Practice area
Compliance & Internal Controls
Compliance and internal controls turn the obligations scattered across your regulators, contracts, and policies into one disciplined system the board can stand behind. Pactis designs that system so obligations are mapped, controls are owned, and your regulatory posture is defensible before scrutiny arrives, not after.
What we do
Pactis consolidates fragmented obligations into a single, defensible compliance programme calibrated to your sector and structure. We map your regulatory and contractual obligations across the relevant authorities, translate each into concrete internal controls with clear ownership, and design the policies, registers, and escalation paths that make accountability traceable from the front line to the board. The work spans Capital Market Authority disclosure and governance requirements, Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) obligations, National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) control expectations, ZATCA e-invoicing duties, and the licensing conditions of regulated sectors — woven into one coherent control framework rather than handled as disconnected fire drills. We pressure-test the design for gaps and overlaps, document it so it withstands an auditor's reading, and set the ongoing monitoring cadence that keeps the programme alive as obligations and the business evolve.
What is included
- Regulatory and contractual obligation mapping across the relevant authorities
- Internal-control design with defined ownership and escalation paths
- Compliance policies, registers, and delegation-of-authority documentation
- CMA disclosure, PDPL, NCA, and ZATCA e-invoicing readiness reviews
- Gap and overlap assessment with a prioritised remediation plan
- Ongoing multi-authority monitoring cadence and reporting framework
When you need this
- You face overlapping obligations from several regulators and no single view of them
- Your internal controls live in people's heads rather than in a documented framework
- A new licence, market activity, or data-processing line raises your regulatory exposure
- The board or an investor expects an audit-ready compliance programme
- A regulatory review or disclosure cycle is approaching and readiness is uncertain
Scope
PACTIS Legal advises and represents its clients directly on these matters within the Kingdom; where a matter reaches a foreign jurisdiction, it works with licensed local counsel under one accountable standard.
How we engage
Most suited to a governance-and-compliance project with defined deliverables, or to standing counsel on retainer where the programme needs continuous monitoring as obligations evolve.