Unlike the free zone business setup, mainland companies have much scope of diversity. It has various options for conducting business activities. You can establish multiple branches of the company, enabling a large presence in the region, mainland companies can also carry out governmental contracts. There is no barrier on the number of visas and no yearly audits.

For company formation relevant Emirates ID, passports will be needed. We would like to highlight that 122 of the business verticals has the mandate of the local sponsor waived, and we expect this to further increase, thus giving full ownership to the investors that want the Mainland Company set up in UAE, for the remaining business verticals the maximum share that can be held by an expat is 49%.