Business & government services
Company formation in Qatar and commercial registration
We set your business up from trade-name reservation to trade licence, then run the government transactions that follow — in cooperation with Qatar Toon, so your team never queues.
At a glance
- Authority
- Ministry of Commerce & Industry
- Covers
- CR and trade licence
- Transactions
- Justice, Interior, Municipality
- In cooperation with
- Qatar Toon
From trade name to trade licence
Setting up in Qatar is a chain of connected procedures, and a delay in one holds up everything after it. We handle the whole chain: trade-name reservation, articles of association, commercial registration, the trade licence, the establishment file and branch registration.
We then manage the amendments every business goes through: changes of partner or manager, changes of activity, changes of address, and renewal of the registration and licence on schedule.
A trade name is not a trademark
Here is a distinction many businesses miss, and it is an expensive one: reserving a trade name in the commercial register is not registering a trademark. The first allocates you a name in the companies register; the second gives you an exclusive right to use that name in the market as a brand.
You can hold a commercial registration in one name while somebody else registers the same name as a trademark — and find yourself barred from using your own name on your own products. Because we do both, we check both from the outset: is the name available to reserve, and is it available to register as a mark?
Businessmen and PRO services
Routine government transactions consume hours your team should not be spending: submission, follow-up, collection, attestation. We run them end to end, with one point of contact and a clear status at every stage.
That covers Ministry of Justice transactions — powers of attorney, contracts and attestations — establishment files and permits with the Ministry of Interior, municipality permits, signage approvals and their renewals, and the registration of usufruct rights and related documentation before the competent authorities.
One file, one set of deadlines
What costs companies most is rarely the procedure itself. It is a missed date: a licence that expired, a registration never renewed, a trademark that lapsed. Because we handle both intellectual property and government transactions, your deadlines sit in one place.
Trade-licence renewal, commercial-registration renewal, the establishment card, trademark renewals and patent annuities — all on one schedule that we track and remind you about before it falls due, not after.
Common questions
Does reserving a trade name protect my brand?
No. Reserving a name in the commercial register is a different procedure from registering a trademark. To protect the name as a brand in the market it has to be registered as a trademark with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Do you handle CR amendments and licence renewals?
Yes — changes of activity, partners, managers and address, renewal of the registration and licence, and the establishment file, with every date docketed and followed up before it falls due.
Who carries out the government transactions?
Government services are delivered in cooperation with Qatar Toon, and your point of contact stays with us from the start of the file to the end of it.
Related services
Shall we start?
Tell us what you need to protect and we will set out the route and the risk before a fee is spent. Initial consultations are confidential and without obligation.