Addleshaw Goddard’s appoints two new Middle East partners

Addleshaw Goddard has announced the promotion to partnership of senior lawyers Philip Chalmers  (pictured left) and Jasem Alanizy (pictured right), respectively in the UAE and KSA.

Since January, the firm has hired three additional partners across the UAE and Riyadh offices: namely Paul Prescott (construction), Lucas Pitts (commercial disputes), and Jad Slim (corporate).

Philip Chalmers

A former managing associate in Addleshaw Goddard’s UAE location, Philip Chalmers, will serve the firm as partner within the finance and restructuring practice. Since relocating from Addleshaw Goddard’s  Edimburgh office, Chalmers took part to a wide range of financings, restructurings and real estate projects across the UAE and wider region, including . His expertise spans both conventional and Islamic finance, with a particular focus on multi-creditor debt restructurings, acquisition finance, funds finance and complex real estate financing. He advises a clientele of financial institutions, private credit funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices on acquisitions and investment deals within the region, but also across Europe and the UK.

Jasem Alanizy

Previously a managing associate and now a partner in the firm Saudi Arabian corporate finance team, Jasem Alanizy advises a public of major corporates, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity firms on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital investments across the region. Amongst his most notable and recent deals, the acquisition of Kudu Food Company and the acquisition by Bindawood Holding Company of Zahrat Al Rawdah Pharmacies in Saudi Arabia from Julphar.