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Business setup in JAFZA

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Farahat & Co. offers world class professional Business Management Consultancy to investors in the private, Government, Non-Government and academic sectors. Since being based and established in Dubai from 1985, our Business Registration Division offers a spectrum of services, covering all aspects of doing business in the UAE and the GCC countries.

With a central presence in Dubai, we are able to focus on investments in the offshore business activity, and guide investors to the lucrative sectors in the UAE, such as Real Estate and Offshore Banking.

The UAE offers incoming business all the advantages of a highly developed economy, and with opportunities booming in the world of business today, International Companies seeking to establish a business in Dubai, have a host of alternatives.

Our commitment at Farahat & Co. is to provide our clients with the best possible service. As a professional firm, we combine an extreme technical expertise with a friendly personal service, thus helping our clients to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by transition.


Setting up business in Dubai City

Previously, each emirate followed its own procedures governing the operations of foreign business interests. Since 1984, steps have been taken to introduce a codified companies’ law which is applicable throughout the UAE. Federal Law No. 8 of 1984, as amended by Federal Law No. 13 of 1988 - the "Commercial Companies Law" - and its by-laws have been issued and in basic terms the provisions of the Law are as follows:

Unless you open your business in Dubai within one of the free trade zones, where 100% foreign ownership is permitted, the Federal Law stipulates a total local equity of not less than 51% in any commercial company and defines seven categories of business organisations which can be established in the UAE. It categorises and defines the requirements in terms of shareholders, directors, minimum capital levels and incorporation procedures. It further lays down provisions governing conversion, merger and dissolution of companies.