{"id":160756,"date":"2026-08-17T04:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/dwf-is-first-global-200-firm-to-shutter-riyadh-after-saudi-relaxes-rules-for-foreign-ownership\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:52:24","slug":"dwf-is-first-global-200-firm-to-shutter-riyadh-after-saudi-relaxes-rules-for-foreign-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/dwf-is-first-global-200-firm-to-shutter-riyadh-after-saudi-relaxes-rules-for-foreign-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"DWF is First Global 200 Firm to Shutter Riyadh After Saudi Relaxes Rules for Foreign Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023.<\/p>\n

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The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023.<\/p>\n

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The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-wbTX0S.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}