ZimCompany › From the United Arab Emirates
You can register and run a Zimbabwean company from the United Arab Emirates without travelling, whether you are a Zimbabwean based there, an investor of any nationality, or a company registered in the Emirates opening a Zimbabwean entity. Ownership of a Zimbabwean company carries no residency or citizenship requirement.
Last verified 10 September 2026. Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration.
You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
Anyone registering a Zimbabwean company while they are in the United Arab Emirates. A Zimbabwean working in Dubai or Abu Dhabi who wants a company at the other end. An investor of any nationality based in the Emirates. A company registered in the Emirates that needs a Zimbabwean entity to contract, invoice, employ or bid.
The route is the same one every other country page describes, because what changes by country is how documents get certified, how money reaches us and when a person is at a desk. What decides your estimate is who will own the company, not where you happen to be sitting.
We need a clear scan of the identity document or passport and a proof of address for every person going on the register, and the registration documents of any company that will hold shares. What has to be certified, and by whom, depends on what is being registered and who is on the register, so we send you a document list with your estimate rather than a generic one up front. We do not publish a certification or embassy requirement we have not confirmed, because getting that wrong costs you a week and a courier fee.
We are not going to publish an Emirati attestation route we have not confirmed. Attestation chains differ by document type and by the authority that issued the document, and the honest answer is that we tell you exactly what to certify once we have seen what your filing actually needs.
Your quote carries a card pay link and is priced in United States dollars. Your bank converts at its own rate. Cards issued outside Zimbabwe are sometimes declined by the acquirer, and if that happens we send bank transfer details instead. You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost.
Zimbabwe is UTC+2 all year and does not change its clocks. The United Arab Emirates is UTC+4 all year and does not change its clocks either, so the gap is a constant two hours: Harare is two hours behind you, every day of the year.
Our working day, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Harare time, is 11:00 to 19:00 where you are. We aim to answer a message sent in your morning the same working day.
The rule is the same wherever you are reading this. A Private Business Corporation is held by members under section 252(1) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] and no section of the Act puts a residency duty on a member, which suits a single owner outside Zimbabwe. A Private Limited Company needs one director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 195(2) and a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 198(1), and it is the only route for a company registered outside Zimbabwe, because section 253(1) bars a body corporate from being a PBC member.
If you are not a Zimbabwean citizen, or the owner is a company registered outside Zimbabwe, you still get a price from the questionnaire rather than a sales call. A Private Limited Company must hold a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe, which you appoint yourself because we do not provide one yet, and where you have no Zimbabwe address we source a registered office provider for you as a one-off line. ZIDA registration appears as a note that carries no figure and is not added to your total. If the company will mainly work in one of the sectors Statutory Instrument 215 of 2025 reserves, the questionnaire asks, and that route starts with the foreign investor consultation instead of a price.
Yes, from anywhere in the United Arab Emirates, and you do not need to be Zimbabwean. Ownership carries no residency or citizenship requirement. Only a Private Limited Company needs a director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe, under section 195(2).
Two hours, all year. Zimbabwe is UTC+2 and the Emirates are UTC+4, and neither changes its clocks, so the gap never moves. Our 09:00 to 17:00 in Harare is 11:00 to 19:00 for you.
We tell you after the estimate, once we know what is being filed and who is on the register. We do not publish an attestation route we have not confirmed for your specific document, because acting on a wrong one costs you a week and a courier fee.
No. Quotes are priced and charged in US dollars and your bank converts. If your card is declined by the acquirer, we send bank transfer details.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration. The count starts on the day we hold your complete documents, wherever in the world you signed them, so the clock is not affected by which country you are in. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
ZimCompany registers and runs Zimbabwean companies for people and businesses anywhere in the world: owners living outside Zimbabwe, foreign investors, and companies registered elsewhere that need a Zimbabwean entity. Email support@lioncapventures.com or message +263 77 272 4514 on WhatsApp. We work 9:00 to 17:00 CAT, UTC+2 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd, registration 16326A02102024, Harare, Zimbabwe. Start with the questionnaire at https://zimcompany.com/start.
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