The UAE is one of the great business platforms of our time, and its most successful entrepreneurs already know its boundary: a free zone entity opens the region, not the world. European banks, blue chip counterparties and acquirers still apply a different level of scrutiny to free zone paper.
The answer is not to leave Dubai. It is to add a European pillar alongside it. A Swiss company gives a UAE based group the standing, banking depth and treaty network that complete the platform, while operations remain exactly where they are.
Gulf operations plus a Swiss entity is a structure European institutions recognise and respect. It converts a regional business into an international one in the eyes of the people who price risk.
Swiss corporate accounts bring multi currency depth, private banking access and a stability of relationship that regional banking cannot always offer. We prepare the file and introduce clients to institutions matched to their profile.
Economic substance requirements reached the UAE years ago and they are tightening everywhere. A Swiss company with a resident director and registered office is built to the standard regulators and banks now test.
Seraama is a Zug based boutique founded by a UK qualified lawyer with twenty three years of international corporate experience. We form the Swiss company, provide the resident director and registered office that give it real substance, prepare the banking file and make the introduction. One firm, one standard, personally accountable for what we build.
We take a limited number of clients, principally from the Gulf, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and most arrive through professional referral. Fees are quoted in writing after a short consultation; we do not publish price lists, deliberately.
Because they do different jobs. The free zone entity is an efficient regional operating platform. The Swiss entity is the international holding and credibility layer: it consolidates ownership, holds intellectual property, and faces European banks and counterparties at full value. The strongest UAE groups run both.
Both architectures exist, and the right one depends on where value, ownership and future exits sit. In most of our UAE mandates, the Swiss company holds or stands beside the UAE entity rather than under it. We design this in the first consultation.
No. Swiss law requires a Swiss resident director or authorised signatory, and we provide that role professionally together with the registered office in Zug. You manage your business from where you are.
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