Principal entity routes for foreign investors, Saudi LLC, branch, or RHQ programme.
SAUDI ARABIA · COMPANY FORMATION
Incorporate where the operation will run.
Company Formation
LLC, branch, or Regional Headquarters. We choose the entity before we choose the office. Structure first. Banking, Saudization and capital fall into line.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Establish and structure a Saudi entity built to operate and scale.
LLC, branch, or Regional Headquarters. We choose the entity before we choose the office. Structure first. Banking, Saudization and capital fall into line. Alpha Oak coordinates the commercial, mobility and family considerations as one connected strategy, so the route works beyond approval or launch.
PROGRAMME SNAPSHOT
What entity choice actually sets.
Three numbers that follow from the first decision in a Saudi formation.
Standard Saudi corporate income tax rate, entity scope determines what it applies to.
RHQ programme corporate income tax exemption, for qualifying regional headquarters entities.
FULL DETAILS
Three entity routes.
We choose between them based on capital, sector, and operational ambition, not paperwork speed.
Saudi LLC
Domestic operating entity. Full activity scope, paid-up capital, Saudization plan, and ZATCA registration from day one.
Branch office
Extension of a foreign parent. Limited scope, no separate legal personality, useful for contracting and project work.
RHQ programme
Regional Headquarters incentive structure. 30-year corporate income tax exemption against a regional-mandate commitment.
FULL DETAILS
How a Saudi formation moves.
Four steps, sequenced. We do not skip ahead.
Entity choice
Capital plan, ownership split, sector activities, and banking and Saudization shape.
Constitutive filings
Articles, board resolutions, capital deposit and Ministry of Commerce filings.
Commercial Registration
CR issued after MISA licence, the entity becomes legally and commercially live.
Operational registrations
ZATCA, GOSI, HRSD, municipality, and any sector permits, every filing on one plan.
FULL DETAILS
We do not form companies. We form operations.
We do not form companies. We form operations.
The CR is a milestone, not a finish line. We stay through banking onboarding, the first hire, and the first invoice, the gap most foreign incorporations stall in.
Saudi Arabia · Company Formation