Masdar City Free Zone

Company Formation in Masdar City

Masdar City Free Zone Company Formation

A sustainable urban development and economic free zone, Masdar City serves as a “greenprint” for cities of the future. It seamlessly blends traditional Arabic architecture with state-of-the-art technology to maximise energy efficiency. Masdar City eventually will host up to 40,000 residents and 50,000 commuters.

The Free Zone plays an important role in bringing businesses to Masdar City. As a business cluster, the Free Zone offers companies a complete business set-up solution, including commercial office space and business registration and licensing.

Masdar pursues clean, renewable energy development through two investment vehicles. Masdar Clean Energy builds some of the world’s most sophisticated and commercially driven clean energy projects. With a focus on mature technologies in solar and wind power, it generates nearly 1 gigawatt of clean power. Masdar Clean Energy aims to increase that to 1.5 gigawatts by 2020. Masdar Special Projects focuses on small and medium-sized applications in often challenging conditions and geographies. It has delivered 14 projects in five countries and has 13 ongoing projects across nine different countries.

MASDAR City freezone, located in Abu Dhabi, is the leading hub of companies with activities in Oil and gas sector as well as Energy sector. AURION team has expertise in registering companies in Masdar city, complying with all approvals from Government.

Masdar Free Zone has been recognized by fDi Magazine as the 2016 Best Free Zone for R&D Partnerships and one of the Best Middle East Free Zones for Start Ups and Large Companies.

Licensing Segments

There are a wide range of business categories for which a license may be issued at Masdar City. The business segments for which license applications are accepted in Masdar City include:

Renewable Energy

Service Providers

Clean Tech & ICT

Marketing and Events

Energy Industry

Healthcare Services

Human Resources Development

Business Centre and Data Centres

Property Development Services

Regional Head Quarters, Trading and Holding Companies

Community Services (Retail, Food and Beverage outlets) Oil and Gas Services

License Packages & Masdar City Free Zone Company Setup Cost

Flexi-desk & License

DESCRIPTION	FEE IN AED
License Fee	10,000
Registration fee	5,000
Flexidesk fee	13,500
Security deposit	2,000
Total	32,500

Office Rental Rates

FORMAT	FURNITURE PROVIDED	FEE IN AED
Executive Office	Yes	2400/sqm/year
Serviced Office	Yes	900/sqm/year
Commercial Office (Core&Shell)	No	1,550/sqm/year

Note:

A security deposit equal to 2 months rent is required for the rental of all office formats
All office formats are subject to availability

Serviced offices are shared and have an administration fee of AED 5,000 per year
Commercial offices have an additional service charge of AED 250/sqm/year

PACKAGE	NO. OF ACTIVITIES	LICENSE FEE (AED)
Start Up	2	10,000
Mid – Range	5	15,000
Wide – Range	10	20,000
UAE Nationals & Khalifa	5	10,000

Documents Required for Company Incorporation in MASDAR City Freezone:

Proposed name of the entity at Masdar City
Proposed legal structure of the entity
If it is an LLC who would be the owner, In case the owner would be a company then we would need a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the Company and if it is an individual we would need his/her passport copy. For branch we require certificate of incorporation of parent Company.
Activity of the proposed company
Proposed Company’s (in Masdar City) manager’s passport copy with visa page and contact details (email, tel., mobile etc…)
Application deposit of AED 2,000 (non-refundable, this would be adjusted towards the registration fee)
Submitting original Arabic NOC and the Undertaking letter.

* There is a minimum capital deposit of AED 50,000 required for setting up a Limited Liability company

Time Span: 10 working days

AURION Assistance: Team Aurion will assist in the entire setting up of company in Masdar City, & obtain the License in the shortest span of time.