Our Legal Department is the body specialized in protecting our legal interests within the Group. We do not wait for a dispute to arise before we intervene. We review our contracts and decisions before they become binding obligations, because the cheapest treatment of any legal risk is to prevent it before it occurs.
Legal
Through this department, we oversee all legal aspects and ensure compliance with local and international regulations. We protect the legal interests of our group, brands, and clients; manage all our contracts, including service agreements, partnerships, and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs); provide the necessary legal consultations; and take full responsibility for following up on cases and advocating on behalf of our group. We also work to ensure full compliance with the laws and regulations in force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
First: The scope of our work
Our scope includes reviewing our contracts and agreements, protecting our intellectual property, managing any dispute that arises from our work, and following our operating licenses. We deal with our external partners after clear legal, financial, and operational approval, not on the basis of verbal trust.
Second: Our responsibilities
Reviewing our contracts
No material contract is signed in our name before it passes through us, regardless of how urgent the other party may be.
Protecting our intellectual property
We follow our rights in everything we produce of content, brands, and tools, and we protect these rights from any unauthorized use.
Managing our disputes
We follow any dispute that arises from our work and litigate it on behalf of our Group, rather than leaving each department to manage its dispute on its own.
Following up our licenses
We ensure that every operating license we need remains in force, and we renew it before it expires, not after.
Third: How we work
Any request for legal review reaches us documented with its scope and its potential impact. We review it, then return it with our comments if any exist, then it is approved after those comments are addressed. No contract or obligation is treated as binding before this explicit approval from us.
Fourth: Our relations within the Group
For the Research and Knowledge Department, we review the rights in its sources, publication risks, and the contracts linked to its research tools, before any approval for publication and not after. We review the contracts of our other departments with partners and suppliers, and we are consulted on any decision with a legal effect before it is executed, not after it occurs.
Fifth: Our external relations
We deal with government entities within the framework of our licenses and our statutory disclosures, with our external advisors under confidentiality agreements and a predefined scope of work and deliverables, and with our partners and suppliers through formally approved contracts, not verbal orders.
Sixth: The limits of what we present on this page
We do not publish here the details of any dispute, pending or concluded, nor the texts of our contracts, because we treat them as information confidential by nature. To review our full statutory commitment to Saudi regulations, see the Governance and Sustainability pages.
