About Us

WHO WE ARE

Experience built inside the regulatory system.

ValueExperts is a Riyadh-based regulatory and corporate advisory firm. We advise international and Saudi financial institutions, investment managers, family offices and corporates on establishing, licensing and operating regulated and commercial businesses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The firm was established in 2022 by senior practitioners who spent the preceding two decades inside Saudi and Gulf capital market institutions: building compliance and governance frameworks from inception, running licensed firms as chief executives and heads of asset management, and sitting on the boards of CMA-regulated funds.

That experience of what the Capital Market Authority expects, and of how a licensed institution actually operates once approved, is the basis of the advice we give.

WHAT WE DO

Two connected areas of specialist advisory.

We combine capital markets expertise with practical market-entry knowledge to help businesses establish and operate successfully in Saudi Arabia.

Capital Markets

We advise on Capital Market Authority licensing across all licensed securities activities.

Dealing
Custody
Managing Investments
Managing Investments and Operating Funds
Arranging
Advising

Our work includes selecting the right licence and structure, preparing the regulatory business plan and financial forecast, sizing capital against the CMA's prudential requirements, identifying and registering the required persons and board, drafting the policy and manual suite, and managing the application through in-principle approval, establishment and commencement of business.

After licensing, we provide outsourced compliance, MLRO and finance functions to firms that do not yet warrant a full in-house team.

Market Entry

We advise foreign investors on the Saudi establishment process and the requirements that follow incorporation.

Ministry of Investment registration
Ministry of Commerce incorporation
Entity structuring
Capital and ownership requirements
Post-incorporation registrations

For clients that require it, we provide General Manager and Manager on Record services, government relations, and ongoing corporate, HR and finance support.

WHO WE ACT FOR

Supporting businesses entering and operating in Saudi Arabia.

Our clients are global asset managers and private banks, family offices, venture capital and private equity firms, fintechs, financial market infrastructure providers and international corporates.

We are regularly engaged by international law firms as their implementation partner in the Kingdom, delivering the regulatory and corporate execution that sits alongside their legal advice.

Asset Managers Private Banks Family Offices Private Equity Venture Capital Fintechs Market Infrastructure International Corporates

HOW WE WORK

Strategic advice, not form-filling.

We are strategic advisers, not a form-filling service.

Our role is to determine what structure, licence and capital a client's business actually requires, to tell the client early where the regulator is unlikely to agree, and to manage the process so that the application, and the business behind it, is approved without avoidable delay.

Engagements are led by senior people from start to finish.

2022 Established

TRACK RECORD

Experience across the full CMA licensing landscape.

Since 2022 the firm has advised on CMA licence applications covering all securities activities and prepared regulatory business plans, financial forecasts and policy suites for applicants ranging from global alternative asset managers to first-time Saudi family office platforms.

LEADERSHIP

Senior experience at the centre of every mandate.

Ahmed leads the firm's capital markets and regulatory advisory practice and is the senior point of contact on every CMA licensing mandate ValueExperts undertakes.

He has spent more than twenty-five years in financial services across Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and the United Kingdom, seventeen of them in the Kingdom. Before founding ValueExperts he held senior executive roles inside CMA-licensed institutions.

At Muscat Capital, later SICO Capital, he built the firm's compliance, governance and control framework from inception as Head of Compliance and Governance and was its primary interface with the Capital Market Authority for nine years, before serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer and then Head of Asset Management, with oversight of public funds, REITs, private mandates and the advisory business.

He subsequently served as Acting Chief Executive Officer of Aditum Capital, a CMA-licensed securities adviser.

Earlier in his career he was Head of Compliance for SHUAA Capital across its UAE, DIFC and Saudi entities, and Head of Compliance and Finance at Rasmala Investment Bank in Dubai and London, where he was the FCA-approved compliance officer for the UK business.

He has sat on the boards of Al Mashaar REIT, the Riyadh Real Estate Fund, the SICO Money Market Fund and the Oman Premier Fund.

Qualifications & Credentials

CIMA CAMS ICA International Diploma in AML Advanced Certificate in Compliance CME-1 CME-2 CME-4 CISI Level 3 Certificate

He is a Saudi Premium Resident based in Riyadh.

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