlMalki is the Managing Partner of the Saudi Arabia practice at AlDhabaan & Partners (in association with Eversheds Sutherland), he joined the team in August 2015. Fahad is a senior Saudi lawyer licensed by the Saudi Ministry of Justice to provide legal advisory, practice law, train lawyers and as an arbitrator and a notary in Saudi Arabia. He is highly experienced in capital market transactions (listing, rights offerings and funds), mergers and acquisitions, corporate, and commercial transactions. Fahad also advises on sophisticated foreign investments. He is also a practicing litigator and has appeared and continues to appear before and attend arbitrations, specialised legal committees (SAMA, CMA and Customs), the Board of Grievances, the Commercial Courts, the Sharia Courts, and the Enforcement Courts with cases worth in excess of SAR33 billion so far.

Fahad currently focuses mainly on capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, and on regulatory and public policy advisory. He is acting on private equity transaction, M&A and IPOs, and to several IPO readiness and filings. He has been chosen to join the Capital Market’ Authority Board’s Advisory Committee in 2019 and voted as chair in 2020. Fahad has also advised and continues to advise several investment banks, private equity firms and family offices along with several ministries, authorities and government institutions on the National Transformation Plan 2020 and implementation of the Saudi Vision 2030. In June 2020, he was appointed to the Saudi Bar Association advisory committee for the project of redrafting the Code of Law Practice in Saudi Arabia.

Prior to joining AlDhabaan & Partners (in association with Eversheds Sutherland), Fahad was a senior associate with Vinson & Elkins LLP and had started his career with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency in 2003.

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Challenging tribunal jurisdiction and anti-suit provisions in Saudi Arabia

Practice notes

The Practice Note considers challenging the substantive jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal (or arbitrator(s)) under the law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA, Saudi or Saudi Arabia). It also considers, briefly, how to challenge the jurisdiction of the Saudi courts in respect of claims subject to an arbitration agreement. The Practice Note also considers the availability of anti-suit interim relief in support of arbitration under Saudi law.

Arbitration