Legal Services for Corporations and Commercial Businesses
- Entity Formation and Registration
Structuring companies legally, completing official procedures, and issuing necessary licenses. This ensures full compliance with local laws and mitigates legal risks associated with establishment.
- Restructuring and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Legal support for M&A transactions, ensuring statutory compliance in internal and external structuring. Managing legal and tax risks related to M&A, including commercial and financial agreements. This improves efficiency of operations, maximizes growth opportunities, and reduces tax and legal risks.
- Contracts and Agreements Management
Drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, commercial agencies, and operational agreements, ensuring compliance with local and international laws. This achieves client rights protection, guarantees compliance by other parties, and minimizes potential disputes.
- Corporate Governance
Designing corporate governance and regulatory compliance policies, overseeing implementation, and training administrative and legal personnel. This enhances transparency and regulatory compliance, and strengthens the client’s reputation among investors and customers.
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
| Negotiation and mediation for dispute settlement through formal or informal procedures before competent authorities or independent mediators. Representation before national and international arbitration centers (ICC, LCIA, etc.), and legal representation in commercial courts and quasi-judicial committees (e.g., commercial papers committees, banking disputes committees). |
Real Estate Services and Debt Management
(Real Estate Litigation): Litigation in ownership, lease issues, and real estate contract disputes, contributing to the swift and efficient recovery of real estate rights and minimizing dispute-related losses.
(Mortgages and Guarantees): Drafting and formalizing mortgage and chattel agreements, notarizing them with competent authorities, and following up on procedures and rights collection, ensuring legally secured protection for the client’s interests.
(Debt Management): Developing plans for collecting non-performing debts and restructuring financial obligations. This helps improve cash flows and reduces the financial risks associated with bad debts.
Foreign Investment Services
(Establishment of Foreign Ventures): Supporting foreign investors in market entry and issuing necessary licenses. Providing legal consultation across various fields and setting up internal policies and procedures for foreign companies to ensure compliance with local regulations.
(Investment Dispute Resolution): Legal representation before arbitration, courts, and specialized local and international judicial bodies dealing with investment disputes, aiming to protect investors’ interests and ensure quick, effective resolution.
Waqf (Endowment) Care and Management
(Legal and Sharia Drafting): Drafting Waqf documents in compliance with Sharia and legal regulations, considering Islamic jurisprudence and local systems.
(Waqf Governance): Designing governance structures for endowment entities to ensure sustainability, maximize Waqf returns, and enhance administrative efficiency.
(Waqf Dispute Resolution): Representation of Endowments in Sharia courts or specialized committees in case of disputes, aiming to protect the Waqf and ensure its continued benefit.
Intellectual Property (IP) Services
(Registration Procedures): Preparing and submitting applications for trademark or invention registration to the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP), following up on applications, and issuing certificates. This contributes to protecting client interests and preventing infringement of IP rights.
(Legal Protection): Representing clients before courts and competent committees in case of trademark or patent infringement. Drafting licensing, exclusive, or joint-use agreements to preserve the owner’s rights and define the licensees’ obligations.
Litigation and General Pleading Services
(Civil, Commercial, Criminal, and Labor Cases at Various Stages): Representing clients in civil claims before general courts, personal status courts, labor courts, friendly settlement offices, and the Taradhi platform.
(Preparing Pleadings and Objections): Drafting statements of claim, defenses, objections, and appeals before the competent courts, according to the latest procedural rules. Coordinating with legal or technical experts (accountants, engineers, etc.) when necessary to support the client’s position and improve success chances through accurate legal documentation.
- (Management of Internal Labor Investigations): Handling workplace violations and ethics issues, gathering evidence, interviewing concerned parties, and preparing comprehensive reports with findings and recommendations. This helps resolve labor disputes quickly and prevents escalation to legal stages.
(Review of Labor Policies): Updating internal work regulations to ensure compliance with the Labor Law and its executive regulations.
- (Legal Support in Criminal Cases): Assisting companies and institutions in detecting and pursuing internal criminal violations (embezzlement, fraud, abuse of authority, etc.) to protect corporate interests and minimize losses resulting from criminal cases.
(Cooperation with Official Authorities): Working alongside the police and public prosecution to provide legal support when official investigations are initiated.
(Drafting Legislation and Regulations): Drafting various pleadings in civil cases before general courts, personal status courts, labor courts, commercial courts, and commercial arbitration, tailored to internal regulations and serving client interests.
الداخلية (Drafting Internal Regulations and Policies): Drafting Bylaws for companies and large institutions, ensuring compliance with current legal and Sharia standards. Establishing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in various areas such as governance, HR, procurement, etc.
(Legal Analysis, Legislative Research, and Legal Consultation): Conducting in-depth studies and research on enacted laws, proposing solutions for developing the legislative environment. Providing consultations to governmental, semi-governmental, and private entities in the process of drafting laws and regulatory frameworks.
(Contract Notarization): Preparing and notarizing sale, purchase, lease, and financial lease contracts, as well as commercial partnerships. Establishing internal systems for contract management and document notarization for business owners, which contributes to ensuring the strength and legal soundness of contracts and protecting parties’ rights.
(Notarization of Powers of Attorney and Authorizations): Issuing general and special Powers of Attorney and official authorizations in compliance with statutory requirements of competent authorities.
(Digital Platforms): Utilizing the latest technology approved by official bodies to simplify notarization procedures, reduce costs and time, educate clients on the use of electronic platforms and digital signing mechanisms, and ensure security and reliabilit