Safeguard your legacy & structure your future

Family Business & Succession Planning

We help Saudi family businesses build legal frameworks for succession, governance, and multi-generational growth, aligned with modern business realities and cultural traditions

Generational transition is the most critical legal moment in a family business

Today, family-owned companies drive over 60% of Saudi Arabia’s private sector GDP. But many remain unstructured, informally governed, and vulnerable to disputes, ownership fragmentation, and regulatory penalties. As Vision 2030 pushes businesses to scale, modernize, and enter public markets, clear legal frameworks are no longer optional.
We help you preserve what was built, while preparing for what’s next.

Why Ittika for family business law?

We understand that family business law is part legal, part emotional, all strategic

Culturally aware legal structuring

We approach every engagement with respect for tradition, privacy, and internal family dynamics.

Deep local experience

We’ve helped Saudi families restructure everything from real estate groups to multibillion-riyal conglomerates.

Sharia & regulatory compliance

We balance Islamic inheritance obligations with modern business law, creating compliant and functional outcomes.

Succession-neutral guidance

We act as your trusted legal neutral, aligning everyone on shared goals, not generational tension.

Our family business legal services

Succession Planning & Share Transfer Structuring

Legal plans for smooth leadership transitions, share redistribution, exit protocols, and liquidity events.

Family Governance Frameworks

Drafting family charters, internal bylaws, and decision-making mechanisms that reduce emotional and legal conflict.

Holding Company Design & Optimization

Consolidation of assets and subsidiaries into efficient legal structures with clear ownership tiers.

Dispute Mitigation & Shareholder Agreements

Conflict resolution clauses, voting rights, family dispute arbitration clauses, and minority protections.

IPO or Private Investment Readiness

Legal preparation for external financing, strategic divestment, or eventual public offering

Wealth Preservation & Estate Planning

Integration with Islamic inheritance principles, trusts, gifting structures, and tax optimization (where applicable).

FAQs on Saudi governance & compliance

From share transfers to succession planning, this section brings clarity to the issues family enterprises most often raise about navigating Saudi business law.

If properly structured, no. We draft share transfer agreements that comply with corporate and inheritance laws.

By drafting legally binding shareholder agreements, governance policies, and family constitutions with exit and dispute clauses.

Yes. We help you consolidate operations under one legal structure while protecting ownership integrity.

We work within Islamic principles to create compliant gifting, trust, and allocation structures that still meet business goals.

Let’s start with clarity

Let’s secure your legacy; on paper and in reality

Talk to us about building the legal structure your family business deserves, before the next generation takes the lead.

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