Full Profile
Lama supports international and regional clients operating in the entertainment, technology, retail and consumer, hospitality and tourism, aviation, healthcare, education, financial services, real estate, and sports sectors. Based in Jeddah, Lama’s work for these clients focuses on regulatory and legal issues that arise under the laws of Saudi Arabia.
Lama completed her Masters of Law degree (LLM) from the University of California, Berkeley with a dual degree in Business Law and Intellectual Property in 2023, and Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from Dar-Alhekma University in 2019.
Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Lama trained at an international law firm based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Lama is fluent in Arabic and English.
Experience
- Assisting in advising a multinational technology corporation specialising in consumer electronics, cloud computing, computer software, and artificial intelligence (AI) on the launch of their technology in the Middle East, assisting with regulatory compliance assessments for their innovative AI-driven tools and platforms to ensure full compliance with regional legal frameworks.
- Contributing to advising key clients in relation to personal data transfers and data sovereignty requirements.
- Assisting a Saudi-based bank with a data protection compliance project, focusing on preparing amendment agreements for all contracts with service providers and third parties, ensuring alignment with KSA data protection laws. This involved drafting bilingual contracts (Arabic and English) to ensure compliance by both data processors and controllers.
- Assisting a ground services company with a data protection compliance project, focusing on preparing amendment agreements for all contracts with service providers and third parties, ensuring alignment with KSA data protection laws. This involved drafting bilingual contracts (Arabic and English) to ensure compliance by both data processors and controllers.
- Contributing to advising numerous multinational companies in relation to appointments of Data Protection Offices (DPOs) and mandatory registration of controllers in Saudi Arabia.
- Reviewing and amending data protection and intellectual property clauses for compliance with applicable Saudi laws.
- Drafting template services agreements.
- Advising a regional entity on the legal implications of onboarding e-signature technology, ensuring compliance with KSA regulations regarding electronic transactions.
- Supporting in advising a leading technology company on the local data centre requirements in the KSA, ensuring compliance with the relevant regulations.
- Contributing to advising one of the leading aviation companies in relation to several matters of commercial and Intellectual Property.
- Providing training on the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law to various clients.
- Contributing to advising a music acquisition company on copyright and Intellectual Property dispute issues concerning their business.
- Drafting Intellectual Property assignment agreements for various clients.
- Drafting website terms and conditions and privacy policies for numerous technology companies.
