Corporate

Choosing a legal form is no longer a formality but a strategic decision: the new Companies Law has widened the menu - limited liability, joint stock, simplified joint stock, and partnerships - each with distinct consequences for financing, governance, exit readiness, and investor entry. A poorly considered choice at incorporation reveals its cost later: at a funding round, a shareholder dispute, or a sale opportunity.

We handle entity formation before the Ministry of Commerce and the competent authorities; draft articles of association, bylaws, and shareholders' agreements that capture the preference, liquidation, tag-along, drag-along, and exit rights now available under the new law; and structure holding and subsidiary groups for legal risk insulation and scalable growth. We also guide foreign investors through Ministry of Investment requirements under the Investment Law and related activity licensing.

We tie legal structuring to the growth plan, not merely the moment of incorporation: the entity we form today is designed to admit a partner tomorrow and absorb a reorganization the day after - without demolition and rebuilding.

Governance is no longer a corporate luxury: the Companies Law imposes personal liability on directors and managers for violations, the Corporate Governance Regulations issued by the Capital Market Authority set a detailed supervisory framework for listed companies, and sectoral regulators tighten their requirements year after year. The absence of a clear governance framework surfaces at the worst possible moment - a shareholder dispute, a regulatory inspection, or financial distress.

We design complete governance frameworks: internal bylaws, delegation-of-authority matrices, board and committee charters, conflict-of-interest and related-party policies, and regulatory compliance programs - aligned with the Companies Law and its regulations, CMA requirements for listed companies, and sectoral supervisory frameworks.

We also support board and committee secretarial work, from meeting preparation to drafting minutes and resolutions, and accompany family businesses through institutional transformation and generational succession arrangements that protect the enterprise through transition.

Contracts are the vessel of day-to-day commerce, and weak drafting is the most common source of disputes. The stakes have risen with the Civil Transactions Law, which established a comprehensive written reference for contract formation, effects, and compensation for breach, and with special statutes governing specific contractual forms such as the Commercial Franchise Law.

We draft, review, and negotiate the full suite of commercial agreements: supply, distribution, and commercial agency; franchise agreements; services contracts and SLAs; subcontracts; and confidentiality and non-compete arrangements - calibrating liability, indemnity, termination, and force majeure provisions to the Civil Transactions Law and settled judicial principles.

We also build standardized contract templates and internal negotiation playbooks that shorten deal cycles and unify the level of protection across departments, so no contract depends on the improvisation of its drafter.

Employment relations are among the most sensitive fronts in running an enterprise: the Labor Law and its regulations are continuously updated, government employment platforms and Saudization requirements impose moving obligations, and the labor courts keep consolidating judicial principles that many employers first encounter as defendants.

We advise on employment contracts of all types, internal work regulations, compensation and incentive structures, HR policies, disciplinary procedures, and termination and end-of-service settlements - drafted to pre-empt disputes, not merely manage them.

We represent enterprises before labor dispute settlement bodies and the labor courts in individual and collective claims, and support them through inspections and compliance with labor market regulators.