Corporate & transactions

Market Entry & Licensing

Entering a new market is a sequence of legal decisions that are expensive to reverse: structure, jurisdiction, licence category, ownership, and the contracts with the people who will run it. LexFound gets those decisions right first time.

Markets: UAE · Saudi Arabia · Egypt · Morocco · Cyprus · Delivered through LexFound

Mainland, free zone or offshore in the UAE; regional headquarters and foreign investment licensing in Saudi Arabia; the investment law regime in Egypt; free zones and the auto-entrepreneur regime in Morocco. Each offers real advantages for the right business and real constraints for the wrong one. We advise on the choice, then execute it end to end, including bank account opening, which remains the slowest step in most launches.

Discuss a market entry & licensing matter

What we do

Jurisdiction and structure selection
Company formation, licensing and registrations
Foreign ownership, local partner and nominee-free structuring
Regional headquarters and investment licensing in Saudi Arabia
Bank account opening and KYC preparation
Visas, establishment cards and initial employment set-up
Ongoing compliance calendar after launch

Questions clients ask

Straight answers first.

How long does company formation take in the UAE?

A free zone company can be licensed in days once documents are in order; mainland licensing and regulated activities take longer. Bank account opening is usually the critical path and we prepare the KYC file from day one to shorten it.

Related insights