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The Oman Market Entry Handbook by Christophe Robeyst — front cover

New — 2027 Edition

Everything you need to know before you commit capital to Oman — and the things nobody tells you until it is too late.

Oman offers 100% foreign ownership, a restored investment-grade rating and ports outside the Strait of Hormuz. It also has 123 activities closed to foreign investors, an activity code that quietly governs your banking and your hiring, and an agency law that can trap you in a distribution deal you cannot exit.

This handbook is written from casework, not from brochures.

220Pages
20Chapters
Aug 2026Current to
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Who this is for

It is written for the person who has to make the decision and then live with it — not for a research file.

Read this if you are

  • An owner or director of a small or mid-sized company weighing Oman against the UAE, Saudi Arabia or staying home
  • Already committed, and now facing registration, capital, premises, a bank account and a labour file
  • Selling into Oman through an agent or distributor and uneasy about what you have signed
  • Preparing to bid public tenders and hearing "In-Country Value" for the first time

It will not help you if

  • You want a country brochure. Chapter 2 is titled The Honest Case Against Oman, and it means it
  • You are looking for a shortcut around the reserved list or the Omanisation quota. There isn't one
  • You need legal advice on a live dispute — that is a lawyer's job, and the book says so
A formation fee is earned at the moment the certificate is issued. Almost everything that decides whether a foreign company survives in Oman happens after that moment.
From the introduction

What is inside

Four parts, twenty chapters. Cost tables in rials, a 90-day entry plan, and a document checklist you can hand to your finance team.

Part One

Decide

  1. Oman in 2026: what changed, and why it matters to you
  2. The honest case against Oman
  3. Where the money is: a sector-by-sector opportunity map
  4. Money on the table: Vision 2040 funding and co-investment
  5. Six ways in: choosing your entry model

Part Two

Establish

  1. The legal frame: foreign ownership and the reserved list
  2. Choosing your vehicle
  3. The activity code
  4. Registration, step by step
  5. Capital, grades, premises and licences
  6. Free zones and special economic zones
  7. Opening the bank account

Part Three

Operate

  1. Tax
  2. Employing people: the labour law in practice
  3. Omanisation, visas and the closed-professions list
  4. What it actually costs to run

Part Four

Win

  1. Selling in Oman: culture, cycles and credibility
  2. Government tenders and In-Country Value
  3. Agents, distributors and the agencies law trap
  4. Risk, continuity and exit
Christophe Robeyst

Why we wrote it

Marhaba Business Solutions exists because of a gap we kept meeting. Foreign companies arriving in Oman could find plenty of firms willing to file their registration, and almost nobody willing to tell them what happens next — which activity code will quietly close their bank account, why the Omanisation percentage on their licence is not the one they were quoted, what an agency agreement actually costs to exit.

This handbook is that missing conversation, written down. It is the same material we work through with clients, published in full and free, because a client who understands the process is a better client to work with.

Christophe Robeyst is the founder of Marhaba Business Solutions in Muscat and the author of Stop Buying Tech. Belgian, based in Oman, with thirty years of operational experience across Europe, Latin America and the Gulf.

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