Investment Laws Information
UAE investment laws set the legal framework for both foreign direct investment in the onshore jurisdiction and investment in the federation's extensive free-zone ecosystem. The current federal Foreign Direct Investment regime liberalised foreign ownership across most economic activities, removed the historic local-ownership requirement for many onshore companies, and identified strategic sectors in which approvals or restrictions continue to apply. Public-private partnership legislation provides the procurement and contractual framework for federal infrastructure investment.
The texts collected here include the federal FDI law and successor instruments, the public-private partnership law, the regulatory frameworks of the major free zones, and sectoral investment instruments covering banking, insurance, telecommunications, and energy. Read together they map the routes available to investors structuring activity in or through the UAE. For corporate-form rules see UAE Commercial Laws; for the broader federal catalogue see UAE laws in English.