Your company, established.
One stop solution for foreign business owners in the Kingdom — formation, licensing, PRO and GRO representation, ongoing compliance, audit and tax. We hold the file and the government relationship. You run the business.
Six portals, four ministries, and nobody telling you where you stand
Most foreign investors do not fail in Saudi Arabia because the rules are hostile. They fail because nobody owns the file, and the first sign that something has stalled is a renewal that will not process.
Silence between updates
Weeks pass with no status. You cannot tell whether your application is progressing, waiting on a query, or sitting untouched.
The wrong activity code
Codes chosen carelessly at licensing constrain what you can invoice for years, and amending them costs more than getting them right did.
Documents rejected late
An apostille done in the wrong sequence or a translation from an uncertified office sends the whole file back to the start.
Compliance found too late
Wage protection, Saudization and renewals interlock. Missing one quietly blocks the others until a visa application fails.
Costs that move
Quotes given as a single confident number, then supplemented once work has started and you have no leverage left.
No single owner
Formation with one vendor, PRO with another, accounting with a third. Every gap between them is where your file stops.
One firm, every workstream
Everything between the decision to enter the Kingdom and your tenth year of trading in it — held in a single file, by a single named team.
Company formation
Trade name reservation, articles of association, notarisation, MOC filing and commercial registration for limited companies, branches and representative offices.
MISA licensing
Foreign investment licence applications, activity code selection, amendments and renewals. Getting the codes right first time avoids restructuring later.
PRO and GRO representation
The full government relationship held on your behalf, from a single employee to an enterprise workforce. Every portal, every renewal, every deadline.
Workforce compliance
Iqama issuance and renewal, work permits, exit and re-entry visas, occupation changes, Saudization ratio and Nitaqat band maintenance, and wage protection filing.
Audit and attestation
Annual audit and financial statement attestation, delivered through our SOCPA-registered audit partner. Managed end to end — preparation, engagement and filing.
Tax and Zakat
Registration, planning, periodic returns and annual filings with the tax authority. Structured in advance rather than reconciled after the fact.
Premium Residency
Eligibility assessment against the current categories, document preparation and application management for you and your dependants.
Industrial setup
Industrial licensing, land allocation, MODON and municipal approvals, and the operating permits a plant needs before it can run a shift.
Manpower and real estate
Executive search, workforce recruitment and block visa applications, plus advisory and representation on property purchase in the Kingdom.
From your first hire to your five hundredth
Saudi compliance does not scale gently. The obligations that a two-person office manages informally become, at fifty people, a full-time function with interlocking deadlines. We run that function for companies at every size.
A single point of contact handling the whole file. Renewals tracked, nothing delegated back to you.
Saudization becomes binding. Ratio monitored continuously, hiring advised before a band is lost.
Dedicated GRO capacity, monthly compliance reporting, and quota planning ahead of recruitment.
Named team, escalation path, and an audit and tax calendar mapped to your financial year.
What we handle, on time, every time
Each of these has its own cycle and its own consequence for being missed. Together they are the reason foreign-owned companies stall.
Audit and attestation are delivered through our SOCPA-registered audit partner, whose licence carries the opinion. We manage the engagement end to end — preparation, documentation, liaison and filing — so the deadline is never yours to chase. You deal with us throughout.
The file, not a status email
Every engagement produces the same set of live records. These are the screens we work from — and from launch of the client portal, the screens you will see too.
Licence and registration record
Every licence, registration and permit your entity holds, with its issuing authority, its reference and the date it must be renewed. One record, kept current, in both languages.
When an inspector, a bank or a counterparty asks for proof of standing, it takes a minute to produce rather than a week of searching inboxes.
- Legal name
- Nordvik Marine Arabia LLC
- Commercial registration
- 7 0 5 · · · · · · ·
- Investment licence
- M I S A · · · · · ·
- Entity type
- Limited liability company
- Registered region
- Makkah Region
- Standing
- Active
Renewal calendar
Saudi compliance is not difficult, it is relentless. Registrations, licences, memberships and residency permits each renew on their own cycle, and a lapse in one blocks the rest.
We track every date on your behalf and act before it becomes urgent. You are told what is coming, not what was missed.
Workforce and Saudization
Every employee, their permit status, their residency expiry, and where the entity sits against its Saudization requirement — visible before it becomes a problem rather than after a visa is refused.
If a resignation is about to drop you out of the green range, you hear it that week.
The client portal
Every service on this page is delivered through one platform of our own. Sign in and see the live state of your entity — the file, the renewals, the workforce, the compliance calendar and every document we hold for you. One login instead of six government portals and an inbox.
What it will do
- Live file status for every open matter, with the stage, the owner and what it is waiting on.
- A document vault holding every licence, registration, contract and attestation, downloadable at any hour.
- Renewal calendar with alerts issued well before the deadline, not at it.
- Employee register showing permit and residency status for every person on your sponsorship.
- Digital approvals, so a signature does not require a courier or a flight.
- Full audit trail — who did what, when, on both sides.
The portal is in development. Clients onboarded before launch will be migrated across at no cost.
Ask about early accessEvery obligation has an owner
Saudi compliance obligations interlock. We treat each one as a deliverable with a named output, so nothing depends on someone remembering it.
| Obligation | What it requires | Output we produce |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial registrationالسجل التجاري | Annual renewal with the Ministry of Commerce, and amendment on any change to capital, activity or management. | Current CR certificate |
| Investment licenceترخيص الاستثمار | Annual renewal with MISA and amendment whenever activities or shareholding change. | Renewed licence |
| Wage protectionحماية الأجور | Monthly verification that salaries were paid correctly and on time, filed through the payroll platform. | Monthly compliance file |
| Saudizationالسعودة | Maintaining the Saudi employment ratio required for your size class and activity, measured continuously. | Band position report |
| Residency and permitsالإقامات ورخص العمل | Issuance and renewal of work permits and residency permits for every expatriate employee and dependant. | Valid permit register |
| Zakat and taxالزكاة والضريبة | Registration, periodic returns and annual filings with the tax authority. | Filed returns |
Three ways to own a business in the Kingdom
The structure chosen on day one determines your capital requirement, your renewal burden and whether you will ever need a partner's signature. It is expensive to change later.
Saudi partner structure
A joint venture with a Saudi shareholder. Still correct for activities requiring local participation, or where a connected partner adds real commercial value.
- Shareholding split set by agreement
- Suits restricted activity categories
- Shareholders' agreement drafted and notarised
Full foreign ownership
A MISA foreign investment licence permitting complete foreign ownership, available across most commercial, professional and industrial activities.
- No Saudi shareholder required
- Capital threshold varies sharply by activity
- Annual licence renewal
- Saudization applies from the first hire
Premium Residency route
Premium Residency holders own and operate directly as individuals. No sponsor, no investment licence for most activities, and a materially lighter compliance load.
- Direct individual ownership
- No local partner or sponsor
- Property ownership rights included
How a setup actually runs
Five stages. You will know which one you are in at any moment, and what is blocking the next.
Structure and scoping
We map your intended activity to the correct codes, confirm the capital requirement and tell you which ownership route you belong on. If your plan does not work in its current form, you hear it here rather than three months in.
Document chain
Parent company documents apostilled and legalised, certified translation, and a power of attorney so nothing waits on your travel schedule.
Investment licence
Application submitted, tracked and followed through to issuance. We answer reviewer queries directly rather than relaying them to you.
Registration and portals
Articles notarised, commercial registration issued, national address registered, Chamber membership activated, and the labour, residency and payroll portals opened in parallel.
Operational handover
Bank account introduction, general manager visa, staff visa applications, and a written compliance calendar showing every renewal date for the coming year.
Why now
The reforms that opened the Kingdom to full foreign ownership also created a queue. Sector allocations, industrial land and headquarters incentives go to those who file properly and early.
Figures reflect published Vision 2030 programme targets and prevailing incentive schemes. Incentive eligibility is conditional and assessed per applicant.
Asked before every engagement
How long does a foreign company setup take?
Can a foreigner own one hundred percent of a Saudi company?
Do I need to fly to Saudi Arabia?
What happens after the company is registered?
How do you charge?
Do you handle the work yourselves?
When will the client portal be available?
Start with a conversation, not a contract
Tell us what you intend to do in the Kingdom. We will tell you what it takes, what it costs and whether we are the right firm for it. If we are not, we will say so.
- Office
- 505 Aqsa Business Park
Ar Rehab District, Jeddah - Coverage
- Kingdom-wide
- Phone and WhatsApp
- +966 57 091 5268
- hello@latitude-sa.com
- Legal entity
- Sawa Al Rukub Group Business Services
CR 7042631817 - Response time
- Within one business day
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