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Step into the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), a world-class onshore business and financial hub, and build from a place designed to help you work more efficiently and think more ambitiously. In Qatar’s future-focused landscape, QFC gives you the structure to get started with confidence and the flexibility to scale with ease.
Operating within a globally aligned framework, firms gain access to both the local market and wider regional opportunities, all within a setting built for modern business. This arrangement lets you focus more on progress and less on the process.
When you are ready to grow with confidence, QFC grows with you.
QFC provides a world-class platform for businesses looking to establish and grow in Qatar.
Choose the right activities from a full range of regulated and non-regulated business, matched to how you operate
QFC licenses a range of regulated and non-regulated activities, whether firms are offering financial services or scaling into a specialist sector, QFC provides the license to get them started
Legal Structures
Choosing the Right Legal Structure
Choose the right legal support from a range of corporate and private wealth structures built to help you work more efficiently and keep your risk in check.
QFC allows a range of corporate vehicles and legal structures to support how you set up your business. Whether you are establishing a new entity, opening a branch, building a holding structure, or establishing a family office, QFC gives you the room to shape it the way you need.
• Limited Liability Company (LLC)
• Company Limited by Guarantee (LLC(G))
• Single Family Office (SFO)
• Investment Club (IC)
• Special Purpose Company (SPC)
• Holding Company (HC)
• Foundation
• Branch
• Partnership (including Limited Partnership)
• Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
Review the tax rate, exemptions, concessions, reliefs, advance rulings and access to Qatar's Double Taxation Agreement network.
Connect with our team to discuss your plans, proposed activities and eligibility to set up your business at QFC
Submit your application and documents for review
Get incorporated, licensed and supported with banking and operational setup
An application to conduct regulated activities in the QFC is subject to additional pre-approval and authorisation requirements from the Qatar Financial Regulatory Authority (QFCRA).
Please note that additional information or documentation may be requested during the review process, which may affect processing timelines.
For clients who need to hit the ground running, the Elite Onboarding Services offer three tiered packages - Executive, Premium and Platinum - each designed to take the friction out of setting up in Qatar.
To help keep your application moving smoothly, prepare the following documents and information before submitting it through the QFC Portal.
Business details such as the proposed company name, planned activities and an overview of how the business will operate, including confirmation that the activities fall within QFC's permitted scope
Corporate governance includes details about the directors, the company secretary, and the individual holding the Senior Executive Function (SEF)
Financial information covering share capital details, shareholder information and financial projections
Registered office address within QFC-approved premises
Company documents, including the Articles of Association (AoA)
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) information
Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) is a leading onshore business and financial centre, offering a world-class platform for both domestic and international companies to establish and operate in Qatar, and is supported by a legal and regulatory environment based on international best business practices.
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