The UBO / Real Beneficiary register

What you will be able to do when you finish: name the two registers UAE law requires and the third disclosure that lives inside one of them, set the threshold and the statutory durations, create and activate a register, classify a person under the Article 5 cascade and record why, handle a joint holding without destroying it, reconstruct what the register said on a date years ago, log an authority request with its legal basis, and read the penalty schedule the way it is actually written.

Who this is for. You are the owner, company secretary, compliance officer or advisor who has to keep a UAE company's Real Beneficiary Register. You do not need to be a lawyer. You do need to know who owns and who controls the company, and you need to be willing to write down why.

How to follow along. Every screen named here is quoted from the Odoone UBO Register user guide, label for label. The worked example — an Abu Dhabi company called Al Mirfa Contracting LLC — was built for this course rather than lifted from a live database, so every percentage is yours to check rather than a number to trust. Your own structure will differ, and that is the point: this course teaches the reasoning, because the module deliberately does not do the reasoning for you.

This content is general information for UAE businesses, not tax, legal, or financial advice. Rules change and cases differ — speak to a qualified advisor about your situation. Every legal figure below was verified against its primary source on 18 August 2026, and the instrument is named beside it so you can re-check it yourself.

One warning before you start. This register holds dates and places of birth, home addresses and passport numbers of named individuals. Treat it the way you treat payroll, not the way you treat a customer list — Lesson 3 shows how access is enforced, and Lesson 7 shows how to answer an authority without over-disclosing.