Companies' Legislations

القرار الوزاري رقم (5) لسنة 2025 بشأن تشكيل لجنة الأنشطة الاقتصادية

القرار الوزاري رقم (50) لسنة 2025 بشأن إنقاص فترة الحظر ع لى نقل ملكية أسهم الشركات ا لمساهمة الخاصة ا لمدرجة في الأسواق المالية بالدولة

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Federal Decree Law No. 37 of 2022 Concerning Family Companies (Businesses)

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Federal Decree-Law no. (32) of 2021 ON COMMERCIAL COMPANIES

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The law aims to enhance the openness of the UAE’s business climate in a way that supports the competitiveness of the national economy and the dynamism of the business environment. It is also aimed at providing a dynamic and advanced investment environment that enables investors to implement vital economic projects, increase the attraction of foreign companies and attract FDI to the country’s vital economic sectors. This Law's amendments include the development of financing solutions for companies and restructuring operations and finding solutions to the challenges faced by business activities operating in the UAE . The most prominent provisions and amendments to this Law include elimination of the maximum and minimum percentage of the founders’ contribution to the company’s capital at the time of the public offering, cancellation of the legal limitation of the subscription period, leaving the two matters to the specification drafted in the prospectus, elimination of the requirement for the nationality of the members of the board of directors, upholding the organization shareholders’ decisions in the election of board members, in accordance with the terms and conditions set by the competent authority, allowing branches of foreign companies licensed in the country to transform into a commercial company with UAE citizenship.

Federal Decree-Law No. (37) of 2021 ON THE COMMERCIAL REGISTER

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Federal Decree-Law No. 37 of 2021 on Commercial Registry aims to make the Economic Register a comprehensive reference for economic activities in the UAE to help investors and companies develop their businesses based on documented, integrated and accurate information. The registry will serve as a significant resource that accelerates the growth of economic sectors and enhances the UAE’s position as a destination for future investments and innovative ideas in new economic sectors. The Law serves all members of the society and the concerned authorities in the government and the private sector both inside and outside the country. It specifically targets those who conduct economic activities in the UAE, including companies to which the provisions of the Commercial Companies Law apply, civil corporations that take a form of commercial corporations. As well as, companies established or contributed by the federal government or local governments, that are carrying out commercial activity in the country, companies and institutions that carry out a professional activity, companies established by law or pursuant to a law or decree to carry on a commercial activity, branches, offices and agencies of foreign companies, companies and establishments that carry out their activities in the UAE’s free zones, and sole proprietorship enterprises. The most prominent provisions and amendments to this Law include the establishment of the economic register as the official reference for data and information for establishments with economic activity in the UAE and enabling use of the unified economic register number as a digital identity for establishments.

Cabinet Decision No. 107/2022 On the Issuance of the Implementing Regulation of Federal Decree-Law No. 37/2021 on the Commercial Register

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Federal Law No (6) of 2018 on Arbitration

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The provisions of this law apply to any arbitration conducted in the UAE, unless the parties thereto agree that another law should govern the arbitration – provided that it does not conflict with public order and morality in the UAE – as well as to any international arbitration conducted overseas and the parties thereto agree that it should be governed by this law. It also applies to any arbitration arising from a dispute concerning a legal relationship – contractual or otherwise – governed by the laws of the UAE. The law introduces the international character of arbitration, the arbitration agreement, the arbitration tribunal and selection thereof. It further details the prerequisites that must be met by the arbitrator, the arbitration procedures – insofar as the joining or intervention of new parties – equality of the parties, place and language of arbitration, statement of claim and defence; in addition to default of the parties and other relevant matters and affairs.

مرسوم بقانون اتحادي رقم (15) لسنة 2023 بشأن تعديل بعض أحكام القانون الاتحادي رقم (6) لسنة 2018 بشأن التحكيم في قسم الشركات

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Federal Decree-Law No. (51) of 2023 Promulgating the Financial and Bankruptcy Law

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Cabinet Decree No. (132) of 2023 Concerning the Administrative Penalties for Violations of the Provisions of Cabinet Decree No. (109) of 2023 on the Regulation of the Procedures of the Beneficial Owner

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Cabinet Decision No. 109/2023 On the Regulation of the Real Beneficiary Procedures

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قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم ( 65 ) لسنة 2023 بشأن لجان الرقابة الشرعية الداخلية والمر اقب الشرعي.

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Cabinet Decision No. 102/2022 On the Issuance of the Regulation on the Administrative Penalties for Acts Committed in Violation of the Provisions of Federal Decree-Law No. 32 /2021 on the Commercial Companies

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Cabinet Decision No. 79/2022 Concerning the Controls of Motivating Commercial Companies to Exercise Their Social Responsibility

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Cabinet Decision No. 77/2022 Concerning Limited Liability Companies

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Cabinet Resolution No (55) Of 2021 regarding Determining the List of Activities with Strategic Impact

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Article (2) of this resolution identifies a list of strategic impact activities and the guidelines for licensing companies engaged in such activities, which include: security and defence activities, activities of military nature, banks, exchange houses, financing and insurance companies, money printing, telecommunications, Hajj and Umrah services, Holy Quran memorisation centres and services pertaining to fisheries in which UAE nationals maintain a 100% ownership. Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article (2), a foreign investor wishing to engage in a strategic impact activity must submit a licensing request to the competent authority, as per the guidelines and conditions set out in federal and local legislations that are relevant to that activity.

قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم ( 20) لسنة 2020 في شأن رسوم الخدمات التي تقدمها وزارة الإقتصاد

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Ministerial Decision No. 138/2024 On the Controls and Procedures for Registering Branches and Representative Offices of Foreign Companie

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Ministerial Decision No. 137/2024 On the Regulation of the Registrar’s Work, Controls of Private Joint Stock Companies and the Rules of Governance

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القرار الوزاري رقم (24) لسنة 2024 بشأن تشكيل اللجنة المشتركة للنظر في طلبات تحول الشركات المساهمة العامة إلى شركات مساهمة خاصة

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