---
title: "United Arab Emirates — corporate ownership & UBO data"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/ae
jurisdiction: AE
region: Middle East
secrecy_jurisdiction: true
source: WhiteIntel — Corporate Ownership & Sanctions Intelligence
---

# United Arab Emirates — corporate ownership & UBO data

The ADGM (Abu Dhabi) and DIFC (Dubai) financial free-zone company registries, with LEI reference data.

**Data held here:** Free-zone company registries, LEI.

## Coverage

**Tier:** On-demand · **scope:** subset.

Leak & sanctions subset — high-risk United Arab Emirates entities are held now; the full registry is procured on demand. Record depth varies by source.

**Covered — unlocked on request, not absent.** Premium United Arab Emirates records are pulled from source and delivered inside a paid dossier: you pay for the specific company, we procure the live record on request. An empty risk list below means none has surfaced in the free window yet — the record is available as a paid dossier, not missing.

## Sources feeding this jurisdiction

- **ADGM** (Financial-centre company registry) — https://whiteintel.dev/sources/adgm
- **DIFC** (Financial-centre company registry) — https://whiteintel.dev/sources/difc
- **GLEIF** (Legal Entity Identifiers + relationships) — https://whiteintel.dev/sources/gleif

## Highest-risk entities registered in United Arab Emirates

No entity registered in AE currently sits in the top of the SnitchScore ranking. That is not a clean bill — it means none has surfaced in the bounded risk window yet. Search the corpus for United Arab Emirates entities directly: https://whiteintel.dev/search.

## Trace ownership through United Arab Emirates (agent-callable)

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Search the corpus — https://whiteintel.dev/search · all jurisdictions — https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions · sanctioned & high-risk owners — https://whiteintel.dev/sanctioned-owners.

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_Markdown-for-agents twin of the WhiteIntel United Arab Emirates coverage hub. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/ae. An absent edge means "not yet observed", not "does not exist"._