Company liquidation in Qatar
We will close a Qatari company on the calendar the Commercial Companies Law has set since 2021: a call to creditors of at least 45 days, repeated after 20, and the register cleared.
Call to creditors
Вызов кредиторов
45 days at least
не меньше 45 дней
Second notice
Второе извещение
after 20 days
через 20 дней
Each branch out
Каждый филиал
300 QAR
300 QAR
Register stays on
Регистрация жива
500 QAR a year
500 QAR в год
When you need company liquidation in Qatar
The call runs at least 45 days
Every debt of the company falls due the moment it is dissolved, and the liquidator calls the creditors in. The law sets the floor for that call at 45 days from the notice.
You publish twice, not once
Twenty days into the period the same notice goes out again. One publication is not enough in Qatar, and a closing built on a single announcement is built on the wrong rule.
Employees are paid before the State
The order of payment is written into the law: staff first, then amounts owed to the State, then the landlord's rent, then everything else by its own priority.
The register costs nothing to clear
Deleting the main commercial registration is free, and so is the commercial permit. Branches are the exception: each one carries its own fee on the way out.
Three years is the outer limit
A Qatari liquidation may not last longer than three years. Beyond that it takes a decision of the competent court or of the minister, which is not a formality.
What you get
- The dissolution decision registered and published in two dailies
- A liquidator appointed, with remuneration fixed in the document
- Both notices to creditors out, 20 days apart
- Debts paid in the statutory order, employees first
- The final account approved and the registration struck off
What is required to liquidate a Qatari company
The single number people quote about closing a company in Qatar is usually out of date. The claims period was rewritten in 2021: the notice now has to give creditors at least 45 days and be repeated 20 days in, where the original text gave 75 days and one repetition after a month.
Our page on company liquidation covers how the procedure looks under other laws, and everything else we handle locally is listed on the Qatar page.
What has to exist before the liquidator starts
- A dissolution decision, entered in the commercial register and published in two local daily papers, at least one of them in Arabic.
- A liquidator appointed by the partners or the general assembly by the ordinary majority, with remuneration set in the appointment document or else by the court.
- Publication of the appointment itself, because until it is published neither the appointment nor the chosen method binds anyone outside the company.
- The words "under liquidation" carried clearly alongside the company name.
- An inventory of assets and liabilities, drawn up with the auditor within three months of the liquidator taking office.
Who gets paid first
The people who worked there
Amounts due to the company's employees come before everything else once liquidation costs and the liquidator's fees are covered.
The State
Public dues rank second. In a closing with a thin balance sheet this is the line where the arithmetic usually stops working.
The landlord
Rent owed to the owner of any property leased to the company has its own place in the queue, ahead of ordinary creditors.
Everyone else
The rest follow their own priorities under the applicable laws, and disputed debts are set aside rather than paid or ignored.
What the closing costs at the register
| Action | Fee |
|---|---|
| Deleting the main commercial registration | 0 QAR |
| Deleting each branch registration | 300 QAR |
| Deleting the commercial permit | 0 QAR |
| Noting any change in the register | 300 QAR |
| Keeping the registration alive meanwhile | 500 QAR a year |
Creditors who never come forward do not simply disappear from the file. The value of their debts is deposited with the treasury of the competent court until the owners appear or the claims lapse, and money for disputed debts is set aside in the same way. That is also why the final account matters: liquidation ends only when the partners, the general assembly or the court approve it, and only then does the liquidator ask for the registration to be struck off.
Sources: the 45 days, the repetition after 20, the order of payment, the inventory and the three-year limit — articles 303–321 of the Commercial Companies Law No. 11 of 2015 as amended by Law No. 8 of 2021; the fees — Minister's Decision No. 60 of 2024 and the Single Window.
Stages of work
Deciding and publishing the dissolution
The partners or the general assembly take the decision to dissolve. It goes into the commercial register and into two local daily papers, one of which has to be in Arabic.
Appointing the liquidator
The same meeting names the liquidator by ordinary majority and fixes the remuneration. If it does not, the court sets the fee; if the court ordered the closing, it appoints as well.
Publishing the appointment
The appointment decision, any limits on the liquidator's powers and the agreed method are published the way an amendment to the company's documents would be.
The first call to creditors
Registered letters go to known creditors. Where creditors or their addresses are unknown, the call is published in two dailies and on the company's website if it has one.
The second call, twenty days in
The notice is republished once twenty days of the period have run. This is the step most often missed, and missing it puts the whole call in doubt.
Inventory, collection, payment
Within three months the liquidator and the auditor draw up the inventory. Debts owed to the company are collected, assets sold, and creditors paid in the order the law fixes.
Final account and strike-off
The liquidator submits the final account for approval. Once it is approved the end of liquidation is published, and only then is the registration struck off the register.
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