diff --git a/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIRAttr.td b/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIRAttr.td
index 3ebc24951cfff..2845080030b92 100644
--- a/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIRAttr.td
+++ b/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIRAttr.td
@@ -200,4 +200,23 @@ def fir_OpenMPSafeTempArrayCopyAttr : fir_Attr<"OpenMPSafeTempArrayCopy"> {
   }];
 }
 
+def LocalitySpecTypeLocal : I32EnumAttrCase<"Local", 0, "local">;
+def LocalitySpecTypeLocalInit
+    : I32EnumAttrCase<"LocalInit", 1, "local_init">;
+
+def LocalitySpecifierType : I32EnumAttr<
+    "LocalitySpecifierType",
+    "Type of a locality specifier", [
+      LocalitySpecTypeLocal,
+      LocalitySpecTypeLocalInit
+    ]> {
+  let genSpecializedAttr = 0;
+  let cppNamespace = "::fir";
+}
+
+def LocalitySpecifierTypeAttr : EnumAttr<FIROpsDialect, LocalitySpecifierType,
+                                                "locality_specifier_type"> {
+  let assemblyFormat = "`{` `type` `=` $value `}`";
+}
+
 #endif // FIR_DIALECT_FIR_ATTRS
diff --git a/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.td b/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.td
index 0ba985641069b..aea57d2e8dd71 100644
--- a/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.td
+++ b/flang/include/flang/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.td
@@ -3485,6 +3485,137 @@ def fir_BoxTotalElementsOp
   let hasCanonicalizer = 1;
 }
 
+def YieldOp : fir_Op<"yield",
+    [Pure, ReturnLike, Terminator,
+     ParentOneOf<["LocalitySpecifierOp"]>]> {
+  let summary = "loop yield and termination operation";
+  let description = [{
+    "fir.yield" yields SSA values from the fir dialect op region and
+    terminates the region. The semantics of how the values are yielded is
+    defined by the parent operation.
+  }];
+
+  let arguments = (ins Variadic<AnyType>:$results);
+
+  let builders = [
+    OpBuilder<(ins), [{ build($_builder, $_state, {}); }]>
+  ];
+
+  let assemblyFormat = "( `(` $results^ `:` type($results) `)` )? attr-dict";
+}
+
+def fir_LocalitySpecifierOp : fir_Op<"local", [IsolatedFromAbove]> {
+  let summary = "Provides declaration of [first]private logic.";
+  let description = [{
+    This operation provides a declaration of how to implement the
+    localization of a variable. The dialect users should provide
+    which type should be allocated for this variable. The allocated (usually by
+    alloca) variable is passed to the initialization region which does everything
+    else (e.g. initialization of Fortran runtime descriptors). Information about
+    how to initialize the copy from the original item should be given in the
+    copy region, and if needed, how to deallocate memory (allocated by the
+    initialization region) in the dealloc region.
+
+    Examples:
+
+    * `local(x)` would not need any regions because no initialization is
+      required by the standard for i32 variables and this is not firstprivate.
+    ```mlir
+    fir.local {type = local} @x.localizer : i32
+    ```
+
+    * `local_init(x)` would be emitted as:
+    ```mlir
+    fir.local {type = local_init} @x.localizer : i32 copy {
+    ^bb0(%arg0: !fir.ref<i32>, %arg1: !fir.ref<i32>):
+    // %arg0 is the original host variable.
+    // %arg1 represents the memory allocated for this private variable.
+    ... copy from host to the localized clone ....
+    fir.yield(%arg1 : !fir.ref<i32>)
+    }
+    ```
+
+    * `local(x)` for "allocatables" would be emitted as:
+    ```mlir
+    fir.local {type = local} @x.privatizer : !some.type init {
+    ^bb0(%arg0: !some.pointer<!some.type>, %arg1: !some.pointer<!some.type>):
+    // initialize %arg1, using %arg0 as a mold for allocations.
+    // For example if %arg0 is a heap allocated array with a runtime determined
+    // length and !some.type is a runtime type descriptor, the init region
+    // will read the array length from %arg0, and heap allocate an array of the
+    // right length and initialize %arg1 to contain the array allocation and
+    // length.
+    fir.yield(%arg1 : !some.pointer<!some.type>)
+    } dealloc {
+    ^bb0(%arg0: !some.pointer<!some.type>):
+    // ... deallocate memory allocated by the init region...
+    // In the example above, this will free the heap allocated array data.
+    fir.yield
+    }
+    ```
+
+    There are no restrictions on the body except for:
+    - The `dealloc` regions has a single argument.
+    - The `init` & `copy` regions have 2 arguments.
+    - All three regions are terminated by `fir.yield` ops.
+    The above restrictions and other obvious restrictions (e.g. verifying the
+    type of yielded values) are verified by the custom op verifier. The actual
+    contents of the blocks inside all regions are not verified.
+
+    Instances of this op would then be used by ops that model directives that
+    accept data-sharing attribute clauses.
+
+    The `sym_name` attribute provides a symbol by which the privatizer op can be
+    referenced by other dialect ops.
+
+    The `type` attribute is the type of the value being localized. This type
+    will be implicitly allocated in MLIR->LLVMIR conversion and passed as the
+    second argument to the init region. Therefore the type of arguments to
+    the regions should be a type which represents a pointer to `type`.
+
+    The `locality_specifier_type` attribute specifies whether the localized
+    corresponds to a `local` or a `local_init` specifier.
+  }];
+
+  let arguments = (ins SymbolNameAttr:$sym_name,
+                       TypeAttrOf<AnyType>:$type,
+                       LocalitySpecifierTypeAttr:$locality_specifier_type);
+
+  let regions = (region AnyRegion:$init_region,
+                        AnyRegion:$copy_region,
+                        AnyRegion:$dealloc_region);
+
+  let assemblyFormat = [{
+    $locality_specifier_type $sym_name `:` $type
+      (`init` $init_region^)?
+      (`copy` $copy_region^)?
+      (`dealloc` $dealloc_region^)?
+      attr-dict
+  }];
+
+  let builders = [
+    OpBuilder<(ins CArg<"mlir::TypeRange">:$result,
+                   CArg<"mlir::StringAttr">:$sym_name,
+                   CArg<"mlir::TypeAttr">:$type)>
+  ];
+
+  let extraClassDeclaration = [{
+    /// Get the type for arguments to nested regions. This should
+    /// generally be either the same as getType() or some pointer
+    /// type (pointing to the type allocated by this op).
+    /// This method will return Type{nullptr} if there are no nested
+    /// regions.
+    mlir::Type getArgType() {
+      for (mlir::Region *region : getRegions())
+        for (mlir::Type ty : region->getArgumentTypes())
+          return ty;
+      return nullptr;
+    }
+  }];
+
+  let hasRegionVerifier = 1;
+}
+
 def fir_DoConcurrentOp : fir_Op<"do_concurrent",
     [SingleBlock, AutomaticAllocationScope]> {
   let summary = "do concurrent loop wrapper";
diff --git a/flang/lib/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.cpp b/flang/lib/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.cpp
index 05ef69169bae5..65ec730e134c2 100644
--- a/flang/lib/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Optimizer/Dialect/FIROps.cpp
@@ -4909,6 +4909,105 @@ void fir::BoxTotalElementsOp::getCanonicalizationPatterns(
   patterns.add<SimplifyBoxTotalElementsOp>(context);
 }
 
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+// LocalitySpecifierOp
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+llvm::LogicalResult fir::LocalitySpecifierOp::verifyRegions() {
+  mlir::Type argType = getArgType();
+  auto verifyTerminator = [&](mlir::Operation *terminator,
+                              bool yieldsValue) -> llvm::LogicalResult {
+    if (!terminator->getBlock()->getSuccessors().empty())
+      return llvm::success();
+
+    if (!llvm::isa<fir::YieldOp>(terminator))
+      return mlir::emitError(terminator->getLoc())
+             << "expected exit block terminator to be an `fir.yield` op.";
+
+    YieldOp yieldOp = llvm::cast<YieldOp>(terminator);
+    mlir::TypeRange yieldedTypes = yieldOp.getResults().getTypes();
+
+    if (!yieldsValue) {
+      if (yieldedTypes.empty())
+        return llvm::success();
+
+      return mlir::emitError(terminator->getLoc())
+             << "Did not expect any values to be yielded.";
+    }
+
+    if (yieldedTypes.size() == 1 && yieldedTypes.front() == argType)
+      return llvm::success();
+
+    auto error = mlir::emitError(yieldOp.getLoc())
+                 << "Invalid yielded value. Expected type: " << argType
+                 << ", got: ";
+
+    if (yieldedTypes.empty())
+      error << "None";
+    else
+      error << yieldedTypes;
+
+    return error;
+  };
+
+  auto verifyRegion = [&](mlir::Region &region, unsigned expectedNumArgs,
+                          llvm::StringRef regionName,
+                          bool yieldsValue) -> llvm::LogicalResult {
+    assert(!region.empty());
+
+    if (region.getNumArguments() != expectedNumArgs)
+      return mlir::emitError(region.getLoc())
+             << "`" << regionName << "`: "
+             << "expected " << expectedNumArgs
+             << " region arguments, got: " << region.getNumArguments();
+
+    for (mlir::Block &block : region) {
+      // MLIR will verify the absence of the terminator for us.
+      if (!block.mightHaveTerminator())
+        continue;
+
+      if (failed(verifyTerminator(block.getTerminator(), yieldsValue)))
+        return llvm::failure();
+    }
+
+    return llvm::success();
+  };
+
+  // Ensure all of the region arguments have the same type
+  for (mlir::Region *region : getRegions())
+    for (mlir::Type ty : region->getArgumentTypes())
+      if (ty != argType)
+        return emitError() << "Region argument type mismatch: got " << ty
+                           << " expected " << argType << ".";
+
+  mlir::Region &initRegion = getInitRegion();
+  if (!initRegion.empty() &&
+      failed(verifyRegion(getInitRegion(), /*expectedNumArgs=*/2, "init",
+                          /*yieldsValue=*/true)))
+    return llvm::failure();
+
+  LocalitySpecifierType dsType = getLocalitySpecifierType();
+
+  if (dsType == LocalitySpecifierType::Local && !getCopyRegion().empty())
+    return emitError("`local` specifiers do not require a `copy` region.");
+
+  if (dsType == LocalitySpecifierType::LocalInit && getCopyRegion().empty())
+    return emitError(
+        "`local_init` specifier require at least a `copy` region.");
+
+  if (dsType == LocalitySpecifierType::LocalInit &&
+      failed(verifyRegion(getCopyRegion(), /*expectedNumArgs=*/2, "copy",
+                          /*yieldsValue=*/true)))
+    return llvm::failure();
+
+  if (!getDeallocRegion().empty() &&
+      failed(verifyRegion(getDeallocRegion(), /*expectedNumArgs=*/1, "dealloc",
+                          /*yieldsValue=*/false)))
+    return llvm::failure();
+
+  return llvm::success();
+}
+
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 // DoConcurrentOp
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
diff --git a/flang/test/Fir/do_concurrent.fir b/flang/test/Fir/do_concurrent.fir
index 8e80ffb9c7b0b..4e55777402428 100644
--- a/flang/test/Fir/do_concurrent.fir
+++ b/flang/test/Fir/do_concurrent.fir
@@ -90,3 +90,22 @@ func.func @dc_2d_reduction(%i_lb: index, %i_ub: index, %i_st: index,
 // CHECK:             fir.store %[[J_IV_CVT]] to %[[J]] : !fir.ref<i32>
 // CHECK:           }
 // CHECK:         }
+
+
+fir.local {type = local} @local_privatizer : i32
+
+// CHECK:   fir.local {type = local} @[[LOCAL_PRIV_SYM:local_privatizer]] : i32
+
+fir.local {type = local_init} @local_init_privatizer : i32 copy {
+^bb0(%arg0: !fir.ref<i32>, %arg1: !fir.ref<i32>):
+    %0 = fir.load %arg0 : !fir.ref<i32>
+    fir.store %0 to %arg1 : !fir.ref<i32>
+    fir.yield(%arg1 : !fir.ref<i32>)
+}
+
+// CHECK:   fir.local {type = local_init} @[[LOCAL_INIT_PRIV_SYM:local_init_privatizer]] : i32
+// CHECK:   ^bb0(%[[ORIG_VAL:.*]]: !fir.ref<i32>, %[[LOCAL_VAL:.*]]: !fir.ref<i32>):
+// CHECK:      %[[ORIG_VAL_LD:.*]] = fir.load %[[ORIG_VAL]]
+// CHECK:      fir.store %[[ORIG_VAL_LD]] to %[[LOCAL_VAL]] : !fir.ref<i32>
+// CHECK:      fir.yield(%[[LOCAL_VAL]] : !fir.ref<i32>)
+// CHECK:   }