COMPANY REGISTRATION IN UAE

Practical advice is available, to clients wishing to establish business in UAE, on the selection of an appropriate UAE location taking into account management objectives, market conditions, taxation and other factors that affect their success.

The UAE business environment can be very profitable and even predictable if care is taken to understand the influences working on an individual market at any one time. Keeping an ear to the ground and maintaining a steady physical presence is invaluable.

Visiting business people are advised to consult the many sources of commercial intelligence, including embassy lists, the chambers of commerce, official gazettes and tender lists. UAE national businessmen are the best source of information, and the ideal man in a business development role will usually be the one with excellent contacts in the local business community. Given the right high-level contacts it is possible to hear of projects ahead of the rest and long before tender documents can be officially purchased. The UAE is one of the most open and freely competitive markets in the world and although the authorities want to do business on the basis of quality and value for money, much still depends on this inside knowledge.

Personalities play a significant role in contract award. The knowledge, accessibility and reputation of one’s local associate is often a vital factor in determining the outcome of fierce bidding between large numbers of global companies.