In response to happyjohn, please note that some professional service providers might not be interested in the potential leads they perceive they could gather from offshorecorptalk.
Among my relatives and kindred, there are people who are involved in serving different types of clients in the UAE under different︀ firms, whose average clients are very different in size.
I feel that there are primarily︁ SME owners here (e.g., companies with less than 50 employees), so recommending a firm that︂ mostly serves multinational corporations will probably not be very useful to most forum users.
The challenges and expectations of a small family-owned business and a billion-dollar company are somewhat different.︃
With that in mind, we have opened an office in UAE and aim to provide︄ a full scope of corporate services in-house.
This means a partner who would help you︅ set up and manage the company compliantly, including appointing directors.
Currently our UAE team consists︆ of a few employees.
We specialise in international tax and understand well the challenges and︇ needs of family-owned and owner-managed businesses.
We have a great deal for auditing for our︈ clients (provided by a partner).
Note that corporate services are not the same as legal︉ firms, so if you seek legal advice, you should better approach law firms.
Prior to︊ the implementation of CIT in UAE, most corporate service providers only helped to set up︋ and renew company licenses; all other services were outsourced. I believe the industry will change︌ a bit now, as clients might expect to get the full range of corporate services︍ under one roof.
