Mainland Company Formation Dubai 2026: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide from Trade Name and Ejari to Licence, Visas, Bank and Tax

Mainland company formation in the emirate of Dubai means licensing a business with the Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) so it can trade anywhere in the UAE: you choose an activity and legal form, reserve a trade name, obtain DET’s initial approval, register premises on Ejari, sign an attested memorandum of association, collect any external approvals and pay for the licence, then register the mainland company with Dubai Chambers, open the immigration and labour files, sponsor visas, open a bank account and register for tax. Most of the licensing runs online through Invest in Dubai. What takes time is everything around it: premises, notarisation, approvals for regulated activities and the bank.

This mainland company formation Dubai guide is the pillar of our mainland series. It covers the end-to-end process to set up a mainland company in Dubai, the order of the steps, the decisions that shape your cost and your hiring later, the published clocks and fees, and the mistakes that cost founders months. Every step has a detailed guide of its own; here we summarise each in a few lines and link it, so you can see the whole route on one page and go deep only where your file needs it.

If you are still deciding whether to set up on the mainland at all, start with our free zone vs mainland comparison. If you already know a mainland company is right and want someone to run the whole chain, our company formation support team does it for you.

Mainland company formation Dubai at a glance: the master step table

The table is the core of this guide. It shows each step of mainland company registration in Dubai in the order the systems accept it, who decides, what the official clock or fee is where one is published, and the guide that covers the step in full. Steps 1 to 8 produce the licence; steps 9 to 13 turn the licence into a mainland company that can employ, bank and file tax.

Mainland company formation Dubai: how MIRDXB PRO helps

Many founders arrive with a single “package price” for mainland company formation, Dubai licence included, and cannot see what the government is charging or what happens after the licence. We map the full route for your activity first, show each government fee as its own line, quote our fee in writing, then run the steps with DET, the Dubai Land Department, the notary, Dubai Chambers, GDRFA, MOHRE and ICP. We are an Amer and Tasheel partner in Al Barsha 1, Dubai, and the post-licence steps, where many set-ups stall, are our daily work.

What we do when you set up a mainland company in Dubai

• Check the activity and form before you pay anything. We match your business to DET’s activity list, flag activities that need an outside approval or carry ownership conditions, and suggest the legal form that fits your owners and plans.
• Handle the DET file. Trade name reservation, initial approval, memorandum of association drafting with your lawyer or on the standard form, attestation, and licence issue on Invest in Dubai.
• Get the premises right. We check that the space you are about to lease can carry your activity and your hiring plan, and register the Ejari.
• Open the employer files. Dubai Chambers membership, the GDRFA immigration establishment card, the MOHRE establishment card and e-signature, and the first quota.
• Process the first visas. Partner or investor residence for the owners, then employees: work permits, entry permits or status changes, medicals, Emirates ID, residence and MOHRE contracts.
• Prepare the post-licence compliance. We hand over a dated calendar for corporate tax registration, beneficial owner filing, Chamber and licence renewal, and the documents your bank will ask for.

How our mainland company registration in Dubai works

1. Message us on WhatsApp with your activity, the owners (individuals or companies, nationalities, in or outside the UAE), and how many people you plan to hire in the first year.
2. We send a written plan: the steps in order, the documents each owner must provide, the government fees we can publish, the costs we cannot (rent, external approvals), a realistic timeline and our fee.
3. You approve, and we start the DET file while you choose premises. Owners abroad can sign a power of attorney so we can act for them where the step allows.
4. We finish the chain: licence, Chamber, establishment cards, labour file, visas, then the tax and beneficial owner filings are diarised and done.

What it costs

Government fees are passed on at cost, on the authority’s own receipt: DET’s licence voucher, Ejari, notary, Dubai Chambers, GDRFA, MOHRE and visa fees. Our own fee for a Dubai mainland company setup depends on the legal form, the number of owners, whether an external approval is involved and how many visas you need at the start, and it is always quoted in writing before we begin. You can see how we price our work on our fees page. For the government side of a mainland set-up line by line, with worked totals for typical company profiles, see our mainland business setup cost guide.

Why founders use us for a mainland company

• We publish our sources. Every rule and fee in this guide links to the official page it came from, and where official pages are silent or disagree, we say so.
• We cover the whole chain, not only the licence. DET, Dubai Chambers, GDRFA, MOHRE and ICP files are handled by the same team, so the mainland company’s licence, establishment cards, quota and visas stay aligned from day one.
• We tell you when you do not need us. If the Instant Licence or an e-trader licence on Invest in Dubai fits your case and you are happy to do it yourself, we will say so.
• We are easy to reach. Our office is in Al Barsha 1, Dubai (Monday to Thursday and Saturday 09:00 to 18:00, Friday 09:00 to 12:00), and we act under power of attorney for owners who are abroad where the step allows it.

Before you set up a mainland company in Dubai: four decisions that shape everything

Almost every expensive mistake in a Dubai mainland company setup is made before the first application: the wrong activity, the wrong legal form, premises that cannot carry the hiring plan, or a mainland company where a free zone would have done (or the reverse). Four decisions come first, and each is covered by its own guide.

1. A mainland company or a free zone company?

A mainland company is licensed by DET and may sell anywhere in the UAE and abroad; it hires through MOHRE, with visa numbers set by MOHRE quota. A free zone company is licensed by its zone, trades inside the zone and abroad, and needs extra authorisation to sell directly into the mainland. In Dubai, Executive Council Resolution No. 11 of 2025 now lets a free zone company obtain a DET branch licence or a six-month permit (the “Free Zone Mainland Operating Permit”, AED 5,000, announced by the Dubai Media Office on 8 October 2025). The full comparison, including tax and per-hire costs, is in our free zone vs mainland Dubai guide.

2. Which activity, and which licence type for the mainland company?

Your activity decides your licence type, the external approvals you need, whether ownership is restricted, the kind of premises you need and some of the DET fees. u.ae lists six licence types at federal level (commercial, industrial, professional, tourism, agricultural and crafts), with variations by emirate. In practice most mainland company licences in Dubai are commercial or professional. Our Dubai mainland licence types guide explains each type and how to combine activities, and our general trading licence guide covers the broadest trading option.

3. Which legal form for your mainland company?

The legal form decides who owns the business, how far the owners are liable, whether you need a memorandum of association or a local service agent agreement, and what the licence can do. The common mainland forms are the limited liability company (including the one-person LLC), the sole establishment, the civil company for professional partnerships, and the branch of a UAE or foreign company. Our types of companies in Dubai guide compares them side by side.

4. Where will the mainland company sit?

Dubai Law No. 13 of 2011 requires every applicant to “specify the premises in the Emirate through which its Economic Activities will be conducted” (Article 17). The premises decide your Ejari, feed into the market fee DET charges on your rent, and later shape the visa quota MOHRE will approve. A flexi-desk may license a consultancy with two staff; it will not carry a team of fifteen. Our office space for a trade licence guide covers offices, business centres, warehouses and what a “virtual office” can and cannot do.

Who does what in a Dubai mainland company setup

Mainland company registration in Dubai touches at least eight authorities. Knowing which one owns which record explains most delays: DET can issue your licence in minutes, but GDRFA cannot open your immigration file until it exists, MOHRE will not issue permits until the immigration card exists, and banks want to see most of the above.

Every mainland company also receives a Dubai Unified Licence number, “a unique commercial identification provided to all businesses in Dubai” (Dubai Media Office, 12 November 2025), which other authorities and banks use to find your record.

The legal framework behind mainland company registration in Dubai

You do not need to read the laws to set up a mainland company in Dubai, but knowing which rule sits where helps when an official tells you something unexpected.

Mainland company formation Dubai, step by step

Here is each step in the order DET and the other authorities accept it. For each we give what happens, what the official sources say, the usual reason it goes wrong, and the guide with the full detail. u.ae describes nine steps for the mainland in general and the Ministry of Economy and Tourism ten; we split the post-licence work into its real parts because that is where new companies lose the most time.

Mainland company step 1: choose the activity and the licence type

Everything starts with the activity code. u.ae says you can choose from more than 2,000 activities and that a business may hold several. DET groups activities into licence types, mainly commercial (trading), professional (services and skills), industrial and tourism. The activity decides whether an outside approval is needed, whether foreign ownership is restricted, what premises are acceptable and, for some activities, an extra DET fee.

Choose the activity that describes what your mainland company will actually invoice for. An activity that is too narrow means an amendment later; one that is too broad can pull in approvals or costs you do not need. Combining activities is usually possible within the same licence type and group, but not every combination is accepted. Detail: our Dubai mainland licence types guide. If you plan to trade across many unrelated product lines, read our general trading licence guide before you choose.

Mainland company step 2: choose the legal form and check ownership

u.ae lists the mainland company forms as general partnership, limited partnership, LLC, public joint stock company and private joint stock company, and the Ministry adds the sole establishment and branch offices. For most founders the choice is between four:

• Limited liability company (LLC). Two to 50 partners, or a single natural or legal person (Decree-Law 32/2021, Art. 71). Liability is limited to the capital. The default for trading and most services.
• Sole establishment. One owner, no separate legal personality, so the owner is personally liable. Usually on a professional licence for foreigners, and then with a local service agent.
• Civil company. A partnership of professionals practising a profession together, on a professional licence.
• Branch. An existing UAE, free zone or foreign company licensed to operate in Dubai without forming a new legal person; the parent stays liable.

Ownership is the next check. Since 2021 the law “abolishes the requirement for a majority Emirati shareholder or local partner” for most activities (u.ae, updated 6 April 2026). Activities with strategic impact (security, defence, telecoms, banking, exchange, financing and insurance) and some others (commercial agencies, Hajj and Umrah organisation, fishing and natural pearl harvesting among them) keep restrictions. Detail: types of companies in Dubai, 100% foreign ownership in Dubai and branch of a foreign company in Dubai.

Mainland company step 3: reserve the trade name

The trade name is reserved with DET, online. u.ae sets the basic rules: the name must include the acronym of the legal form (for example LLC), must not already be registered, and must not offend public morals or use religious or government references. Names in a foreign language, abbreviations, personal names and names that look like existing brands have their own conditions, and a foreign-language name has historically carried a higher DET fee.

The name must fit the activity: one that suggests a regulated service (a “bank”, a “clinic”) will draw questions. And a trade name is not a trademark: it gives you the right to trade under that name in Dubai, not protection of the brand across the UAE. Detail, including reservation validity and changing a name later: our trade name registration guide.

Mainland company step 4: obtain the initial approval

The initial approval is DET’s statement that the government has no objection to you carrying on this activity under this name and form. u.ae describes it as signifying “government non-objection” and says that for foreign investors an approval from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs is needed first, which in practice is a background check on the owners and managers that runs in the background of the application.

The initial approval does not let you trade. It lets you do the next things: sign a lease in the mainland company’s name, prepare the MoA and apply for outside approvals. It has a validity period set by DET; if premises or approvals take longer, it may need extending. Rejections usually come from a mismatch between activity, name and form, or from the security check. Detail: our initial approval guide.

Mainland company step 5: lease premises and register Ejari

This is often the slowest step in a Dubai mainland company setup, because it depends on the property market, not a government system. The space must suit the activity (a warehouse for storage, a shop for retail, an office for services) and be registered with Ejari at the Dubai Land Department. DLD’s service card lists AED 177.75 online (AED 100 registration, AED 10 Knowledge, AED 10 Innovation, AED 55 service partner fee plus VAT) or AED 220 at a real estate trustee centre, which it says takes about 25 minutes excluding waiting.

The choice lasts for years: the registered rent drives the DET market fee on every voucher, the space is one of the factors MOHRE uses to set your quota, and moving is an amendment. DET-approved business centre desks satisfy the premises rule for many service activities, not for storage, retail or a large team. Detail: our office space for a trade licence guide, our visa quota guide for the link between space and visas, and our Ejari registration service.

Mainland company step 6: sign and attest the memorandum of association (or LSA agreement)

Companies with partners, and single-owner LLCs, need a memorandum of association. Article 14(1) of Decree-Law 32/2021 is blunt: the MoA “and any amendment thereto shall be drafted in the Arabic language and attested by the Competent Authority; otherwise, the MOA or the amendment thereto shall be null and void”. In Dubai the attestation is done by a notary public; Dubai Courts lists an e-notary service titled “Memorandum of Association of L.L.C”, and DET’s standard MoA can be used for simple companies.

The MoA sets out partners, shares, capital, objects, the managers (Art. 83) and their powers, decisions and share transfers; these clauses matter when a bank asks who may sign or a partner wants to leave. A professional sole establishment or civil company owned entirely by foreigners instead signs a local service agent agreement with a UAE national, who represents the business with government bodies but takes no share of ownership or profit. Detail: our memorandum of association guide and our local service agent guide. Foreign corporate documents and powers of attorney usually need attestation and legal translation first; our document attestation service and legal translation service handle both.

Mainland company step 7: obtain external approvals for regulated activities

Many activities need no outside approval at all. Others cannot be licensed without one. u.ae gives the Central Bank of the UAE, the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Commodities Authority as examples at federal level; in Dubai, health, food, education, transport, security and media activities are approved by the relevant Dubai or federal regulator. Law 13/2011 (Art. 7) has DET coordinate with those entities before it decides.

The regulator sets its own requirements and timeline, which can include inspections or qualified staff, and it often decides your launch date. Ask whether your activity needs one before you sign a long lease. Professional activities frequently require proof of the owner’s or manager’s qualifications; our professional licence guide explains how that works.

Mainland company step 8: pay the voucher and receive the licence

Once the name, approval, Ejari, MoA and any outside approvals are on the file, DET issues a payment voucher. u.ae is clear on the deadline: “You have to pay for your trade licence within 30 days of receiving the payment voucher.” After payment, the mainland company’s licence is issued electronically. Under Law 13/2011, Art. 8, it is valid for one year and renewable; at your request and with DET’s approval it can run for up to four years.

The voucher is built from separate lines: licence fees, trade name, the Knowledge and Innovation Dirhams, activity-specific fees for some activities, the market fee on your rent, and fees collected for other bodies. Read the voucher before paying: the activities, the rent figure, the owners and the manager should all match what you intended, because correcting them afterwards is an amendment. Every cost line, with worked totals, is in our mainland business setup cost guide.

Mainland company step 9: join Dubai Chambers

Membership is a legal obligation, not a marketing extra. Article 16(a) of Dubai Law No. 1 of 2022 says a person licensed by DET to conduct any of the listed commercial, industrial, agricultural, vocational or service activities “must join the membership of the Dubai Chambers”. Article 16(d) exempts owners of micro and small enterprises and practitioners of manual professions and handicrafts, “as specified in agreement with the DET”, who may join voluntarily.

Dubai Chambers’ new membership page says applications are made on its services portal and approved “within two hours of submission if you meet all the requirements”, and lists annual fees from AED 50 (handicrafts) and AED 300 (e-traders) to AED 2,200 (banks, insurers, contractors), with most commercial and professional firms between AED 500 and AED 2,200. Members use the Chamber for certificates of origin, attestation of commercial documents and business services. Detail: our Dubai Chamber membership guide.

Mainland company step 10: open the immigration establishment card and MOHRE labour file

A mainland company is not an employer until two government records exist. The first is the immigration establishment card, issued in Dubai by GDRFA: our establishment card guide sets out GDRFA’s published total of AED 280 and 48-hour completion time. ICP’s card for the other emirates lists AED 100 application, AED 100 issue, AED 100 smart services and a AED 2,000 system subscription, completed in two days. The second is the MOHRE establishment registration, with its own card (AED 406) and the e-signature card an authorised signatory needs to sign work permit applications.

The order between the two is a point where official pages differ; we explain it in the “silent or disagree” table below. In practice we open the immigration card first. MOHRE then assigns your quota. Detail: our MOHRE labour card guide, our labour file opening service and our establishment card service.

Mainland company step 11: quota, then partner and staff visas

u.ae explains that the number of employees a company may hire “depends on the quota approved by the ministry”, assessed on legal status, facility size and business need; it also mentions an AED 3,000 bank guarantee per employee, which MOHRE now allows to be replaced by an insurance policy. Owners usually take residence as partners or investors on their own mainland company; staff get a MOHRE work permit, entry permit or status change, medical, Emirates ID, residence and a registered contract.

On published lines, one overseas hire costs about AED 1,944 in MOHRE category 1, AED 2,894 in category 2 and AED 5,144 in category 3 before health insurance, as broken down in our employment visa cost guide. New companies with larger investments or qualifying owners can look at longer residence: see our golden and investor visa service. Quota growth is in our visa quota guide, contracts in our UAE contract types guide, salary payment in our WPS guide, and national hiring targets, which start to apply from 20 employees in specified sectors, in our Emiratisation guide. Our employment visa service processes the files.

Mainland company step 12: open the corporate bank account

No law sets a deadline for a bank account, but in practice a new mainland company needs one quickly: salaries must go through WPS, and many government and supplier payments need a company account. Banks apply their own know-your-customer rules. Expect to provide the licence, the MoA, the Ejari, the establishment card, owners’ and signatories’ passports, Emirates IDs and proof of address, the beneficial owner details, a business plan and evidence of expected counterparties and turnover.

Timelines vary by bank and by the complexity of your ownership. DET reports that accounts opened through its Dubai Unified Licence service provider project took about five days instead of 65; outside that channel, allow longer and apply to more than one bank if your structure involves foreign corporate shareholders. Detail: our corporate bank account guide.

Mainland company step 13: corporate tax, VAT and beneficial owner filings

Three federal filings follow the licence, each with its own deadline:

• Corporate tax registration. A resident juridical person incorporated on or after 1 March 2024 “must apply to register for Corporate Tax within three months from the date of incorporation, establishment or recognition” (FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024). Missing it costs AED 10,000 under Cabinet Decision No. 10 of 2024 (Ministry of Finance). The rate is 0% on taxable income up to AED 375,000 and 9% above.
• VAT registration. Mandatory when taxable supplies and imports exceed AED 375,000 over the previous 12 months or are expected to within the next 30 days; voluntary from AED 187,500 (FTA).
• Beneficial owner data. Cabinet Decision No. 109 of 2023 requires every mainland company to keep a register of beneficial owners (anyone owning or controlling 25% or more, directly or indirectly) and to submit the data to the registrar within 60 days of licensing (Art. 11), then report any change within 15 days (Art. 15).

Detail: our corporate tax registration guide and our UBO register guide. Tax advice on your structure belongs with a tax adviser; the registrations themselves are administrative.

After mainland company formation: amendments, renewals and aligned files

A mainland company’s details change: a partner joins, a manager leaves, an activity is added, the office moves. Each change is an amendment with DET, often with an attested MoA amendment, and each has knock-on updates at GDRFA, MOHRE, the bank, the FTA and the beneficial owner register. Our trade licence amendment guide explains the sequence. Renewal falls due every year (or at the end of a multi-year term), within the last month before expiry: see our trade licence renewal guide and, if a renewal slips, our expired trade licence guide. Our trade licence renewal service handles it each year.

What a Dubai mainland company setup costs: the structure

There is no single price for a Dubai mainland company setup, because the largest lines depend on your choices: rent drives the market fee, the activity drives activity fees and outside approvals, the legal form decides whether you need an MoA or an LSA, and the number of visas multiplies the per-hire costs. What we can show is the structure, with the lines that are officially published. Our mainland business setup cost guide takes every line in turn and builds worked totals for typical company profiles.

To compare mainland company formation quotes in Dubai, separate one-off lines (name, approval, MoA, first visas) from annual ones (licence, market fee, rent, Chamber, card renewal), and government fees from service fees: the government lines are the same whoever files them. Our UAE government fees list collects the authority fees in one place, and our PRO services cost guide explains how to read a service quote.

How long it takes to set up a mainland company in Dubai

The Ministry of Economy and Tourism says a company can be established in “4 days” through an emirate’s economic department, and Invest in Dubai issues trade names, approvals and some licences instantly; Gulf News reported on 3 August 2026 that 53% of the platform’s services are now delivered instantly. Those figures describe the government’s processing. Your own timeline is set by the steps outside the platform.

A simple service LLC with resident owners and no outside approval reaches its licence quickly; a restaurant, clinic or school waits on premises and regulators. The real planning question is not “how fast is the licence?” but “when can the mainland company pay its first salary through a bank account?”. For visa steps see our visa processing times guide.

Documents for mainland company registration in Dubai

The list depends on who the owners are. DET and the other authorities add requirements by activity, so treat this as the core set.

Foreign documents are the most common source of delay. Allow time for legalisation abroad and attestation by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then legal translation into Arabic. Our attestation process guide explains the order, and our apostille vs attestation guide explains why an apostille alone is usually not enough.

Setting up a mainland company from abroad

Much of a Dubai mainland company setup can be run while the owners are outside the UAE. Trade names, initial approvals and licence applications are online. Leases can be signed by a representative. Dubai Courts’ Smart Electronic Notary lets parties complete notarial transactions remotely, with verification by video or in person; its published fee for a power of attorney is AED 100 per signature, and foreign documents must be attested and translated into Arabic.

Residence visa biometrics and the bank’s identification of signatories still need the owner in person, so most owners run the licence stage remotely and plan one visit around the MoA, the visa medical and biometrics, and bank meetings.

Your mainland company’s first year: the compliance calendar

Most penalties new companies pay in their first year come from missed dates, not from wrongdoing. Put these in the diary on the day the licence issues.

If headcount grows, Emiratisation rules start to apply at 20 employees in specified sectors and at 50 employees across the private sector; our Emiratisation guide sets out targets and contributions. For the running work in general, our why companies need PRO services guide explains what the government side of a mainland company involves month to month, and our corporate PRO services team takes it over.

Where a Dubai mainland company setup goes wrong

These are the problems we are asked to fix most often after someone else, or the founder, has started the file. Each is avoidable at the planning stage.

Mainland company formation Dubai in practice: five cases

These cases are built from the situations we see most often. Names and identifying details are left out, and the figures are the published ones.

1. A two-partner IT services mainland company with resident founders

Situation: Two foreign residents plan an IT consultancy with four hires in year one, clients mostly Dubai companies.

Assessment: IT consultancy is not a restricted activity, so the partners can own 100% as an LLC. With four hires planned, a small serviced office suits better than a flexi-desk, since quota follows space. Route: LLC, small office on Ejari, Chamber membership the day the licence issues, immigration and MOHRE files the same week, partner residence for both founders, then four hires. Corporate tax registration diarised at month two, not month three.

2. An overseas parent choosing between a branch and a mainland company

Situation: A European engineering firm wants a Dubai presence to bid for regional projects, with a local manager and five engineers.

Assessment: Two options: a branch (the parent is liable and the branch has no separate personality) or a new LLC owned by the parent (liability limited to the subsidiary). Both need the parent’s documents legalised, attested and translated, and the beneficial owners behind the parent identified. Route: both options set out in writing; after legal advice, an LLC owned by the parent, with legalisation started abroad on day one because it was the longest step. See our branch of a foreign company guide.

3. A solo consultant who only needs a licence and her own visa

Situation: A marketing consultant on a spouse-sponsored visa wants to invoice Dubai clients in her own name. No staff planned.

Assessment: A full mainland company with an office is more than she needs. A professional licence (sole establishment with a local service agent) or DET’s e-trader route, where her nationality and activity allow, fits; she needs no quota while her residence stays with her spouse. Route: both compared against her two-year plan, and she was told which one she could complete herself. See our professional licence guide and home business licence guide.

4. A restaurant mainland company that signed a lease too early

Situation: Three partners signed a shop lease and started fit-out before applying for approvals.

Assessment: Food outlets need approvals from the relevant Dubai authorities before the licence, including premises and layout requirements. Fit-out done before approval can have to be redone. Route: initial approval first, then the premises and layout checked against the regulator’s requirements, then the MoA and licence; staff visas only when the opening date is fixed, because each hire starts a two-year cost. The lesson for everyone else: in regulated activities, the order is approval, then fit-out.

5. A free zone company whose Dubai clients now want a mainland company

Situation: A design agency in a Dubai free zone, eight staff, with a growing share of mainland clients.

Assessment: Under Executive Council Resolution No. 11 of 2025, a Dubai free zone company can apply for a DET branch licence or a six-month permit (AED 5,000) through Invest in Dubai, if it holds a Dubai Unified Licence and its zone approves. A new mainland LLC gives full onshore capacity but means a second company, a second immigration file and new visas for anyone who moves. Route: the permit covered the immediate work; a mainland LLC was planned for the following year when mainland revenue was expected to pass half the total. Our free zone vs mainland guide explains the trade-off.

Mainland company rules: where the official sources are silent or disagree

Dubai mainland company setup myths: what circulates online that is not true

How to verify every mainland company figure in this guide

If an official page has changed since we checked it, the official page wins.

What we will and will not do

We will plan your mainland company formation from the start: check your activity, legal form and premises against your plans before you pay; run the DET file, Ejari, MoA attestation, Chamber, establishment cards, labour file and first visas; separate government fees from our fee on every quote; diarise your tax and beneficial owner deadlines; and tell you when a question belongs with a lawyer, a tax adviser or the bank.

We will not promise a licence, an external approval, a visa quota or a bank account, which are decided by DET, the regulator, MOHRE and the bank; act as your local service agent or nominee shareholder; describe your activity in a way that does not match what you do to avoid an approval; or give tax or legal advice on your structure.

Related guides

• Free zone vs mainland Dubai: which set-up fits
• Mainland business setup cost in Dubai, line by line
• Types of companies in Dubai mainland
• Dubai mainland licence types
• Establishment card explained
• Company visa quota in Dubai
• MOHRE labour card guide
• Employment visa cost breakdown
• How to renew a trade licence in Dubai
• Expired trade licence in Dubai
• Emiratisation rules
• UAE government fees list 2026
• PRO services cost in Dubai
• Why companies need PRO services

Keeping a new company’s licence, Chamber membership, establishment cards, quota and staff visas aligned after formation is what our PRO services in Dubai team handles.