


Masdar City has built its reputation around clean energy, technology and sustainable development. For business owners, though, there is another side to it. Masdar City Free Zone is now a sizeable Abu…

If you have been researching where to start a blockchain, Web3 or digital asset company in the UAE, you have probably come across RAK DAO Free Zone. There is one important update before you go any fur…

Abu Dhabi Global Market has become one of the main regulated centres for digital asset businesses in the UAE. Crypto exchanges, custodians, brokers, asset managers and stablecoin businesses can operat…

Dubai handles a huge volume of regional and international trade, so businesses constantly need somewhere to receive, store, manage and dispatch goods. That creates room for warehousing companies servi…

Dubai has a huge rental market, which creates steady demand for companies that can manage properties for landlords and investors. The numbers back that up. According to the Dubai Land Department’s ren…

Starting an investment company in Dubai becomes much clearer once you define exactly what the company will do. That first decision affects the licence, regulator, capital requirement and setup cost. T…

Renewable energy is becoming a much bigger part of the UAE economy. The country's updated Energy Strategy 2050 aims to triple the contribution of renewable energy by 2030 and increase installed clean-…

If you are setting up a UAE structure to hold family wealth, company shares, real estate or investments, three names come up often: trust, foundation and SPV. They are not interchangeable. A trust is…

Expanding into Dubai does not always mean starting an unrelated company from scratch. An overseas business can establish a UAE company owned by its existing parent, creating a Dubai subsidiary through…

Relocating an established company to the UAE does not always mean closing the original business, forming a brand-new UAE entity and transferring every asset and contract individually. In the right cir…

Starting a recruitment company in Dubai involves more than getting a standard professional trade licence. Recruitment, employment mediation and temporary staffing are regulated activities, which means…

The UAE’s payments sector has grown well beyond traditional card processing. Digital wallets, merchant payment platforms, payment aggregators, cross-border transfer services and fintech applications a…