Corporate Services
UAE company formation
Incorporation handled end to end, with the structure chosen for how the business will actually trade rather than for the licence fee.
What it is
Formation looks like an administrative exercise and is usually treated as one, which is why so many structures are revisited within two years. Where customers are, where suppliers invoice from, where work is performed and where people sit all bear on the right answer.
Who it applies to
Who this is for.
- International businesses establishing a UAE presence
- Founders incorporating a first entity
- Groups adding a UAE entity to an existing structure
- Businesses whose current structure no longer fits how they trade
What we do
The work itself.
Establish the intended trade, then set out realistic structural options
Recommend mainland or free zone on the basis of that trade, with reasoning
Manage incorporation, licensing and supporting documentation
Support banking, registrations and the steps needed before trading
Set up the ongoing corporate obligations calendar
What you provide
What we will need from you.
Gathering these before the first conversation shortens everything that follows.
- Passport and identification for shareholders and signatories
- Intended activities and target customers
- Parent company documents, for a subsidiary
- Proposed shareholding structure
Timeline
Timelines vary by authority and activity. We give an indicative schedule at the structuring stage and confirm it once the authority is selected.
Rates, thresholds and filing dates change. We confirm the current position for your entity in writing rather than publishing figures that may date.
Questions
What people ask.
Neither, in the abstract. It depends on who your customers are, where your suppliers invoice from and where the work is performed. That is the first conversation, not the last.
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Next step
UAE company formation, handled properly.
Tell us where you are with it. If the answer is that you have nothing to do, that is what you will hear.
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What follows
- A person in the relevant practice reads it, not a routing queue.
- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
- Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 18:00 GST