King & Spalding

King & Spalding’s banking and financing team has been praised for its ‘innovative capabilities’ in financing restructuring and cross-border transactions, particularly in the manufacturing, construction and energy sectors. The team showcases extensive expertise in both conventional and Shari’ah-compliant financing transactions, earning major Saudi and international banks as clients, as well as key players in the private credit market.. The practice is headed by Zaid Al-Farisi, whose extensive experience and ’cultural fluency’ make him a go-to adviser for lenders, borrowers, sponsors, debtors and creditors. Dubai-based Michael Rainy is another key asset, bringing nearly 20 years of experience covering conventional and Shari’ah-complaint equity, loan and bond financings to deliver transactions successfully.