About Christiana O’Connell-Schizas

Christiana O’Connell-Schizas is an English-qualified solicitor who joined Legal Advisors in 2014 and leads the Saudi employment and compensation practice. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and actively advises both Saudi and foreign clients on strategic employment law matters, including onboarding, internal policies, secondments, holding disciplinary meetings and issuing disciplinary penalties, terminations, Saudization and nationalisation requirements, preparing compensation plans such as stock options, and leading employment transactions in the context of a reorganisation, acquisition, spin-off, merger, outsourcing, etc. Christiana has also worked at Baker McKenzie’s Bahrain and London offices.