Corporate Intelligence & Beneficial Ownership Intelligence
DeepSearch Intelligence™ is a Corporate Intelligence and Beneficial Ownership Intelligence platform built for regulated institutions, financial organisations, law firms and corporate investigation teams that must verify who really owns their counterparties. It reconstructs UAE beneficial ownership and cross-border structures across 400+ million entities and 1.5 billion traceable corporate links, turning registry data, public sources and lawful third-party providers into decision-ready intelligence for onboarding, investment, compliance and investigative decisions.
Definitions
A beneficial owner is any natural person who derives economic benefit from an entity or holds a stake in it, whatever the size of that stake. The ultimate beneficial owner, or UBO, is the person at the top of the chain: under UAE rules and FATF-aligned frameworks, typically the individual who directly or indirectly owns or controls 25% or more of an entity's shares or voting rights, or who exercises control through other means, such as the power to appoint or remove the majority of directors.
The two concepts converge in practice. An AML beneficial owner review cannot stop at the shareholder register, because the registered holder may be a nominee, a holding company or a trustee. Compliance teams must unwind each layer to identify a natural person, and where no individual crosses the threshold, the analysis falls back to whoever exercises effective control, ultimately the senior management official.
Regulation
Sources
The platform draws on accessible official registers and data, available corporate information, public sources, authorised third-party providers, and lawful correlations between those sources across the GCC and global markets. Every data point in a finding is referenced to its source, so risk and compliance teams can show regulators not only what was found, but where it came from and when.
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DeepSearch Intelligence™ supports the teams whose onboarding, investment and investigative decisions depend on knowing exactly who sits behind a structure.
Ultimate beneficial owner KYC work follows a defined sequence, whether it supports onboarding, periodic review or an investigation. This is what turns a raw registry lookup into Beneficial Ownership Intelligence: a reconstructed, screened and documented view built to support a decision. The analysis proceeds through the levels of the corporate structure until the beneficial owner is identified or, where lawfully accessible sources do not allow a conclusive determination, until the identified structures, anomalies and information limitations are documented. The same sequence underpins the AML and KYC checks the platform supports, with a human analyst in the loop at every judgment point rather than an automated score.
Confirm the legal entity, its registration and its direct shareholders across the relevant registers.
Trace holding companies, offshore vehicles, nominees and trusts through multi-layer ownership reconstruction.
Apply the 25% and control tests, including advanced search on natural persons abroad, to establish the UBO or document where sources do not allow a conclusive determination.
Screen each person against sanctions, PEP and adverse media sources, then record the findings with a full audit trail.
Deliverable
Findings arrive online in real time across four report depth levels, from a fast onboarding check to a full enhanced due diligence file, each one decision-ready and referenced to source. Results can flow through high API integration into proprietary CRMs and case tools. The same Beneficial Ownership Intelligence base powers the wider compliance and risk management platform and its 12 activatable modules.
Verify the AML beneficial owner behind every corporate customer before the relationship opens, with evidence a supervisor can inspect.
Map the owners behind suppliers, agents and distributors across the UAE, GCC and MENA before they enter the supply chain.
Cross-border due diligence on targets and co-investors, mapping who sits behind the structure before capital commits.
Follow ownership links across jurisdictions to locate entities and holdings connected to a person of interest.
Give disputes and recovery teams a documented picture of counterparty ownership, prepared to a standard that withstands scrutiny.
Identify indirect exposure where a sanctioned or high-risk person sits behind an apparently clean legal entity.
A beneficial owner is any natural person who benefits economically from an entity or holds a stake in it. The ultimate beneficial owner is the individual at the end of the ownership chain who meets the ownership or control threshold, in the UAE typically 25% or more of shares or voting rights, or control exercised through other means.
Cabinet Resolution No. 109 of 2023, concerning the procedures for identifying the beneficial owner, repealed and replaced the previous Cabinet Resolution No. 58 of 2020. It requires entities in the UAE mainland and non-financial free zones to identify their beneficial owners, maintain the prescribed registers and report to the relevant registrar. Non-compliance with the applicable obligations may result in administrative penalties under the UAE regulatory framework in force, in addition to possible consequences concerning licensing, renewal and banking relationships.
No. The financial free zones operate their own beneficial ownership regimes. Groups with entities in DIFC or ADGM as well as the mainland face parallel obligations, which is one reason multi-jurisdictional structures require a cross-border view rather than a single registry lookup.
Coverage is global by design, spanning 400+ million entities and 1.5 billion traceable corporate links, with particular depth in the UAE, GCC and MENA cross-border environments where legacy, region-locked platforms are weakest. Advanced search extends to natural persons abroad.
UBO identification is a required component of customer due diligence. Once ownership is reconstructed, each identified person is screened against international sanctions lists, PEP databases and adverse media, and the outcome is documented so the institution can evidence its checks to supervisors such as the UAE Central Bank, DFSA or ADGM authorities.
No. DeepSearch Intelligence™ is an informational, human-in-the-loop support tool. It does not produce automated risk scores or certified legal judgments. It delivers structured, traceable and defensible findings that inform the institution's own decisions and, where needed, its counsel's work.
Reports are delivered online in real time across four depth levels, each with source references and a full audit trail with role-based access control. Customisable dynamic alerts monitor ownership changes on the entities you follow, and API integration carries results into proprietary CRMs and case management systems.
From registry data to Corporate Intelligence — ownership seen the way investigators and compliance specialists see it.
From the Dubai World Trade Center, the DeepSearch Intelligence™ team supports banks, sovereign investors, corporate groups and law firms across the UAE, GCC and MENA. Review how the platform performs in regulated environments, or use the demo request in the opening section to see a live UBO reconstruction.
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