Since its formation in July 2004, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) has taken various measures to improve corporate governance and disclosure standards for Saudi Arabian public companies, which has also resulted in the improvement of such standards among private companies that may seek to be publicly listed in the future.
This chapter contains an overview of the legal framework in which local and foreign investors operate in Saudi Arabia. It includes a run-down of dispute resolution and bankruptcy rules, an outline of the regulations affecting foreign investors in Saudi Arabia, and an examination of the evolving regulatory framework in place across the Kingdom.
The accession of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in January 2015 was the start of a new chapter for the Kingdom, and with the fall in global oil prices and continued regional turbulence there are undoubtedly challenges to be met. However, domestic stability, combined with the government’s commitment to major development projects and sustained focus on economic diversification, indicate a positive overall outlook for the country moving forward.
In 2014, a plan to stimulate industrial growth was launched by the minister of industry, trade, investment and digital economy. The new plan is set to run through 2020 and overhauls several areas under the former plan.
There are many signs that Morocco is on the path to becoming a financial and economic crossroad between Africa and the rest of the world. First, the EU has granted the country “advanced status”, which is intended to help progressively integrate Morocco into the EU’s internal market, and, second, Casablanca Finance City (CFC) was established in...
For several months, the use of local development companies (LDCs) seems to be the solution to all the evils inherent in the implementation of public projects. The city of Casablanca alone created seven of them between 2008 and 2014, with varying degrees of success and reservation, voiced mainly by locally elected representatives. However,...
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