Addleshaw Goddard announces new key hire for Riyadh
Addleshaw Goddard has announced another key partner hire for its upcoming office in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is currently pending regulatory approvals. Amar Meher will join the firm to lead its banking, finance and restructuring practices in Saudi Arabia, completing the five-strong partner group launching the office.
Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, Meher worked for several leading international law firms, including Latham & Watkins LLP in its Riyadh office, Allen & Overy LLP in both its London and Dubai offices and Vinson & Elkins LLP in its Dubai office.
Meher has a broad practice which principally focuses on debt restructurings, conventional and Islamic finance across all financing areas and asset classes and Shari’ah-compliant structured products, such as derivatives and investment funds. He has been involved in some of the most complex and significant restructurings in the Kingdom, and acted on numerous milestone conventional and Islamic facilities for various high profile publicly listed and non-publicly listed clients.
Meher has a reputation amongst clients as the go-to lawyer for debt restructurings and structured financings in Saudi Arabia and is regularly ranked as a leading finance lawyer in Saudi Arabia by prominent publications such as Chambers, Legal500, Euromoney and Islamic Finance News.
Amar Meher, partner, Addleshaw Goddard, said, “I am delighted to join Addleshaw Goddard as a partner in its Riyadh office. Addleshaw Goddard is a leading international law firm which has established itself as a pre-eminent law firm in the region over the past 10 years. Together with our outstanding team both internationally and regionally, I look forward to the opportunity to establish a leading law firm in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia particularly at a pivotal time when both the firm and the country are at the forefront of international attention for their respective enviable international growth and unprecedented transformation under Vision 2030.”
