Press Release 12.16.24
Pillsbury Announces Intent to Open in Riyadh
With License Request Filed to the Saudi Ministry of Justice, Pillsbury Plans to Partner with Alum Khalid AlArfaj and AlArfaj & Partners to Establish Presence in the Kingdom
Qualified in the UK and having previously worked in the Middle East, Nadia Barazi provides commercial and corporate legal advice to international businesses—and especially those operating in the MENA region—across a wide range of sectors.
As the firmwide Middle East practice leader, Nadia advises clients across the EMEA region on a wide array of matters, helping achieve their objectives both locally and internationally.
Drawing on the firm’s diverse practice areas across our platform, Nadia’s representations cover a broad range of legal and business issues. However, she is particularly well-known for her work on sports, media and entertainment matters. Nadia regularly advises clients on sponsorship deals, representing both sponsors and the recipients of sponsorships, and on all aspects of media production, content acquisition, rights issues and distribution across all media platforms, including on distribution and production/co-production deals for film and television projects.
Representative Experience
- Represented a major rights holder in connection with the engagement of celebrity influencers and other celebrity participants for the purposes of promoting and advertising a major Middle Eastern sporting event via various media platforms.
- Advising a global beauty company on all aspects of its Middle Eastern operations and corporate structure, including undertaking a review of corporate governance structures across all regional entities, assisting with the consolidation of its distribution network across the GCC region, reviewing, negotiating, and/or terminating distribution agreements, and reviewing, drafting and negotiating a range of other key commercial agreements with third-party suppliers and service providers.
- Localizing template commercial agreements for an international arena management company operating in the Middle East, including the preparation of a template sponsorship agreement for use in a multi-tier sponsorship deal.
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- Represented a major GCC rights holder in a production and distribution deal for a wildlife documentary.
- Represented a major GCC rights holder in connection with the production and distribution of a sports-related TV series.
- Represented a high-profile contributor providing commentary and interviews in connection with a Netflix documentary.
- Represented a major GCC rights holder in a deal with a production company to produce a historical TV series.
- Advising on and assisting with the implementation of various global brand ambassador agreements.
- Represented a major rights holder in connection with a significant book publishing production deal.
- Advising a U.S. food and beverage multinational corporation on its relationship with its local advertising agent and on the renewal of its regional Advertising Agency Agreement for the GCC.
Education
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Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, London, 2007
LL.B., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2006
Second Class Honours
Admissions
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England and Wales
Languages
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French