Litigation & adr
In today’s rapidly changing regulatory environment, businesses, organizations and individuals need experienced counsel to anticipate changes and react quickly and effectively to new rules and rulings. From filing for immediate injunctive relief, to developing the framework for a full-scale defense or challenge in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia courts, KLA Firm provides a full range of legal services for handling a variety of litigation matters.
Our regional litigation and disputes lawyers advise many of the world’s largest corporations and financial institutions on complex, high-value, and sensitive multi-jurisdictional disputes. We have unique disputes legal practices in the region, with significant experience resolving domestic and cross-border mandates, international arbitrations, investigations, and enforcement for clients across all the key industry sectors, including: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; construction; real estate and healthcare; and consumer markets.
By giving clients innovative, pragmatic legal advice that is focused on their business and strategic goals, our attorneys are able to both prevent and settle conflicts. From negotiation, mediation, conciliation and conflict resolution; to aggressive courtroom strategies, multi-party and class action lawsuits, and appellate procedures, our experience encompasses the whole spectrum of dispute resolution and litigation mechanisms. Within the framework of legal conflicts, we have expertise providing risk and public relations advice.
We provide a distinctive service by advising businesses on conflict concerns in the growing Middle Eastern markets. This reflects our “on the ground” strength. Our team members are fluent in over four prevalent languages across the region.
As a key component of our disputes practice, our regional practice support team provides clients consistent and proven methodology for complying with document preservation and production requirements throughout the course of disputes, assisting in developing case strategies and priorities, while managing and reducing costs for clients.
Appellate & Supreme Court
KLA Firm has a long and successful track record of advocating for our clients’ most vital interests before Supreme Courts, and appellate courts. Our experienced appellate litigators have argued leading, precedent-setting cases in the areas of commercial law, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, securities, insurance, criminal law, and general law.
We have won major appellate victories, sustaining favorable judgments in cases with millions of dollars at stake, and obtained reversals of adverse rulings.
Experienced Litigators
Our litigators’ extensive experience in managing appeals, allows us to identify possible appellate issues early in litigation, and to present the case in a manner that ensures the greatest chance of success on appeal.
Securities Litigation
We draw on our extensive experience to help clients navigate and defeat shareholder derivative actions; a complex intersection of corporate governance and derivative liability. When shareholders seek to compel our clients to sue officers and directors or other parties, we routinely win dismissal on the pleadings, defeating shareholder standing before any discovery is made. When these cases do proceed past a motion to dismiss, we are well-equipped to defend them and prevail at trial. We have guided clients to successful resolution of derivative claims involving every type of alleged corporate wrongdoing from fraud, failure of oversight, and professional malpractice to ESG-related claims, cross-border issues, restatements, and violation of laws. Our team brings extensive insight and experience to counseling clients through the complexities of such delicate matters, winning or settling cases with minimal corporate disruption.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Our attorneys are highly skilled legal professionals who regularly represent clients in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) sessions. They have also served as mediators and arbitrators for several of the top ADR and arbitration organizations in the region. Additionally, they offer expertise providing advice and unadministered arbitrations and mediations in a range of significant worldwide commercial sectors.
As part of our approach, we collaborate strongly with our clients to identify the most effective dispute resolution process for their needs. Our clients have found that alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is a sensible option in an increasing variety of business disputes, including those involving intricate financial matters, due to its privacy, flexibility, and relative acceleration. We consult clients on the appropriate structuring of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clauses for both local and international transactions, and we remain flexible about how we may most effectively and cost-efficiently secure their goals.
Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
Our M&A corporate lawyers and litigators engage extensively on transactions, representing buyers, sellers, companies, executives, directors, and special committees. We make sure that every agreement is thoroughly evaluated, from both a business and legal perspective. In light of that, our clients generally avoid going to court, or if they do, typically possess the strongest defense record. Nearly each type of dispute pertaining to M&A transactions has been successfully litigated by our attorneys, including:
- class action fiduciary duty litigation;
- controlling stockholder M & A litigation;
- litigation resulting from large, complex going-private transactions; and post-closing deal disputes, such as those involving working capital and purchase price adjustments.
In addition, our attorneys have defended numerous securities fraud claims, as well as all aspects of class and derivative actions which often arise in the context of acquisitions.
Business & commercial litigation
Our experienced trial lawyers consistently deliver winning results for clients across many forums and jurisdictions, including Commercial and General Courts, multidistrict litigation, and arbitration tribunals.
Experienced Litigators
Our team is skilled at handling the full range of business & commercial litigation matters affecting businesses in every industry, including:
- Complex contract and commercial disputes
- Consumer class actions
- Fraud and deceptive trade practice claims
- Corporate governance and fiduciary duty disputes
- Deal-related disputes
- Real estate litigation
- Health care litigation
- Professional liability
- Business restructuring
Recognizing that every client’s business goals and objectives are unique, we carefully consider all available options when managing cases. Our proven ability to achieve favorable results in the courtroom provides us with the credibility to also resolve disputes short of trial. Whether utilizing pretrial motions and alternative dispute resolution to reduce litigation costs and exposure, our determined advocacy is key to our record of success.
Construction & Engineering
Real Estate
Our engineering and construction attorneys represent a variety of project investors, institutional investors, sponsors, developers, occupiers, contractors, subcontractors, financiers, consultants, and suppliers during all stages of the project’s life cycle.
From front-end procurement strategy advice to project structuring and development strategies, contract negotiation and preparation, project delivery advice, and post-contract guidance for operational legal risk management, claims, and disputes, our construction teams deliver an end-to-end service throughout the entire longevity of the project.
Our attorneys have extensive experience offering guidance on significant infrastructure, real estate, energy, and natural resource projects all over the region. They are proficient at assisting clients in meeting the specific demands of multi-jurisdictional transactions while maintaining their focus on larger business goals. Global business is a reality, and with it comes the need for an international workforce that is highly competent and mobile. Our clients come to us for prompt, cost-effective, and efficient legal assistance with their intricate legal problems pertaining to massive infrastructure projects. Wherever they may occur, we are equipped to manage engineering and construction-related issues.
The intricacy and sophistication of the local real estate market are rising. In the real estate industry, investors, corporations, asset and investment managers, and financial institutions require a legal team capable of providing strategic and broad transactional support. As one of the few regional law firms, we have the knowledge, expertise, and range of resources essential to provide the real estate sector’s participants with outstanding support anywhere in the region.
We represent clients in all aspects of real estate law, including portfolio transactions, equity investment structuring, direct and indirect investment transactions, real estate finance, dispute resolution, and development projects. We have extensive experience with Islamic financing methods for real estate investment, representing market leaders in this sector.