Raya is a Corporate partner at Bird & Bird and she will be heading the Corporate practice in our Riyadh office.
Her experience includes advising international and local clients on various corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, general corporate advice, formation of companies, initial public offering transactions, rights issue and real estate investment funds.
Before joining Bird & Bird, Raya worked as General Counsel, Governance Officer and Board Secretary at American Express Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. These three roles included advising on day-to-day legal affairs, such as general corporate matters, debt collection, employment legal issues, finance and payment services, co-brand agreements, on-boarding Amex cards as a form of payment on multinational and local websites, and advising on partnerships with local banks. She was also in charge of supervising, ensuring and enforcing compliance with the corporate governance regulations. She was the legal advisor to the Board and the relevant stakeholder in addition to being the Board secretary and attending to Board matters in that regard.
Prior to that, Raya was an associate in the corporate department in the Riyadh office of an international law firm for several years.
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Updated at: 2/11/2023