K&A advised Samba Financial Group on the signing of its merger agreement with National Commercial Bank. The merger aims to create a regional powerhouse with SAR 837 billion (U.S.$ 223 billion) in assets, uniquely positioned to accelerate the transformation of Saudi Arabia’s banking landscape and deliver progress towards Vision 2030.
This landmark transaction cements K&A’s role as the leading KSA firm for complex M&A transactions. K&A has worked on every premier public or private M&A deal, on sell and buy-side, whether on a competitive or bilateral basis. From the Sipchem/Sahara share swap, to the SABB/AlAwwal merger, to the Saudi Aramco/SABIC acquisition, K&A has been at the forefront of complex M&A work in KSA.
Our role for Samba utilized all of our tier 1 practice areas, including M&A, capital markets, corporate, competition, finance, and dispute resolution.
This transaction comes at the same time as K&A dominated the IFLR award nominations as announced here.
Managing Partner, Zeyad Khoshaim, commented, “I am very proud of our team for having structured, negotiated, and documented this complex deal in an efficient manner and expedited timeline. It validates our strategy of having on-the-ground execution capabilities to execute deals of this complexity”.
Many thanks goes out to Counsel Amro Bakhaidar, associates Mohammad Almania, Ghaida Meaigel, and trainee associate Yazeed Alsayari for their lead role on the transaction, and to Partners Karim Wali and Leen Zaza for their assistance.
