Corporate Secretarial Services
Corporate Secretarial Services in UAE
Keep your board, your registers, and your filings in order without hiring a full-time secretary.
Strong corporate governance depends on consistent statutory compliance, accurate record-keeping, and proper board support, but not every business can justify a full-time in-house company secretary. Farahat & Co. provides outsourced corporate secretarial services for businesses across the UAE, supporting boards, directors, and management teams with governance, statutory compliance, and company administration.
- Full secretarial function: outsourced corporate secretary duties covering statutory compliance and governance administration.
- Board and committee support: meeting coordination, attendance, and accurate minuting.
- Named appointments: company secretary, registered office address, and director services where required.
- Transaction support: secretarial coverage for acquisitions, fundraising, restructuring, and strike-off processes.
Whether you need the function fully outsourced or additional support alongside an existing in-house team, our corporate secretarial services scale to your governance structure.
Talk to a Corporate Secretarial ExpertWhat Do Corporate Secretarial Services Cover?
Corporate secretarial services cover the administrative, governance, and statutory compliance functions that keep a company properly managed under UAE company law. This goes well beyond taking meeting minutes.
Our corporate secretarial services include planning and executing board and committee meetings, from agenda formulation and attendee logistics through to shareholder meeting oversight. We maintain and organise statutory records, including business licences, stock transfers, contracts, capitalisation tables, and shareholder correspondence, and we distribute accurate minutes that reflect the board’s final decisions rather than a loose summary of discussion.
Beyond administration, our team advises boards and officers on their duties, briefs new appointees on governance expectations, and supports management in overseeing subsidiaries or representative offices where a corporate structure requires it.
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Corporate Secretarial Services and UAE Company Law Obligations
UAE-registered companies operate under governance and record-keeping requirements set out in Federal Law No. 32 of 2021 on Commercial Companies, along with the specific companies regulations that apply in each free zone.
These requirements include maintaining statutory registers of shareholders, directors, and managers, documenting board resolutions accurately, and keeping company constitutional documents current and available to regulators on request.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction: the DIFC allows appointment of a corporate entity as company secretary, while most other free zones and the mainland require a named individual to hold the role. Our corporate secretarial team tracks which framework applies to your entity and structures your governance documentation accordingly, so nothing is missed when a regulator, bank, or auditor requests it.
What Our Corporate Secretarial Services Include
Board and Committee Meeting Support
Statutory Record Maintenance
Governance Advisory
Director and Board Member Training
Who Needs Outsourced Corporate Secretarial Services?
Outsourced corporate secretarial services suit a wide range of UAE businesses, not only startups. Startups and SMEs typically cannot justify a full-time in-house appointment but still carry the same statutory obligations as larger companies.
Established businesses going through a transaction, such as an acquisition, fundraising round, or restructuring, often need short-term specialist support that exceeds what an in-house team is set up to handle.
Companies with an existing in-house secretariat sometimes need partnership support during peak periods or for specialist matters outside their team’s usual scope. In each case, the value is the same: consistent, professional oversight of governance and compliance obligations, backed by a team that works with UAE regulatory requirements daily rather than occasionally.
Get Corporate Secretarial SupportWhy Businesses Choose Our Corporate Secretarial Team
Corporate secretarial work depends on judgement as much as process, which is why our team combines technical knowledge of UAE governance requirements with organisational discipline and professional discretion on every engagement.
We are experienced across UAE corporate governance, regulatory requirements, and statutory obligations, and detail-oriented in a way that ensures nothing is missed in compliance or administration.
Because the role sits close to board-level decision-making, effective communication with directors and management matters as much as accuracy, and so does discretion in handling sensitive corporate and governance matters. Our team also stays calm and rational under pressure, particularly during transactions, disputes, or regulatory reviews, when governance documentation tends to matter most.
Talk to a Corporate Secretarial ExpertWork With Our Corporate Secretarial Services Team
We support UAE businesses with corporate secretarial services covering governance, statutory compliance, board support, policy implementation, and company administration. Service packages are flexible and adapted to the specific structure and needs of each business, whether you require the function fully outsourced or additional capacity alongside your existing team.
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