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A Free Trade Zone is a specific territory with a special legal status and favorable economic conditions for the business operation. Company registration in Free Trade Zone UAE implies a registration of fully-fledged residential companies eligible for doing business on the UAE territory, which have visas and a 100% foreign ownership without any limitation on shareholders’ citizenships and residency...

Nowadays, the United Arab Emirates is one of the most popular and attractive jurisdictions for setting up an offshore company. The advantages of the offshore company registration in Dubai, UAE rests on the grounds of the effective assets protection, risk management, financial confidentiality, no red tape, low registration cost, foreign investments and secure property rights...

The laws of most countries contain different rules, applicable to the procedure of companies’ liquidation – either voluntary or compulsory. There are plenty of examples and cases when business owners simply forget or leave their companies which are no longer required, thus wanting to save time and money on the formalities related to the official liquidation / closure of such company in Dubai, UAE...

There areseveral different layers of the applicable corporate law and regulations for companies registered in UAE, either in Dubai or any other Emirates. The corporate law and regulations in Dubai and other Emirates are enacted at the federal level, at the level of various Emirates as well as on the level of different Free Trade Zones...

Offshore zones are usually called the countries / territories where there is the possibility to register companies with a special taxation regime. Such countries are, for example, the British Virgin Islands, Belize, Panama and others...