Licence Validity
Whether the licence is current, and critically whether the licensed activity covers what is actually being sold to you.
Verification is the cheapest legal work you will ever pay for. Checking a counterparty before the first payment costs a fraction of what recovering that payment costs afterwards, and it succeeds far more often.
Dubai Legal Expert verifies UAE companies and counterparties for businesses across the Emirates, covering licence status, ownership, litigation history and the practical question of whether the company has any substance behind it.
A trade licence proves registration, not reliability. A meaningful check goes further: whether the licensed activity actually covers what the company is selling, how long it has traded, who owns and controls it, whether it has premises and staff, and whether it is currently defending claims.
Those elements together answer the only question that matters before you commit funds, which is whether there is anything behind this company if the transaction goes wrong.
Contact UsConfirming the licence is valid, current, and actually covers the activity being offered to you.
Identifying the shareholders, managers and signatories, and any related entities behind them.
Checking whether the company or its principals are currently involved in proceedings or execution.
Establishing whether premises, staff and trading history exist or whether the entity is a shell.
Practical recommendations on payment structure and security given what the verification found.
Whether the licence is current, and critically whether the licensed activity covers what is actually being sold to you.
Shareholders, managers and authorised signatories identified, along with related entities under the same control.
Whether the company or its principals are defending claims or subject to execution proceedings.
Premises, staff and trading history assessed, since a licence alone tells you almost nothing.
Confirmation that the person signing your contract actually has authority to bind the company.
Recommendations on staged payments, security and guarantees based on what the verification revealed.
Nearly every business fraud file we open involves a counterparty who could have been identified as a risk beforehand. New licence, activity that did not match the offering, no premises, sole signatory with no traceable history, and a request for full payment in advance.
Recovering money after the fact is uncertain and expensive. Verification is fast, inexpensive and definitive, and the same fee spent before the transaction protects considerably more value than it does afterwards.
Check the paperwork, check the substance, then advise on how to structure the deal.
We establish what the transaction involves, what is at stake and what level of verification is proportionate.
Licence validity, activity scope, registration details and ownership are verified.
Shareholders, managers and signing authority are confirmed, along with related entities.
Existing proceedings and execution matters involving the company or its principals are checked.
Premises, staff, trading history and other indicators of real operation are assessed.
A written report is issued with a clear recommendation on whether and how to proceed.
The licence did not cover the activity they were selling. That single finding stopped a substantial advance payment.
We now verify every new supplier before the first order. It takes a day and it has already paid for itself twice.
Licence validity and activity scope, ownership and signing authority, litigation and execution history, and whether the company has real premises, staff and trading substance.
A licence proves registration only. It says nothing about whether the licensed activity covers what is being sold, or whether the company has any substance.
A standard verification is usually completed within one to three working days depending on the scope and the entity.
Existing proceedings and execution matters involving the company or its principals can be checked as part of the verification.
Yes. Free zone entities are verified through their registry alongside the same ownership, substance and litigation checks.
We set out the specific concerns and recommend how to structure the transaction, including staged payments, security or declining to proceed.
One day of verification costs a fraction of one week of recovery. The first consultation is free.
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