Enablement
Investor and business enablement
We set out the path your matter follows in the Sultanate of Oman, prepare the business side of the file, coordinate with the competent authorities and licensed providers, and keep you informed until completion.
Every matter in Oman has its order. You do not need to be told that something can be done. You need someone who knows what each authority decides and what it will ask for, which step the law reserves to a licence holder, and where your matter stands at each stage. That is our role: we enable our clients to complete their transactions and tasks properly and in full, in line with the regulations and procedures applied in the Sultanate of Oman.
When the matter is defined and its order is not
Clients come to us with something specific to complete:
- An established company adding an activity, a licence or a branch, or changing its registered details, that wants every requirement known before the first application.
- A new project that needs approvals from more than one authority, each with its own requirements.
- An investor from outside Oman preparing to enter the market, inside a special economic zone or free zone or outside one, who wants the routes compared in economic terms before committing.
- A registered company that wants what follows registration, and its periodic obligations, put in order.
Between registration and operation
Commercial registration and licensing are carried out online through the Oman Business Platform. Yet entering an activity in the commercial registration does not by itself give the right to practise it where a specific law sets additional requirements. After registration a company completes its activity licences, chamber membership, premises and municipal licence, tax registration, labour and residence procedures, social protection registration and bank account. Decisions rest with the competent authorities. Our part is a file that is complete and correctly sequenced.
Alongside your own advisers
Your lawyers and auditors keep their role in full. Ours is the economic and administrative side: the study, the figures, the plans, the requirement lists, and coordination with the competent authorities and licensed providers. Work that carries its own licence goes to a licensed provider of your choosing; the application and the signature remain yours. Our team's work is reviewed by the expert board.
A written proposal before any work
An engagement begins with a first meeting, without obligation, at our office or remotely, under a non-disclosure agreement if you ask for one. A written proposal follows: the path as we read it, the scope, the deliverables, the fees and who is responsible for your file. No work begins until you approve it. Our fees are agreed in writing before work begins; government fees are separate and set by the competent authorities.
Where a matter first needs a counterparty or a partner, see commercial brokerage or direct investment and partnerships. For a first company, begin with the path to establishing a company.
A clear role at every step
What we do
- The path in writing, in business terms: which authority, which approval, which document, in which order
- The business side of the file: the study, the financial plan, the workforce plan and the requirement lists
- Coordination with the competent authorities, and with licensed providers where a step requires a licence
- A clear account of where the matter stands at each stage, until it is complete
- A calendar of the periodic obligations that fall due once the matter is complete
What licensed providers do
- Incorporation procedures, contracts and legal opinions: a licensed law office
- Statutory accounts and audit: a licensed auditor
- Property search, sale, lease and valuation: licensed brokers and valuers
- Customs clearance: a licensed clearance office
- Anything involving securities or bank finance: the licensed institutions
What we do not do
- We do not sign on your behalf: you remain the applicant and the signatory
- We do not promise an approval or a duration: decisions rest with the competent authorities
- We do not give legal advice or draft contracts
- We do not arrange nominee partners or name-lending structures
The steps, in order
A first meeting, without obligation, to understand the matter and its purpose, under a non-disclosure agreement if you ask for one
A written proposal with the path, scope, deliverables and fees, naming who is responsible for your file; no work begins until you approve it
We prepare the business side of the file and coordinate with the competent authorities and licensed providers, while you sign and submit
You receive the complete file, with a note of what has been completed and a calendar of the obligations that fall due next
What you receive
- The path in writing, in its order: the authority, the approval and the document at each step
- Requirement and document lists for each authority
- The study, the financial plan and the workforce plan, as the proposal specifies
- A note of where the matter stands at each stage
- A closing note of what was completed, with a calendar of periodic obligations
Integrated Consultancy is an economic consultancy. Legal work, including the drafting of contracts and company incorporation procedures, statutory audit, customs clearance and other separately licensed activities are carried out by providers that hold the relevant licence. Decisions on registrations, licences and permits rest with the competent authorities. Requirements, fees and time frames are set by the competent authorities and change from time to time. We confirm the rules in force for each case before acting.
Next step
Begin with the matter in hand
Tell us about it in a first meeting. We listen, ask what needs asking and tell you plainly whether we can help, and how. The meeting is free and without obligation, under a non-disclosure agreement if you ask for one.