Formation and Investment, Governance, Transactions and Exit
Corporate & Governance
Integrated legal work across the life of a company, from formation and investment to governance, expansion, exit and the settlement of disputes.
/ The Practice
We give companies, investors and founders integrated legal work across the life of the company, from formation and investment to governance, expansion, exit and the settlement of disputes. We protect the client's legal and commercial interests, and tie the legal advice to the administrative, financial and investment decision behind it.
/ Practice Area Details
Scope: Handled by the corporate and governance team, with the disputes team joining where a dispute exists or may arise.
Serves: Companies, investors and founders, foreign companies entering the Saudi market, and startups
Focus: Legal advisory, formation and market entry, governance and compliance, contracts, transactions and due diligence, disputes and arbitration, share allocation and exit, founders' rights and intellectual property.
Engagement: Advice, structuring, drafting, negotiation, follow-through.
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/ The Reading
“We want to enter the Saudi market with capable legal support behind us.” The answer begins with the structure that will carry the business, not with the licence alone; the structure is what fixes ownership, authority, and the way out when the time comes.
/ Scope of Services
Corporate Legal Advisory
We give companies continuing or on-demand legal advice across their work and their daily and strategic decisions. That covers reviewing transactions, giving legal opinions, tracking obligations, and supporting management in decisions that carry legal effect.
The company gets steady access to legal expertise, a quick response, and a cost it can predict more readily than handling each matter on its own.
Formation, Investment and Saudi Market Entry
We help investors, entrepreneurs and foreign companies choose the right legal structure, establish their business, and complete the regulatory requirements to start and expand in the Kingdom.
The service covers studying the activity and the structure, formation and licences, the founding agreements, the regulatory requirements, and legal readiness to operate.
Disputes, Mediation and Arbitration
We manage commercial and legal disputes from assessing the position and the options open, through negotiation, mediation and settlement, to advocacy or arbitration and the enforcement of judgments and awards.
We focus on the route that serves the client most efficiently rather than assuming litigation is always the first answer, and we protect their legal position from the outset of the dispute.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
We design and review governance frameworks, policies and internal controls, and we assess legal and regulatory risk and the level of compliance with the regulations and rules.
The service covers gap analysis, drafting policies, internal controls, regulatory monitoring, investigations, and compliance training.
Contracts, Transactions and Due Diligence
We draft and review contracts, agreements and transactions, and we examine the legal risks and obligations attached to investments, acquisitions and commercial dealings.
We focus on surfacing risk before signature or completion, and on identifying hidden obligations, the parties' rights, and the mechanisms for protection, exit and indemnity.
Share Allocation, Exit and Liquidation
We advise and represent on redistributing shares, partners entering and leaving, share sales, exit, ending partnerships, and voluntary or judicial liquidation.
We work to order the parties' rights, settle the obligations, and protect the economic value of the shares and assets.
Startups, Founders' and Partners' Rights and Intellectual Property
We work with startups from before formation through founder and shareholder agreements, ordering ownership and shares, investment and funding, voting and exit rights, and protecting intellectual property.
We also provide due diligence for startups as they grow.
/ Method
We read the company, its ownership, its management and the stage it has reached, then set out what needs handling and which documents each stage calls for.
/ What We Focus On
The decision before the document
We tie the legal advice to the administrative, financial and investment decision. The document follows once the decision is clear, not before.
The more efficient route
We choose between negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation by what protects the client, not by what the file is used to.
Alongside, for the whole life
What is built at formation is what protects the company at expansion, at exit, or in a dispute, so we stay with it through every stage.
