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    Company Name Reservation Rules and Guidelines 2017

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    Company Name Reservation Rules and Guidelines 2017

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    The document provides guidelines for reserving company names in the UAE. Names cannot contradict the company's activity, use restricted terms, be similar to other companies or brands, or contain obscene, religious, or politically sensitive words. Operating names have additional rules and some words require special approval.

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    The document provides guidelines for reserving company names in the UAE. Names cannot contradict the company's activity, use restricted terms, be similar to other companies or brands, or contain obscene, religious, or politically sensitive words. Operating names have additional rules and some words require special approval.

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    Company Name Reservation Rules and Guidelines 2017

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    The document provides guidelines for reserving company names in the UAE. Names cannot contradict the company's activity, use restricted terms, be similar to other companies or brands, or contain obscene, religious, or politically sensitive words. Operating names have additional rules and some words require special approval.

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    Company Name Reservation Rules and Guidelines

     The name should not contradict the activity, however It`s preferred to reflect it.
     The name should not be reserved if it is protected/has copyright against it.
     NOC/Commercial License Copy/Share Certificate/Valid Franchise Agreement, etc… is to be provided if
    the proposed name is protected or locally registered.
     The word “Commodities” can be granted only if the company trades in more than one commodity or
    practices General Trading activity. Moreover if the proposed name is specifying the activity; i.e. “ABCD
    Agri/Agro Commodities”, then the name can be reserved.
     UAE, Emirates, City`s names, Districts, and Airports Codes of UAE are restricted.
     Names of continents, countries, and cities are not acceptable; however, nationalities can be used in
    the company name; i.e. “European, African, Italian…etc.”
     The terms “ME” or “CO” are not allowed for individually owned companies unless they come as part
    of a word; i.e. “LCME Trading DMCC”, “ATCO Services DMCC”... etc.
     Some words will require a specific approval to proceed with the company name reservation process;
    i.e. The word “Capital” requires approval from the Central Bank, “FX” requires approval from
    DGCX…etc.
     The trade name cannot start with "International" "Middle East" "Global" etc... Nor can it be
    translated.
     The name should not have obscene or indecent words, and should not be offending to the general
    public even if it is a person’s name.
     The name should not indicate God’s names or his divine attributes neither in Arabic nor in English; i.e.
    Al Qader, Al Aleem, Al Razzaq…etc.
     Individual first names of Arabic origin can be used if the name belongs to one of the proposed
    shareholders. Family names would be used only if the first name is included and must be a name of
    one of the proposed shareholders.
     Company’s names are phonetically translated not literally.
     The names must not be similar as government`s organizations names or it`s abbreviations.
     The names must not contain any indication of global political organizations, religious sectarian; i.e.
    FBI, Vatican...etc.
     Clients are advised to use Google to search their proposed name to ensure that it does not belong to
    others.
     Adding an Operating Name is an available option for the companies to enable them to use their brand
    or short name and to make it legal.
     Operating Names should not carry any restricted terminologies.
     The Operating Name must not contradict it`s company`s name and must comply with all above rules.
     The name should not fully or partially contain any of the local of global active brands or government
    projects such as: Toyota, Emaar, KFC…etc.
     The name would not be granted if it is similar to DED/Local active company that performs similar
    activities.
     Subsidiary`s Name must not be as similar to its parent company`s name, Legal Type and Suffix are not
    considered as part of the name, and must comply with all above rules.
     Joint Venture`s Name can be reserved as similar to its parent company`s name upon NOC and/ or
    Justification Letter whichever is needed based on the particular case.
     Branch`s name must be the exact similar of its parent company`s unless it contains restricted words
    (Legal type not included).
     DMCC reserves the right to update/change the list of restricted names/rules without prior notice.

    DMCC Restricted Names List


    Subsidiary & Joint
    New Company Branch Remarks
    Venture
    Corporate / Corporation /
    Corporation / Corp. Must be the
    Corp.
    exact name
    Dubai Dubai
    of Parent By exception only with
    UAE UAE company`s approval from the Executive
    name Council
    Emirate/s Emirate/s
    Restricted to companies with
    Finance/ Financial or similar Finance/ Financial or similar
    regulated financial activities
    FZE FZE
    Investment Investment
    Offshore Offshore
    Capital/Cap Capital/Cap
    Holding Holding Restricted to holding activity
    Establishment / Est Establishment / Est
    Ventures Ventures
    FZC FZC
    FX FX
    Forex Forex
    Partners Partners
    Revenue Revenue
    Onshore Onshore
    INC (Legal Type) INC (Legal Type)
    Engineering Engineering
    Publishing Publishing
    LTD (Legal Type) LTD (Legal Type)
    Limited Limited
    Trust Trust
    Expo Expo
    Marina Marina
    GCC GCC
    DXB DXB
    Asset Management Asset Management
    GMBH (Legal Type) GMBH (Legal Type)
    PLC (Legal Type) PLC (Legal Type)
    Islamic Islamic
    Incorporation Incorporation
    2020 2020
    FZCO FZCO
    Fund Fund
    Charity Charity
    Credit Credit
    Pay Pay
    Profit Profit
    Exchange Exchange
    Government/Gov. Government/Gov.
    TAX / VAT TAX / VAT
    Bonds Bonds

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