Halvorsen & Reith

Beneficial ownership disclosure review in Abu Dhabi Global Market

A beneficial ownership disclosure review in Abu Dhabi Global Market examines whether the group's actual owners and controllers match what the ADGM Registrar of Companies currently holds on file. It also checks whether the internal record behind that filing would survive a request from the Registrar or a regulator. The review sits inside the wider practice of corporate secretarial and disclosure work, but ADGM applies its own register, its own control test and its own consequence for getting the filing wrong. For a foreign-owned holding structure, the gap between what the group believes has been disclosed and what the register actually shows is usually the first thing a review finds.

A UAE holding company with an AD

By Sofia Anselm