Associate – International Law Firm

Bespoke Professionals

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ref: MP910-06

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

This is an international law firm with an excellent regional reputation for corporate, banking, construction, maritime and disputes law.

They have a rapidly expanding office in Riyadh and are always on the lookout for strong young Saudi lawyers to focus on either litigation or corporate transactions.

Working alongside the local team in Riyadh, the role will also feature a lot of interaction with the large team of of lawyers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, and will guarantee the successful applicant a lot of high quality legal exposure.

The firm across the region handles a large number of multi-billion dollar transactions and international arbitrations; this would be a great opportunity for a young Saudi lawyer to gain such exposure.

Requirements

The successful applicant will have:

- Saudi nationality
- Excellent English language skills (written & spoken)
- a UK or US LLM or JD degree
- at least 1 years experience advising on commercial transactions or disputes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- The ambition to work alongside many international lawyers on large and important matters such as cross border M&A transactions or multi million dollar arbitrations.

About the Company

Bespoke Professionals was established in the Kingdom of Bahrain in early 2012 and now has offices in Bahrain and Dubai. We are a specialist legal executive search firm who have placed lawyers and support staff in the leading law firms and multinational companies in the GCC and wider Middle East region.

We pride ourselves on delivering a value-added introduction service that achieves the goals of both client and candidate, and so take great care to absorb every last detail when learning about our clients and candidates, so as to ensure a mutually beneficial match.

The majority of our focus is in the Legal sector, working very closely with UK, US and local law firms in the Middle East and in the Asia Pacific region, on a contingent and retained basis. We also exclusively recruit and headhunt for a number of banks, telecoms, and energy firms on legal and compliance mandates.

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