Company formation in Saudi Arabia

Company formation in Saudi Arabia

Score Plus for Entrepreneurship and Support is your ideal partner for completing all your company formation procedures in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With a distinguished team boasting over twenty years of experience in company formation and transaction processing in the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, we will handle your company formation process in the Kingdom from start to finish. This ensures the correct and swift completion of the incorporation procedures, helping you launch your business sooner than you expect.

We will also complete all the necessary legal procedures for establishing and officially registering your company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from obtaining the required licenses to opening company bank accounts.

Company Formation within the General Authority for Investment

Establishing companies of all types and nationalities within the Ministry of Investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MISA) is one of the most important services offered by Business Link for Entrepreneurship Support. We provide services for establishing new companies, branches, or representative offices, and we handle all legal aspects for these companies, from incorporation procedures and all related legal matters, including articles of incorporation, contract notarization, and obtaining investment licenses, commercial registrations, and all other matters related to company formation of all types.

We also offer legal assistance to individuals, whether Egyptian or foreign, and to commercial entities to ensure the legality of their business activities.

Types of licenses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Service license

The service license includes the following activities: contracting, senior management consulting, information technology, tourism, training, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, education, advertising, sea and air freight services, exhibition organization, catering services, financial services, aviation and handling services, etc.

Commercial license

Given the importance of business in the Kingdom and the Kingdom’s efforts to facilitate the entry of foreign establishments to engage in wholesale and retail trade in the Saudi market, subject to specific regulations and conditions, several options have been offered to ambitious foreign companies:

  • Commercial license with a Saudi partner
  • 100% foreign commercial license

Consulting license for engineering offices

An engineering consultancy office is an office specializing in building architecture, urban planning, and construction, including electrical power systems, building plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and water and sewage engineering. It handles the design, supervision, and management of various engineering projects. Therefore, opening an engineering office that deals with all aspects of building and architectural engineering is subject to a set of requirements, as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is meticulous in enforcing its laws. This service is offered to foreign companies wishing to provide engineering consultancy services within the Kingdom with 100% ownership.

ترخيص أنشطة النقل

This service is offered to international companies wishing to provide public transportation services in the Kingdom. The Kingdom offers several areas for investment in public transportation services, including:

  • Issuance of public bus transportation licenses within cities.
  • Issuance of public metro transportation licenses within cities.
  • Issuance of other licenses in land transportation.

Entrepreneurial licenses

The service is provided to entrepreneurs who wish to establish emerging technology, innovative, or distinguished companies that are capable of expansion and growth in order to offer a better and different product or service in the Saudi market and have support entities approved by the Ministry.

Real Estate Licensing

These are the activities that include investments in the field of real estate development, and the cost of the project shall not be less than 30,000,000 thirty million Saudi Riyals for land and construction outside the boundaries of the cities of Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Madinah Al-Munawwarah.

Scientific and Technical Office License

This service is offered to foreign companies that have a Saudi agent or authorized distributor in the Kingdom, and wish to open an office that provides scientific and technical services to the agents, distributors and consumers of the company’s products.

License for recruitment agencies and domestic worker services rental

The service is provided to foreign establishments that wish to engage in domestic worker recruitment services and temporary employment agencies for domestic services in the Kingdom.

Consulting license for economic and technical liaison offices

The service is provided to the economic and technical offices of countries wishing to obtain a license.

Industrial licensing

This service is provided for all industrial licenses, such as heavy and light industries, and manufacturing industries.

Licensing of printing and publishing activities

The service is provided to establishments that wish to engage in specific activities in the field of printing, publishing, libraries, and distribution.

Professional license with a Saudi partner

This service is offered to foreign companies that wish to conduct professional activities in the Kingdom with a Saudi partner.

Temporary certificate for submitting bids for government projects

Establishments that wish to be qualified by the Ministry of Investment to apply for government project tenders can apply for a temporary certificate that enables them to submit bids for government projects in accordance with Cabinet Resolution No. 405 issued on 10/22/1435 AH.

Issuing a temporary license to execute a single governmental/semi-governmental contract

This service is provided to foreign companies that are relied upon to win government or semi-government projects and do not hold a foreign investment license in the activity and field of the contract, as they can apply to obtain a temporary license to implement the government/semi-government contract that ends with the end of the contract.

Agricultural license

This service is offered to establishments that wish to engage in agricultural activities.

Mining license

This service is offered to establishments that wish to engage in mining activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.