How many accounting and legal firms are in Saudi Arabia?
Law firms, accounting, auditing and tax advisory.
7,636
active registrations list accounting & legal firms activities — 0.5% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
7,636 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list accounting & legal firms activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.5% of all classified registrations, the 61st-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
1,896 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +28.5% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (3,806), Jeddah (1,403) and Makkah (369) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: accounting and legal firms make up 1.8× the share they hold nationally.
89.1% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 20,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 7,636
- 0.5% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 1,896
- +28.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 89.1%
- 6,807 of 7,636
- Median company capital
- SAR 20k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where accounting and legal firms are registered
Column height: accounting and legal firms by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh3,8061.6×
- Jeddah1,4031.7×
- Makkah3691.0×
- Dammam3381.0×
- Khobar2971.8×
- Madinah2510.9×
- Taif1430.9×
- Buraydah1230.6×
- Abha700.9×
- Khamis Mushait620.5×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Accounting & legal firms: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Law firms and legal consultancy3,624Activity code 691010
- Patent registration812Activity code 691030
- Legal representation for medical device manufacturers770Activity code 691061
- Auditing316Activity code 692010
- Real estate escrow and fund custody299Activity code 691051
- Arbitration center services277Activity code 691062
- Financial consultancy (excluding securities)256Activity code 692041
- Notary services216Activity code 691020
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC6,60986.6%
- Sole proprietorship80610.6%
- SJSC911.2%
- JSC570.7%
- General partnership460.6%
- Foreign branch230.3%
- Limited partnership40.1%
Common questions
How many accounting and legal firms are there in Saudi Arabia?
7,636 active commercial registrations list accounting & legal firms activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most accounting and legal firms?
Riyadh, with 3,806 — 49.8% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,403.
Is the number of accounting and legal firms growing?
1,896 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +28.5% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in accounting & legal firms in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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