Corporate Compliance.

Compliance, governance and regulatory reporting under the UAE Commercial Companies Law, for onshore and free-zone entities. We handle it across multinational entity portfolios as well as standalone groups, keeping to the annual cycle each registry works to.

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About this area

We run the annual UAE compliance cycle for large multi-entity portfolios, onshore and across the free zones.

We coordinate the annual cycle through corporate services provider platforms, including Computershare/GEMS and the relevant free-zone portals, and deal direct with the registries for retained clients. Recent and ongoing engagements include annual compliance for entities under Equinix, Refinitiv (LSEG), Olam, Keller, Milliman, RPM, Rippling and Dentsu. The cycle covers AGM resolutions, financial statement filings, board resolutions, director changes, establishment card and licence renewals, and the routine housekeeping that keeps a UAE corporate footprint in order. None of it gets noticed until the year something is missed.

Alongside that annual work we handle the one-off matters: health check reviews across multi-entity portfolios, remediation of historic registry discrepancies, post-employment conflict of interest frameworks for regulated bodies, and Media Regulatory Office and No Objection Certificate support.

“None of it gets noticed until the year something is missed.”

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Compliance problems do not respect practice boundaries. When something cuts across tax, data protection, employment or sector regulation, we sort it out inside the firm and give the client one answer instead of four.

The work, in detail

Four matter types we handle in corporate compliance.

Annual compliance at scale.

Annual compliance across UAE mainland and free-zone entities: AGM resolutions, AFS filings, establishment card renewals, board resolutions, register maintenance and director change projects. We coordinate through GEMS for multinational portfolio clients and deal direct with the registries for retained clients.

Health checks and remediation.

One-off corporate secretarial health checks across multi-entity portfolios. We compare the commercial registry data, the statutory records and the corporate services provider's own data, set out where the three disagree, and clarify what has to be done to put the portfolio back on a defensible footing.

Governance and policy frameworks.

Board charters, committee mandates and management reporting lines, together with the policies that sit underneath them: code of conduct, gifts and hospitality, conflicts of interest including post-employment frameworks for regulated bodies, and third-party due diligence playbooks that follow UAE practice.

Sector and registry reporting.

UBO and ESR cycles, sector-specific filings, and dealings with the relevant UAE regulators. That includes Media Regulatory Office and NOC support, DDA and DAFZA registry matters, and coordination with corporate tax and FTA registration where a single requirement crosses more than one regime.

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