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Company formation process 
First Step is the Initial Commercial Registration (CR without license).

With the guidance of this service, you can register your business as a commercial entity without the need for a business license. This will enable you to take care of preliminary business establishment tasks like renting space for your business, contacting banks and vendors, securing a commercial name, and any other tasks that don’t require obtaining a business license. Please be aware that you cannot practice the activity with your commercial registration without a license unless you first secure the required business permits. After receiving your commercial registration, you can seek to get a license to conduct the required activity or activities. The commercial registration without a license is only valid for a year, so please be aware of that.

If you hold a Bahraini CPR: Getting an advanced e-key is a prerequisite for applying for this service. To sign up for an advanced e-key.

If you don’t have a Bahraini CPR, you can apply through the Commercial Registration Portal “Sijilat” by working with a professional body that is registered in Bahrain.

Details. 
Necessary Details
When applying, make sure that the following details are available.
Names of the Board of Directors, Authorized Personnel, and Partners
Names of partners, authorized individuals, and the board of directors’ ID numbers
Nationality of the Board of Directors, Authorized Personnel, and Partners
Partners’ and the Board of Directors’ phone numbers and emails
The suggested business name
Legal Type of the Company and Planned Business Operations
Ownership structure of capital and shares 

• Company financial year 
• Financial year end* 
• Not necessary for individual establishments, but necessary for all categories of legal businesses.
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  – Required Records
  – Authorization letter, if the applicant is a member of a professional body registered with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (which is our company), or, if the partner or owner is a corporate partner, submitted by a staff member registered with the corporate partner.
  If the applicant is not a related person, an official power of attorney must be submitted; if the applicant is a partner, no document must be submitted.

Note: In order for the applicant to submit the application, a power of attorney must be given if the applicant is a director or an authorized signatory without being a partner.
Passports for partners, board members, and approved individuals
Partners resolution for WLL or board resolution for BSC & BSC (closed) authorizing the company’s establishment in Bahrain (if not supplied at the commercial registration issue stage)   An attested board decision, EGM, or AGM sanctioning the company’s establishment in Bahrain (optional at this time)  
Attested copy of Memorandum and Articles of Association (M&AA) (Optional at this step) * 
Attested copy of Commercial Registration (Optional at this stage)
If the board director, partner, or authorized person is employed in the private sector at the time the application is submitted, a letter of no objection from the workplace is required.

Note: Employees of the public sector are not permitted to form private businesses, although they are permitted to hold stock in open and closed joint stock companies as well as limited liability corporations without holding any executive positions within them.

The following information is required if the business that is going to be incorporated is a branch of a foreign company.

approval from the main business to establish a branch in Bahrain (attested)
the attested copy of the company’s CR.

A certified copy of the articles of association and any other revisions made by the company.
Branch manager’s power of attorney, (attested).
Guarantee letter for the branch (attested).
* If a Bahraini firm is the partner, it is not necessary to be attested.