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In order to provide excellent services to customers, and to accurately identify business needs, we have been able to provide the appropriate expertise to provide our customers with systems-compatible outputs in accordance with the highest practices in this field.


We at EBC Legal Services Company constantly strive with every effort to be a professional arm that supports the business of clients from entities and individuals. This ensures the proper performance of their work and keeps them away from any obstacles that affect their goals.

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Our vision

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Working within one team and dealing with all types of legal issues and challenges that individuals and companies face in their lives

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Our message

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Providing the best legal services through which we seek to satisfy the client in accordance with the provisions of Islamic Sharia and the regulations in force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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the goal

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Spreading and spreading the legal culture within business circles and providing the highest quality satisfactory legal services to clients.

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services

services

Al-Shaalan Legal Services Office provides assistance and advice to its clients to confront all legal and regulatory challenges at the local, regional and international levels. Through its lawyers and legal advisors with legal and regulatory experience. The office specializes in commercial, industrial, agricultural and customs consultations.

Our services include: 

Legal office departments

• Customer Service Center Department
• Secretarial Department
• Issues Study Department
• Consultants Department.
• Issues formulation department
• Department of Public Administration
• Commercial Laws Department
• Customs Law Department
• Customs Law Department
• Department of Maritime Law

Documentation and legal training

Notary service: An electronic service provided by the Ministry of Justice through licensed notaries, for individuals, institutions, and companies to issue or terminate agencies, authenticate corporate contracts, and empty real estate.

We work to qualify legal teams that are legally capable and capable of achieving the best for establishments.

Legal examination to deny ignorance

After the due diligence legal examination is essential in determining whether it is appropriate to proceed with the deal and the acquisition process or abandon it, and at what price, after identifying the issues, matters and problems surrounding the company to be purchased, which usually helps in fully understanding this company, factory, facility, or other. What is noteworthy is that the legal due diligence examination is full of surprises and takes a long time, as local companies and institutions are not accustomed to it or to how it is done and conducted.

Regulations on acquisitions and mergers

The Takeover and Merger Regulations apply to any case in which there is a purchase or restricted offer of shares of any company listed in the Saudi Stock Market, or any reverse takeover offer for any of the companies listed in the Saudi Stock Market. The Takeover Regulations ensure that the actions of the offering company and the offered company take into account the interests of shareholders. And that it has provided them with sufficient information and advice that will enable them to make sound decisions. After the offering company makes the necessary announcements, it must submit to the Capital Market Authority to approve the schedule for the acquisition process, including shareholders’ approval of the acquisition process, and submit the final offer document, publish it, and deliver it to the board of directors of the offered company and the earliest deadline. To conclude the deal and the last date for accepting the offer after which acceptance becomes unconditional.

Franchise - franchise

Franchise has become one of the most common means of conducting foreign investment business within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is characterized by flexibility over commercial agencies and does not require the resources of a branch of a foreign company or a joint venture (mixed company). Since the franchise system is soon to be issued, the foreign company must be careful before Granting any franchise, changing the franchise license holder, or canceling the franchise contract. In order to establish a franchise within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia market, the franchise licensor must choose the person to whom he grants the license and register the franchise with the Ministry of Commerce and Investment. The franchise grantor must be original and not licensed by the original franchise owner from Another country, and the parties have the right to agree on all the terms and conditions of the franchise contract.

Tender regulations

There is no single central body that governs government tenders. Each government body has the right to conclude contracts on its own, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been replaced. Government Tenders and Procurement System. This system includes articles that regulate the process of submitting tenders, bids or government purchases, the implementation and award of contracts and tenders, the general conditions of contracts, advance payments, the fine for delay in implementation, and contract forms. etc
These regulations included materials regulating the process of announcing tenders, how to submit them, the process of evaluating these tenders, and the time required to accept the award of the tender. Al-Shaalan Law Firm and Legal Consultations is responsible for preparing and reviewing the tender, including the form, guarantee, general conditions, award letter, implementation guarantees, and payment of amounts to subcontractors and workers.

• Lump sum contracts

• Turnkey design/build contracts

• Engineering contracts

• Contracting claims

• Deposit agreement (custody) in lieu of retained amounts

• Conditional and unconditional violations

Collection and litigation services for commercial papers

We rely on our long experience in collection and litigation to recover financial rights, so that clients are guided and provide the appropriate and optimal solution for each case, either recovering debts through peaceful means (if the debtor is willing to cooperate voluntarily) or through litigation to reach a result to resolve the dispute.

Restructuring debts and recovering financial rights

Financial debts constitute a dilemma for many sectors, especially companies and institutions, including individuals, since ancient times, but in light of the modern era and the speed we see in developing laws and regulations and protecting the rights of parties in commercial and other operations that take place between parties using commercial papers, protecting their rights and entitlements from others because It has privacy and legal force, and in line with this development in the economic and legal aspects, our rational government resorted to implementing the enforcement system in commercial papers and put in place guarantees sufficient to recover the financial rights of others to be consistent with the requirements of development and to protect the rights of parties.

Copyrights

• The copyright system and its executive regulations include copyright protection, architectural designs, speeches, theatrical, musical, photographic, and cinematic works, in addition to radio and television works, maps, photo tapes, and computer programs. Copyright protection is not subject to any registration or renewal procedures.
• The system grants financial and moral rights to the author to print and publish his works and to make any amendments to them, delete them, or withdraw them from circulation and waive them based on his desire.

Trademarks and patents

• Dealing in trademarks is regulated by the Saudi trademark system and its executive regulations.
• Applications for trademark registration are submitted to the Trademark Office of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which applies the Nice Classifications in accordance with the International Agreement on Classifications of Goods and Services related to trademark registration.

• Currently, there are two systems for registering patents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• The patent system for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Which allows the registration of patents across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and the patent office for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries is located in the city of Riyadh.

• Under the Saudi patent system, patents are regulated by designs of integrated circuit diagrams, biodiversity, and the industrial models system, which applies the Paris Agreement for the protection of industrial property within the relevant Saudi systems.

• The protection document is submitted by the General Department of Patents at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, which grants full protection to any invention, planned design for integrated circuits, biodiversity, or industrial design within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This protection document grants its holder the right to commercial independence of the subject of protection. Protection requests are transmitted to the Public Administration in Arabic.

Litigation and intellectual property rights

Litigation procedures depend on the type of case in dispute and the court competent to hear it. This includes general Sharia courts, the Board of Grievances, and quasi-judicial committees. It is important that the lawsuit be filed before the competent authority, and this is not only to avoid the delay that occurs in obtaining a ruling, but also to reduce costs, as no provisions apply. Interest on the amounts awarded or attorney’s fees. The litigation procedures begin with the filing of the case in the competent court. After registration, the court determines the date of the first session to hear the case, and the defendant is notified either by the plaintiff directly or through the police or court clerk.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary Works, as amended in Paris, and also joined the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, there are three government agencies specialized in protecting intellectual property rights and enforcing these rights. These entities are the Ministry of Trade and Industry for trademarks, the Ministry of Culture and Information for copyright and related rights, and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology for patents.

Commercial arbitration and its advantages

• Commercial arbitration in the Kingdom is regulated by the Saudi Commercial Arbitration System. This system governs commercial arbitration agreements, the appointment of arbitrators, arbitration procedures, judicial supervision of arbitration, and implementation.

• Speedy settlement of disputes, flexibility and economy of expenses

• Not being bound by the application of a specific law or specific procedures, as it is possible to agree on the law that will be applied and on the basis of which the dispute will be decided.

• Dealing with the dispute in a way that ensures confidentiality, which protects both parties from the consequences of newspaper announcements, especially in commercial transactions where publicity is not required in the sessions.

Establishing contracts

Reviewing various contracts and agreements from a legal and regulatory perspective and ensuring that they do not violate the laws, regulations and decisions in force within the Kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, drafting their drafts in Arabic and English, following up on the procedures related to all contracts and clients’ work before the competent authorities and completing any missing procedures.

Legal Affairs

• Evaluating the validity of legal actions and developing legal administrative procedures for clients
• Evaluating risks related to commercial papers.
• Providing legal protection and managing contracts and meetings.
• Ensure that agreements and contracts are consistent with the system.
• Business flow chart for contracts and commercial papers.

Legal business

• Preparing lawsuit papers
• Preparing legal memorandums
• Preparing reconciliation papers
• Preparing legal reports
• Preparing business recommendations
• Preparing regulations

Executive legal programs

• Legal prevention program
• Legal maintenance program
• Legal structuring programme
• Product safety program
• Franchise program
• Brand acquisition program
• Buy-Sell Tags Program
• Clearance and collection program.
• First Commissioner Program
• The legitimate agent program

Work Team 

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Consultants
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Experts
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Commissioners
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Brand managers
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Lawyers
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Agents
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Business managers

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