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Client Alert
Number 931
14 September 2009
Latham & Watkins
Corporate Department
“The opening of
Masdar City Free
Zone provides
international
businesses
focused on clean
technology and
renewable energy
with easy access
to what promises
to be the leading
business centre
of its kind in the
Middle East.”
Masdar City Free Zone, Abu Dhabi’s
Center for Renewable Energy and
Clean Technology, is Open for Business
Masdar City Free Zone in Abu
Dhabi has recently begun accepting
applications from companies operating
in the renewable energy and clean
technology sectors. It is now possible
to incorporate companies, register
branches of foreign and local
companies, and carry on business in
Masdar City Free Zone. This is good
news for international companies
focused on these growing sectors in
the Middle East.
What is Masdar City?
Masdar City will be the world’s first
carbon-neutral, zero-waste city and
is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital
of the United Arab Emirates. Masdar
City aims to be a Silicon Valley
for clean, green and alternative
energy, a city where current and
future technologies will be funded,
researched, developed, tested and
implemented.
What is a Free Zone?
The UAE federal constitution, the
federal laws relating to free zones and
the powers reserved by