Sattam bin Khalid Law Firm handles commercial disputes, company and contract disputes, bankruptcy, commercial paper and the enforcement of obligations before the commercial courts. Our office is in Jeddah and we appear before commercial courts across the Kingdom.
The firm has handled more than 200 cases before the Commercial Court.
In the claims specified by the Regulation, the claimant must give the defendant written notice to perform the right claimed at least fifteen days before filing (Article 19 of the Commercial Courts Law).[1]
The Regulation specifies the claims that must go to conciliation and mediation first; those procedures may not exceed thirty days from their start unless the parties agree a longer period. Conciliation requests are filed online through the Taradhi platform.[1][2]
The claim is filed as a statement of claim through Najiz. The Law allows any step in a commercial case to be electronic, including remote pleading and the exchange of memoranda (Article 7).[3][1]
The period to appeal a commercial judgment is thirty days from the date set for delivering the copy of the judgment, and ten days for judgments on jurisdiction and in urgent claims (Article 79).[1]
Disputes between merchants arising from their commercial business, claims against a merchant in commercial contract disputes above the set value threshold, disputes between partners in partnership contracts, and claims arising under the companies, bankruptcy, intellectual property and other commercial laws (Article 16).[1]
Unless a special provision applies, claims within the commercial court's jurisdiction are not heard more than five years after the right arose, unless the defendant acknowledges the right or the claimant gives an excuse the court accepts (Article 24).[1]
The Commercial Courts Law leaves it to its Implementing Regulation to specify which claims must be filed by a lawyer and in which a lawyer must plead.
Pleading on behalf of others before the courts is reserved to lawyers on the roll of practising lawyers, with specified exceptions (Article 18 of the Code of Law Practice).[1][4]
A percentage of the claim: 5% below SAR 100,000, 4% from SAR 100,000 to under SAR 500,000, 3% from SAR 500,000 to under SAR 1 million, and 2% at SAR 1 million and above, capped at SAR 1 million.
Non-payment does not prevent the claim from being registered and decided. The cost of an appeal application is SAR 5,000 and of a cassation application SAR 7,000.[5][6]
Seven procedures: preventive settlement, financial reorganisation, liquidation, the three equivalents for small debtors, and administrative liquidation (Article 2 of the Bankruptcy Law).[7]
According to the Minister of Justice, a closed commercial case took an average of two hearings in 2025.
This is a published overall average; each case differs with the nature of the dispute and its documents.[8]
A lawyer's fees and how they are paid are set by agreement between lawyer and client (Article 26 of the Code of Law Practice); they vary with the type of case and the work involved.
Contact us with your situation for an estimate that fits it.[4]
More than 97,600 commercial judgments were issued during 2025, a 32% increase compared with 2024.
Minister of Justice Walid Al-Samaani (Al-Eqtisadiah interview, English report by Arab News) · 2025Courts received 77,000 commercial cases in 2025.
Ministry of Justice (data reported by Saudi Gazette) · 2025More than 1.6 million enforcement requests, with a value exceeding SAR 165 billion, were registered in 2025.
Minister of Justice Walid Al-Samaani (Al-Eqtisadiah interview, English report by Arab News) · 2025The average number of hearings per closed commercial case was only two.
Minister of Justice Walid Al-Samaani (Al-Eqtisadiah interview, English report by Arab News) · 2025This page is general information about Saudi law, not legal advice, and makes no promise of any outcome. Laws and regulations change; consult a lawyer before you act.
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