New to ADGM? A First-Week Checklist for Newly Licensed Firms

Getting your ADGM licence feels like the finish line, then quietly becomes the starting line. The first week is when you turn a registration into a working business. Here's the checklist we hand newly licensed clients.

1. Confirm your registered office is in order

Your address should already be in place — it's generally a condition of the licence — but week one is for confirming everything tied to it: correspondence reaches you, your workspace is ready, and the address is consistent across all records. On a desk or office with us, this is largely handled; just confirm it.

2. Open your corporate bank account

Often the longest pole in the tent — start immediately. UAE account opening involves due diligence and documentation, so the sooner you begin, the sooner you transact. Have incorporation documents, licence and structure details ready.

3. Sort visas and the establishment card

Begin the establishment card and visa process for staff or yourself. Remember the allocation: up to 3 visas per desk on a tech startup licence, 2 for a standard company, or 1 per 8 sqm of office. Starting in week one keeps onboarding on track.

4. Get your workspace genuinely operational

Beyond compliance, make sure you have a productive place to work — connectivity, meeting-room access for hosting clients, day-to-day infrastructure running. If you're regulated, confirm your private office meets the substance and record-storage expectations. Being licensed but not set up to work is a common limbo; week one is when you leave it.

5. Update the outside world

Put your new ADGM address and entity details on your website, contracts, invoices and email signatures, and tell key clients and partners you're now established in ADGM — it's a credibility milestone worth using.

If the office is the box still unticked

That's the one we make easy — and on Al Reem it's affordable: a compliant registered address and a ready-to-use workspace from AED 1,200/month, versus about AED 3,500 on Al Maryah.

See desk vs private office and the cheapest way to get an ADGM address.

Talk to MY Coworking

Tick "office" off your first-week list in one call — a compliant registered address and a ready-to-use workspace on Al Reem from AED 1,200/month, operational from day one.

We're on Al Reem Island — 2312 Addax Tower, City of Lights, Abu Dhabi. Email contact@mycoworking.ae to book a tour or get a same-day quote.