Overview
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Mariame Almoghanam

Riyadh

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate – Legal Projects

Data Volt
03.2025 - Current
  • Leading legal project management efforts across major infrastructure and energy-related projects.
  • Coordinating cross-functional legal input for data center development agreements, including EPC contracts, land acquisition, and operational frameworks.
  • Managing strategic legal partnerships and overseeing the execution of project documentation in line with local and international regulations.
  • Supporting executive leadership in project structuring and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Successfully streamlined legal workflows across multiple jurisdictions, enhancing turnaround time and project alignment.
  • Contributed to the structuring of a multi-million-dollar data center initiative in Central Asia with minimized legal exposure and optimized compliance procedures.

Legal Specialist-Projects Legal
04.2024 - 02.2025
  • Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated a range of legal documents, including, but not limited to, NDAs, EPC contracts, Letters of Intent, Sales Purchase Agreements, Lease Agreements, Shareholders' Agreements, and Executive Summaries.
  • Managed the legal aspects of DataVolt's major projects, with a focus on hyperscale data center developments across the EMEA and Central Asian regions, valued between ~$500M and ~$2.5B.
  • Provided legal support for land transactions, including both lease and freehold arrangements, and assisted with drafting LOIs, Sales Purchase Agreements, entity incorporation, and financial transactions.
  • Advised on dispute resolution, including arbitration under various jurisdictions, and facilitated the implementation of necessary procedures.
  • Oversaw insurance management for land ownership, construction, and operational phases in partnership with external stakeholders.
  • Administered the trademark registration process to secure the company’s intellectual property.
  • Prepared and managed insurance proposals to ensure comprehensive coverage during construction and operations, working closely with external partners.
  • Conducted compliance reviews and managed background checks to ensure full adherence to legal and regulatory standards.
  • Successfully navigated complex legal negotiations for DataVolt's partnership agreements, contributing to the company's expansion in new markets.
  • Played a pivotal role in securing favorable terms in NDAs and other agreements, balancing corporate interests with legal obligations.
  • Facilitated the seamless execution of contracts and agreements, ensuring alignment with both business objectives and legal frameworks.

Paralegal

Held & Hines LLP
11.2021 - 08.2022
  • Drafted over twenty notices of claims and complaints.
  • Drafted Letters of Intent, Sales Purchase Agreements and Lease Agreements.
  • Produced legal memorandums for multiple contract dispute cases.
  • Drafted motions, complaints, and answers for class action cases for T Mobile, Robinhood, Uber and Lyft.
  • Conducted legal research using LexisNexis for real estate, contractual, corporations, personal injury, and civil rights cases.
  • Provided legal assistance to the partners with a contract dispute case for a construction company against a real estate company and supported the partners as a second chair at trial.
  • Successfully filed more than thirty personal injury cases which resulted in settlements or final court orders for the firm’s clients leading to over USD 300,00 in profit for the firm.
  • Drafted real estate contracts for the firm’s clients which included customized terms and conditions and details that led to closing deals exceeding USD 10m.
  • Solely led under direct supervision by partners, the firm’s class-action cases operations from collecting the plaintiffs’ information to drafting and filing the claims to finally sending the compensation checks to the clients.

Research Assistant

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy
02.2020 - 02.2022
  • Updated the artificial intelligence policies and events for the Central Asia region.
  • Prepared and edited reports, presentations, and articles related to Artificial intelligence policies for different countries.
  • Drafted reports and recommendations regarding research outcomes of the United Nations and human rights commissions for updates to the human rights sections on the AI SOCIAL CONTRACT INDEX 2020 report.
  • Corrected subnational information related to human rights and AI in Saudi Arabia, by referring to the Saudi Human Rights Commission, in the AI SOCIAL CONTRACT INDEX 2020 report which led to reflecting accurate facts and representing Saudi Arabia accurately.

Legal Intern

McDermott Will & Emery
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • Conducted thorough research utilizing Westlaw for international commercial arbitration cases under the International Commercial Court and drafted legal memoranda.
  • Sourced applicable rules for international disputes under the Dubai International Arbitration Center and drafted the related contracts.
  • Researched the North American Free Trade Agreement along with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for 2020-2021 and prepared legal analysis for the final awards.
  • Redacted confidential information from legal documents for large international corporations.
  • Successfully created a database for the final awards of the commercial arbitration cases under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for 2020-2021 which is a useful reference to refer to for the firm’s lawyers, partners, and paralegals when they have related cases.
  • Successfully drafted an arbitration clause for a large Qatari gas company.

Education

LL.M - International Business and Economic Law

Georgetown University Law Center
05.2021

Certificate - Intensive English Language Program

University of Kansas City Missouri
05.2019

L.L. B - field of Laws

King Saud University College of Law & Political Sciences
05.2016

Skills

  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Legal Memoranda
  • NDA
  • Contracts Drafting
  • LexisNexis & Westlaw
  • Real Estate
  • Business Development
  • Compliance
  • Research & Analysis
  • Corporate Law

Certification

  • Computer Science for Lawyers | HarvardX
  • International Commercial Arbitration | Georgetown Law Center
  • Legal analyses and writing | Georgetown Law Center

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Arabic
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Associate – Legal Projects

Data Volt
03.2025 - Current

Legal Specialist-Projects Legal
04.2024 - 02.2025

Paralegal

Held & Hines LLP
11.2021 - 08.2022

Legal Intern

McDermott Will & Emery
01.2021 - 04.2021

Research Assistant

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy
02.2020 - 02.2022

Certificate - Intensive English Language Program

University of Kansas City Missouri

L.L. B - field of Laws

King Saud University College of Law & Political Sciences

LL.M - International Business and Economic Law

Georgetown University Law Center
Mariame Almoghanam