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Who We Are

Sofana Rabea Dahlan Law Firm is a focused legal practice advising investors, entrepreneurs, SMEs, and established businesses on commercial and regulatory matters in Saudi Arabia.

The Firm supports clients across key stages of business activity, including market entry, intellectual property protection, contractual arrangements, transactions, and dispute resolution. Our work is informed by a strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and the practical realities of operating in regulated environments.

Clients engage the Firm on matters that carry strategic importance or long-term commercial impact. In these matters, our role goes beyond technical legal execution to include assessing legal risk, structuring positions appropriately, and supporting the protection of rights and interests over time.

Our Approach

We approach legal matters with structure and continuity.

Each engagement begins with a clear understanding of the client’s objectives, operating environment, and legal exposure. Advice is developed with those factors in mind, ensuring that legal positions are practical, coherent, and capable of being implemented over time.

The Firm operates within a formal association with AMERELLER, an international law firm with offices across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Through this association, Sofana Rabea Dahlan Law Firm serves as AMERELLER’s Saudi office, supporting matters that require coordinated Saudi and international legal input.

This structure allows clients to receive aligned local and international advice on cross-border investment, transactions, and disputes through a single, integrated framework.

Our Focus

Our work is concentrated on legal issues that arise at critical points in a business lifecycle, where decisions taken early or under pressure can have lasting legal and commercial consequences.

Rather than operating across a broad range of unrelated practice areas, we focus on defined categories of legal matters where regulatory context, structure, and positioning are central.

Establishment & Market Positioning

Legal issues connected to entering the Saudi market, setting up operations, and positioning a business or investment within applicable regulatory frameworks. These matters often involve questions of structure, eligibility, and readiness to operate within regulated sectors.

Ownership, Control & IP Rights

Legal issues relating to the ownership, use, and protection of intellectual property and other commercial rights. These matters are often central to brand value, commercial leverage, and long-term continuity.

Commercial Structures & Relationships

Legal issues arising from how businesses organise and document their commercial relationships, including long-term arrangements, strategic collaborations, and legally complex business models operating across regulated environments.

Dispute Strategy & Resolution

Legal issues arising once a commercial relationship or transaction becomes contentious. These matters involve assessing legal positions, exposure, and available mechanisms for resolving disputes through arbitration or mediation.

Our Services

We provide focused legal services tailored to clients operating in or entering the Saudi market, particularly in matters involving investment, intellectual property, contracts, and dispute resolution.

Market Entry & Investment
Facilitation

Intellectual Property
Registration & Protection

We advise investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses on entering and operating in Saudi Arabia through sound legal structuring and regulatory alignment.

Our services include entity structuring, licensing pathways, investment-related compliance, shareholder arrangements, and governance frameworks, supporting clients from initial entry through ongoing operations.

Intellectual property is a central component of the Firm's practice.

We advise on trademark and copyright registration, IP portfolio management, licensing and assignments, enforcement actions, and IP-related disputes. Our work supports businesses and rights-holders in protecting their brands, innovations, and creative assets, and in enforcing rights where infringement arises.

Legal Advisory

We provide ongoing legal advisory to entrepreneurs, SMEs, and businesses seeking consistent, senior-level legal input.

This includes advisory on corporate governance, regulatory exposure, commercial strategy, contractual frameworks, and dispute preparedness. Many clients engage the firm as a long-term legal advisor rather than on a purely transactional basis.

Arbitration & Mediation

We represent and advise clients in arbitration and mediation proceedings, both domestic and international.

Our approach prioritises early risk assessment, strategic positioning, and outcome-focused resolution. Where possible, we support negotiated settlements; where necessary, we manage proceedings with discipline and precision.

Commercial Contracts & Contract Review

We draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts with a strong emphasis on clarity, risk allocation, and enforceability.

Our contract work supports day-to-day operations, strategic partnerships, and investment transactions, and includes advisory on breach, termination, and contractual remedies.

Mergers & Acquisitions

We advise investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic transactions.

Our work includes transaction structuring, legal due diligence, negotiation of transaction documents, and support through signing and completion. We assist clients in managing regulatory considerations, contractual risk, and transaction execution within complex commercial environments.