Company Registration & Licensing

In most sectors, yes — but some activities carry ownership limits or need additional approval. What decides it is the activity you actually carry out, not the industry label on the company name.

No — and this is the single most common cause of rework. Registration gives you the legal entity. Whether you can carry out a given activity still depends on sector licensing, registered scope and premises conditions.

Work backwards from the activities, not from the industry name. List what you will actually do — take payment, invoice, import, employ, deliver a regulated service — and map each to its requirement. That map also tells you which approvals need a head start.

BOI is a separate project route, not a badge added to a company. It brings commitments around investment scale, employment and how you operate, and a longer approval cycle. Whether it fits depends on your project shape and expansion plan.

Usually it is not a missing page. Repeat requests normally mean the described activity, the entity form and the supporting documents do not line up, so each review surfaces another inconsistency. Realigning the three beats submitting again.

It can be, provided you know what you are taking on: whether licences remain valid, whether there are tax or employment legacies, and whether any contractual obligations are outstanding. Any one of those repays the saved time with interest.

It is a statutory role, not an optional admin service. It maintains and files statutory records, and the consequence of leaving it vacant or dormant is penalties rather than untidy paperwork.

The local signatory’s authority needs to be explicit in the authorisation documents, particularly for payments, leases and employment. Assuming the country manager can sign anything is a risk: a counterparty will rely on apparent authority, not your internal understanding.

A change of registered address pulls a chain of filings: statutory records, tax, some sector licences and bank records, several of which are tied to premises conditions. List what is affected before the move, not after.

It turns on whether you employ locally, receive payment locally, or occupy premises. Once you hire or take payment in-country, an entity is normally required; a purely short-term project may not need one on day one.