Corporate & Commercial
Company Formation, Licensing & Free Zones in Egypt
A clear route to establishing, licensing, and maintaining your business in Egypt.
We help Egyptian and foreign investors enter the market and establish the right vehicle — from company formation and GAFI procedures to free-zone establishment, investment licensing, and the corporate amendments that follow — coordinated end to end so the business starts, and stays, on a sound legal footing.
How we help
What we handle for you
- Limited liability, joint stock, and sole-shareholder company formation
- Branch registration and representative offices for foreign companies
- GAFI procedures and investment licensing
- Free-zone establishment and incentive regimes
- Foreign ownership structuring and approvals
- Commercial registry procedures and tax registration coordination
- Capital increases, reductions, and corporate amendments
- Change of management, activities, and headquarters
- Government filings and ongoing corporate compliance
When to involve us
When you might need us
Entering the Egyptian market for the first time
Choosing between an LLC, JSC, branch, or free-zone vehicle
An existing entity needs amendments, restructuring, or re-licensing
Tell us where things stand — we'll take it from there.
Our approach
How we approach your matter
Market entry in Egypt is a sequence, not a single filing: entity selection, GAFI approvals, commercial registry, tax registration, and sector licences each depend on the step before it. Choosing the wrong vehicle at the start — or documenting it loosely — surfaces later as blocked banking, licensing friction, or an ownership structure a regulator will not accept.
Formation is the beginning of a relationship with the authorities, not the end of one. We build each establishment so that the amendments every growing business eventually needs — capital, management, activity, premises — can be executed quickly and without reopening settled questions.
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Assess
We begin with a disciplined intake — mapping facts, exposures, counterparties, and the commercial objective before any legal position is taken.
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Structure
We design the legal architecture — instruments, protections, and sequencing — to align with the client's commercial and regulatory reality.
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Execute
We drive negotiation, drafting, filings, or advocacy with senior involvement on every substantive point — no delegation of judgment.
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Protect
We close the loop — enforcement, monitoring, and continuity — so the outcome holds under commercial and legal pressure.
From our experience
Situations we're often brought in on
- A foreign group establishing its first Egyptian subsidiary — vehicle selection, GAFI approvals, and registration coordinated end to end.
- An investor weighing a free-zone establishment against an inland entity, with incentives, ownership, and licensing mapped before commitment.
- An operating company changing its legal form, capital, and management as it prepares for new investment.
Anonymized examples.
Senior lawyers, directly involved
A senior lawyer stays engaged in every substantive decision.
Deep Egypt expertise
Command of Egyptian law, courts, regulators and commercial reality.
Clarity at every step
Options and consequences explained, the next step defined with you.
Let's start with one clear step.
Your enquiry is reviewed by a senior lawyer — in Arabic or English — and treated with complete discretion.