Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO)

BUSINESS

COMPANY REGISTRATION

free zone

IN THIS ARTICLE:

Dubai Silicon Oasis is located 30 minutes from Jebel Ali Port and Rashid Port next to Dubai Al Ain Roads. The free zone is home to the so-called Dubai Digital Park, a smart city spread over 150,000 square metres and consisting of office buildings, apartments, numerous cafés and restaurants with a developed infrastructure for work and life.

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Free zone features

A favorable infrastructure for opening a company office;
Support for technology projects.

Free zone specialises in attracting high-tech companies, promoting modern industries, innovation, development and research in these fields, so it positions itself as a high-tech park, a silicon valley. Companies from the fields of IT, GameDev, telecom, engineering and others are usually registered in this freezone.

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What types of licenses are available?

Companies wishing to set up operations in the DSO can choose from three types of license:

Service license: provision of the services specified in the license.
Trade license: the import, export and sale of goods specified in the license.
Industrial license: import of raw materials, production, processing, collection, packaging and export of finished goods.

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The following types of companies are allowed to be registered in this freezone:

Free Zone Establishment (FZE) — a company with one shareholder.
Free Zone Company (FZC) — a company with 2 or more shareholders.
A branch of a company already incorporated in the UAE. The activities that the branch plans to carry on in the DSO must be identical to those of the parent company.
Branch of a foreign company. The activities of the branch it plans to carry out in the DSO must be identical to those carried out by the parent company.