Practice area
Corporate Governance & Structuring
Corporate governance and structuring is the architecture beneath every consequential decision your board makes — how authority is allocated, how accountability is traced, and how your group is organised. Pactis builds that architecture as a discipline, so your structure holds up under scrutiny rather than improvised under pressure.
What we do
Pactis works with boards, founders, and executive leadership to design a coherent governance framework end to end: board and committee charters that define mandate and reserved matters, delegation-of-authority frameworks that draw clean lines between board, management, and shareholders, and the internal policies that give those lines practical force. We structure and restructure groups — holding and subsidiary arrangements, intra-group relationships, and shareholder agreements — so ownership, control, and liability sit where they are intended to. Throughout, we align the framework with the Companies Law and applicable disclosure obligations, and we draft governance instruments with the same dispute-resilience we bring to commercial contracts: clear language, anticipated edge cases, and decision rights that remain defensible if they are ever tested. The responsible principal leads this work personally and coordinates licensed Saudi or international counsel where a matter calls for it.
What is included
- Board and committee charters and reserved-matters schedules
- Delegation-of-authority frameworks and approval matrices
- Internal governance policies and codes of conduct
- Shareholder agreements and group ownership structuring
- Holding-company and subsidiary restructuring
- Companies Law alignment and disclosure-obligation review
When you need this
- Your board lacks clear charters, reserved matters, or delegation lines
- You are forming, restructuring, or consolidating a group of companies
- A new shareholder or investor is entering your ownership structure
- You are preparing for institutional investment, a transaction, or regulatory scrutiny
- Authority and accountability between board and management have become unclear
Scope
PACTIS Legal advises and represents its clients directly on these matters within the Kingdom; where a matter reaches a foreign jurisdiction, it works with licensed local counsel under one accountable standard.
How we engage
This area suits standing counsel on retainer for boards that need a continuous governance presence, a defined strategic mandate for a specific restructuring, or a governance-and-compliance project with agreed deliverables.
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