diff --git a/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/global_consts/src/main.nr b/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/global_consts/src/main.nr
index 9bcca2b8071..2ed6e4593dd 100644
--- a/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/global_consts/src/main.nr
+++ b/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/global_consts/src/main.nr
@@ -12,12 +12,19 @@ struct Dummy {
      y: [Field; foo::MAGIC_NUMBER]
 }
 
+struct Test {
+    v: Field,
+}
+global VALS: [Test; 1] = [Test { v: 100 }];
+global NESTED = [VALS, VALS];
+
 fn main(a: [Field; M + N - N], b: [Field; 30 + N / 2], c : pub [Field; foo::MAGIC_NUMBER], d: [Field; foo::bar::N]) {
      let test_struct = Dummy { x: d, y: c };
 
      for i in 0..foo::MAGIC_NUMBER {
           assert(c[i] == foo::MAGIC_NUMBER);
           assert(test_struct.y[i] == foo::MAGIC_NUMBER);
+          assert(test_struct.y[i] != NESTED[1][0].v);
      }
 
      assert(N != M);
diff --git a/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/strings/src/main.nr b/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/strings/src/main.nr
index bee2370201c..edf5fff55b4 100644
--- a/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/strings/src/main.nr
+++ b/crates/nargo_cli/tests/test_data/strings/src/main.nr
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 use dep::std;
 
+// Test global string literals
+global HELLO_WORLD = "hello world";
+
 fn main(message : pub str<11>, y : Field, hex_as_string : str<4>, hex_as_field : Field) {
     let mut bad_message = "hello world";
 
     assert(message == "hello world");
-    bad_message = "helld world";
+    assert(message == HELLO_WORLD);
     let x = 10;
     let z = x * 5;
     std::println(10);
@@ -16,6 +19,7 @@ fn main(message : pub str<11>, y : Field, hex_as_string : str<4>, hex_as_field :
     assert(y == 5); // Change to y != 5 to see how the later print statements are not called
     std::println(array);
 
+    bad_message = "helld world";
     std::println(bad_message);
     assert(message != bad_message);
 
diff --git a/crates/noirc_frontend/src/hir/def_collector/dc_crate.rs b/crates/noirc_frontend/src/hir/def_collector/dc_crate.rs
index e974961a405..76fbea289be 100644
--- a/crates/noirc_frontend/src/hir/def_collector/dc_crate.rs
+++ b/crates/noirc_frontend/src/hir/def_collector/dc_crate.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use crate::hir::Context;
 use crate::node_interner::{FuncId, NodeInterner, StmtId, StructId, TypeAliasId};
 use crate::{
     ExpressionKind, Generics, Ident, LetStatement, NoirFunction, NoirStruct, NoirTypeAlias,
-    ParsedModule, Shared, Type, TypeBinding, UnresolvedGenerics, UnresolvedType,
+    ParsedModule, Shared, Type, TypeBinding, UnresolvedGenerics, UnresolvedType, Literal,
 };
 use fm::FileId;
 use iter_extended::vecmap;
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ impl DefCollector {
         //
         // Additionally, we must resolve integer globals before structs since structs may refer to
         // the values of integer globals as numeric generics.
-        let (integer_globals, other_globals) =
-            filter_integer_globals(def_collector.collected_globals);
+        let (literal_globals, other_globals) =
+            filter_literal_globals(def_collector.collected_globals);
 
-        let mut file_global_ids = resolve_globals(context, integer_globals, crate_id, errors);
+        let mut file_global_ids = resolve_globals(context, literal_globals, crate_id, errors);
 
         resolve_type_aliases(context, def_collector.collected_type_aliases, crate_id, errors);
 
@@ -274,13 +274,15 @@ where
 }
 
 /// Separate the globals Vec into two. The first element in the tuple will be the
-/// integer literal globals, and the second will be all other globals.
-fn filter_integer_globals(
+/// literal globals, except for arrays, and the second will be all other globals.
+/// We exclude array literals as they can contain complex types
+fn filter_literal_globals(
     globals: Vec<UnresolvedGlobal>,
 ) -> (Vec<UnresolvedGlobal>, Vec<UnresolvedGlobal>) {
-    globals
-        .into_iter()
-        .partition(|global| matches!(&global.stmt_def.expression.kind, ExpressionKind::Literal(_)))
+    globals.into_iter().partition(|global| match &global.stmt_def.expression.kind {
+        ExpressionKind::Literal(literal) => !matches!(literal, Literal::Array(_)),
+        _ => false,
+    })
 }
 
 fn resolve_globals(