UAE corporate registry

Is there a single public company register in the UAE?

No. UAE company records are held by many separate authorities — each emirate’s economic department for mainland firms, and each free-zone authority (DIFC, ADGM, DMCC and others) for its own. They confirm a licence exists, but there is no single national register of litigation or judgments.

This fragmentation is the core problem in UAE due diligence: confirming a company exists is straightforward, but assembling its legal-risk history means stitching together records across jurisdictions that do not share a search.

Counterscope exists to close that gap — indexing the available official sources into one searchable, evidence-backed view per entity.