Dr. Musaed Saud AlRashidi
Legal leadership with a strategic vision and legal and executive experience that combines governance, institutional transformation, and risk management to make better and more sustainable decisions.
An Enduring Professional Journey
Cross-Sector Legal Expertise
Cross-sector legal expertise spanning more than 25 years, built through experience across the government, private, academic, and diplomatic sectors. This journey has contributed to leading legal and strategic initiatives, as well as institutional transformation projects. It is supported by advanced academic qualifications, including a PhD, master’s degrees, and international executive programs in law, management, leadership, and strategy, in addition to specialized professional certifications in project management, change management, governance, and risk management. It is further reinforced by memberships in leading international professional organizations and by specialized books and peer-reviewed research that contribute to advancing legal knowledge and strengthening professional practice.
Publications
Documented Legal Knowledge Through Publications
Description of the Saudi Commercial Law
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شرح النظام التجاري السعودي
Description of the Saudi Commercial Law
1. For whom is this book?
• Legal practitioners
• Executive leaders in companies
Preventive Settlement in the Saudi Bankruptcy Law
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Preventive Settlement in the Saudi Bankruptcy Law
1. For whom is this book?
• Executive leaders and board members
• Business owners and entrepreneurs
The Legal Environment for Business
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The Legal Environment for Business
1. For whom is this book?
• Executive leaders and board members
• Businessmen and investors
Specialization
Professional practice is based on an integrated system of legal and strategic specialties that combine law, governance, risk management, and strategy to support government agencies, the private sector, and investors in building solid institutional decisions, enhancing compliance, protecting interests, and achieving institutional sustainability.
Corporate Governance and Regulation
This specialization involves designing and developing governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks, as well as organizing the work of boards of directors and committees, in a way that enhances management efficiency, establishes sound decision-making, and supports compliance with regulatory requirements and best corporate practices.
Contracting and commercial relations
This specialization focuses on preparing, drafting, and organizing contractual relationships in a manner that preserves rights, achieves a balance of interests, limits legal risks, and supports the establishment of commercial and investment partnerships both locally and internationally.
Dispute management and decision protection
This practice area addresses commercial and strategic disputes through arbitration, mediation, and litigation, as well as insolvency and reorganization, in a manner that protects institutional interests, limits systemic effects, and enhances access to effective legal solutions.
Innovation and intangible assets
This specialization is concerned with protecting intellectual assets and organizing their management, and supporting institutional and technical transformation through legal frameworks that promote innovation, protect rights, and manage risks associated with intangible assets.
Financial and investment decisions
This area of expertise supports the development of financial and investment decisions based on legal and institutional foundations that enhance compliance, mitigate risks, and align with the requirements of growth and sustainability across various stages of investment and financing.
Contributions and impact
Research
Research topics in law and economics
This page contains a collection of peer-reviewed scientific research papers that address specialized legal and regulatory topics, adopting an analytical approach that links statutory texts with their practical applications, thereby contributing to the development of legal knowledge, enhancing institutional practices, and supporting decision-making.
Submitting a Preventive Settlement Proposal and Court Approval
This research addresses the framework on which legal systems rely to address cases of financial distress or default before reaching the stage of bankruptcy, through the preventive settlement system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It highlights that the purpose of this mechanism is not limited to
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Cases of Preventive Settlement and Legal Qualification
Submitting a Preventive Settlement Proposal and Court Approval (Comparison between the Saudi System and Egyptian Law – Analytical Study)
A study published in the Journal of the Association of Arab Universities, Faculty of Law – Cairo University, 2024. 2024.
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Voting Rights in Joint-Stock Companies and Related Restrictions under Saudi Companies Law
This study addresses the right to vote in joint-stock companies as one of the fundamental pillars of corporate governance and the instrument through which the will of shareholders is expressed in guiding the company and overseeing its management. The discussion begins by highlighting the regulatory importance.
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Protection of Industrial Property Rights in Saudi Arabia under the TRIPS Agreement
This research addresses the legal framework for the protection of industrial property rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in light of the international obligations arising from the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreements, highlighting how it has been
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Academic and International Qualifications
The progression of knowledge between law and management
The academic progression represents an extension of a solid scientific career that combines law and management, and has contributed to building an integrated vision that links legal grounding with administrative and strategic thinking. This integration has been reflected in professional practice through the application of academic knowledge in the development of governance, risk management, and decision-making, and the provision of legal and strategic solutions based on a scientific approach that is in line with international best practices.
Articles
The articles represent an extension of scientific and intellectual production, addressing legal, regulatory, and strategic topics with an analytical approach that links statutory texts, practical applications, and decision-making, thereby contributing to the enrichment of legal knowledge and supporting institutional practices.
Arbitration has long occupied a position of considerable significance within the Saudi legal tradition, rooted as it is in the principles of Hanbali Islamic jurisprudence — a tradition in which the resolution of disputes through consensual arbitral processes predates modern codification by centuries. The Kingdom’s early and proactive legislative engagement with arbitration is itself noteworthy: […]
While the world is currently experiencing a severe financial crisis whose first signs manifested as turmoil in the global financial sector, the repercussions of this crisis have compelled all global institutions to seek an effective solution to protect these institutions and shareholders’ funds from the consequences of bankruptcy. There is no doubt that mergers among […]
Commercial Agencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Commercial agencies are of great importance in the commercial and economic sphere within the Kingdom, particularly in light of Vision 2030, as they serve as a means to attract major foreign manufacturing companies of various goods to market and display their products in the Kingdom with confidence. […]
