Directorship & Secretary Services

Executive support

Onboard a local resident for your business in the UAE

The support and advice you need.

We help UAE based businesses ensure that the company is run in a way that is fair, transparent, and accountable to all stakeholders. We do it by providing UAE companies with local Directors and Secretaries.

Bringing a local specialist onboard your company to act as a Director and/or Secretary helps your business with:

  • Corporate Governance
  • Increased Economic Substance
  • Representing the interests of a particular stakeholder
  • Increased privacy
  • Complying with local regulatory requirements

Duties and responsabilities

Directorship services

As a Director your company we will attend the company's board meetings, review and approve accounts, as well as monitor ongoing performance of the company. Our resident Director will meet your legal responsibilities, whilst looking after your commercial interests. This is broadly the fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company.

Secretary services

Our corporate secretaries ensure the business's full compliance with all local rules and regulations. Most UAE licensing authorities require companies to appoint a secretary, and it often makes financial sense to outsource this need to a corporate service provider that will appoint a qualified corporate secretary. This is especially true for new companies that may find all the regulatory matters challenging.

If a fiduciary Director is not what you are looking for, we also offer nominee Director services.

Our nominees are UAE residents. A nominee director is appointed by the shareholders of the company and will act solely on behalf of the beneficiary of the company. To benefits from our nominee Director services our clients sign a declaration of Trust stating that the Director operates solely as a nominee director and acts strictly for the benefit of the ultimate beneficiary or shareholder of the company in the UAE. They can only act following instructions from the beneficial owner.

Corporate Services

StoneGate is a one-stop shop for all your corporate needs: Company amendments, investor/employee visas, payroll, Directorship services, Facilitation of bank account opening, notarization, and much more.

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Notarization & Attestation Services

We provide notarization and legalization services in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We work with Public and Private notaries.

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