Protect Your Wealth & Plan Your Succession.
Protect Your Wealth & Plan Your Succession.
Your wealth deserves the right foundation. Our advisors take the time to understand your assets, your goals, and your family to help you build a structure designed for long-term wealth protection and succession planning.
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Why Set Up a Foundation in the UAE?
International Credibility
RAK ICC carries genuine weight internationally. Your foundation will be taken seriously by banks, legal teams, and institutions across the globe.
Structured Your Way
A UAE foundation gives you full control over how your assets are held, managed, and distributed, during your lifetime and beyond.
Discreet by Design
The UAE does not require public disclosure of foundation beneficiaries or asset details. What you have built stays between you and those you choose to tell.
Total Privacy
Once assets are placed into a foundation, they sit outside your personal estate, making them significantly harder to reach in the event of litigation or disputes.
Generational Continuity
Avoid the delays, legal battles, and uncertainty that come with an unstructured estate. A foundation ensures your wishes are carried out exactly as intended.
Zero Tax, Full Flexibility
Structure and distribute your wealth in a zero income tax environment, with complete freedom over how your foundation operates and who benefits.
Foundation Services, Structured Around You
As an elite partner of RAK ICC, we work directly with the authority to ensure your foundation is structured and registered correctly.
A RAK ICC Foundation is a separate legal entity that holds and administers your assets entirely according to your wishes. Unlike a company, a RAK ICC Foundation has no shareholders. It exists purely to carry out the objectives you set for it, whether that is protecting family wealth, holding business interests, or ensuring your estate passes to the right people without dispute or delay.
- No public register of founders, council members, or beneficiaries
- No paid up capital requirement
- Founder retains full control during their lifetime
- Registered and operational within 3 working days
- No audit or accounting filing requirements
- Suitable for both charitable and non-charitable purposes
- Assets sit outside your personal estate from day one
- Suitable for Muslims and non-Muslims alike
What’s the Best Foundation for You?
| RAK ICC | ADGM | DIFC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Privacy focused individuals and families seeking a cost effective, flexible structure | Families seeking institutional grade governance under English common law | Families requiring the highest level of global recognition and credibility |
| Privacy | Highest. No publicly accessible register | Strong. Founder details confidential | Moderate. Some details publicly accessible |
| Governance | Straightforward and flexible | Robust, modelled on international best practice | Comprehensive, most regulated in the UAE |
| Notable feature | No UAE asset required to qualify | Preferred jurisdiction for digital asset holding | Can directly hold Dubai freehold property |
Three Steps to Your Foundation
A streamlined process designed for clarity and efficiency
Consultation
Before we recommend anything, we take the time to understand your assets, your family, and your intentions. The right foundation structure is built around your life, not a template.
Designing the Right Structure
We design your foundation framework around your specific goals, whether that is protecting family wealth, holding business interests, or ensuring a clear succession plan is in place for generations to come.
Registration and Handover
We manage the entire registration process with your chosen jurisdiction through to completion. You receive your foundation documents with full clarity on how your structure works and what comes next.
Why Choose A&A Associate
Loyal Clientele
Over 25,000 clients trust us to set up their foundations seamlessly and securely.
Deep Industry Experience
Our specialists master jurisdiction-specific rules, removing uncertainty so your foundation is established correctly from day one.
Hassle-free Process
From your initial discovery call to final approval, our experts handle the heavy lifting and guide you through every step.
Custom-Designed Services
We listen closely to your goals and custom-design your foundation to align perfectly with your unique needs.
Transparent Assistance
Enjoy total visibility throughout your journey, keeping you in full control of every decision.
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Your Wealth
Work with experienced advisors to protect what you’ve built and plan effectively for what comes next.
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Secure Your Family’s Wealth with a UAE Foundation
As an elite partner of RAK ICC, our foundation specialists guide you from the first consultation to registration and handover, so your assets are protected and passed on exactly as you intend.
- RAK ICC, ADGM and DIFC foundations compared for you
- Registered and operational within 3 working days
- No public register of founders or beneficiaries
- One dedicated advisor from consultation to handover