About

A highly respected Middle Eastern corporate counsel, Nicholas Diacos joined Banque Saudi Fransi in 2014, with the task of expanding and restructuring the institution’s now 15-lawyer legal function. As well as his ongoing recruitment drive, Diacos has implemented comprehensive precedent streamlining and updating, and spearheaded integrated workflow systems. As well as ‘building a team and systems, virtually from scratch’, Diacos is praised for his role in major transactional and contentious issues. He describes the ‘unexpected variety, size and complexity of the work’ as one of the things which gives him the most satisfaction in his current role.