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Licensing, tenement & permitting advisory

Applications, renewals, cadastre searches and the compliance calendar that keeps a licence alive — in the three jurisdictions we work in every day.

ApplicationsRenewalsCadastre searchesCompliance calendar
Why it matters

Licences are lost to calendars, not to geology.

The most expensive failures we see are administrative. A renewal window missed, an annual report filed late, an expenditure commitment not evidenced — and ground that took years to assemble reverts and is applied for by somebody else within the week.

We hold licences in Tanzania, Sudan and Gambia and run the same compliance calendar on our own tenements that we run on our clients'. The obligations are tracked in Najd Office, our own system, with each deadline counted down and each filing evidenced.

This service is administrative and it is priced that way. It is not legal advice, and where a matter needs a lawyer we will say so rather than improvise.

New applications and cadastre searches
Renewals tracked and filed on time
Annual returns and expenditure evidence
Transfers, surrenders and boundary amendments
Ground checked against the cadastre before an application is drafted
Ground checked against the cadastre before an application is drafted
Services

What we handle.

Everything below is administered against a written calendar with named responsibility for each item. Nothing depends on somebody remembering.

Cadastre searchWhat is held, by whom, until when, and what is genuinely open — checked at the registry rather than from a third-party map.
ApplicationsPrepared, submitted and followed up, with the status reported to you rather than discovered by you.
RenewalsTracked from the day the licence is granted, with the work needed to support the renewal scheduled backwards from the deadline.
Annual returnsPrepared and filed, with expenditure evidenced in the form the authority actually accepts.
Transfers and surrendersDocumentation and process for moving a tenement between entities or handing ground back cleanly.
Compliance dashboardEvery obligation across every licence on one screen, in Najd Office, with a countdown against each.
Engagement

Audit, then administer.

The audit is the part clients try to skip. It is also the part that finds the renewal nobody had diarised.

01

Audit

Every licence you hold, its status, its obligations and its next three deadlines, verified at the registry.

02

Calendar

Obligations loaded into a tracked calendar with owners and lead times, not a spreadsheet nobody opens.

03

Administer

Filings prepared and submitted on schedule, with evidence retained against each one.

04

Report

A monthly position: what was filed, what is due, and what needs a decision from you.

Terms

The commercial detail.

Stated here so that the first conversation can be about the work rather than about how we charge for it.

ItemDetail
JurisdictionsTanzania, Sudan, Gambia
BasisAnnual retainer per portfolio, or fixed fee per application
IncludedCadastre searches, filing preparation, submission, follow-up and monthly reporting
Not includedGovernment fees and duties, which are paid at cost and evidenced
TrackingNajd Office compliance module, with your own read access if you want it
Legal adviceNot provided. We work alongside your counsel and say so when a matter needs them
Questions

Asked often enough.

Can you take over a portfolio that is already behind?

Yes, and it is the most common way this engagement starts. The audit establishes what is recoverable and what is not, in writing, before we take responsibility for anything.

Do you guarantee an application will be granted?

No, and be careful of anyone who does. We guarantee that the application is complete, correctly prepared and filed within the window, which is the part within anyone's control.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is tenement administration. Where a question turns on interpretation of the law we will tell you to instruct counsel, and we will work with them.

Can we see the calendar ourselves?

Yes. Clients on a retainer get read access to the compliance module in Najd Office, so the position is visible without asking us for it.

Next step

Find out where you stand.

Send a list of the licences you hold. The audit comes back with the real status of each, the next three obligations against it, and anything already overdue.

What we need from you
Licence numbers and holding entity
Country and district
Grant and expiry dates if known
Who currently handles filings