Oman occupies a deliberate position on the map of the Gulf: politically stable, geographically poised on the Arabian Sea outside the Strait of Hormuz, and anchored by a chain of deep-water ports and free zones at Duqm, Sohar, and Salalah that look as much toward East Africa and South Asia as toward its Gulf neighbors. For an international group, that combination of stability and logistics reach is the jurisdiction's defining appeal.
What has changed is the openness of the regime. Under the Vision 2040 reform agenda, the Foreign Capital Investment Law now permits up to 100% foreign ownership across most sectors, removing the historic local-participation requirement that shaped earlier market-entry structures. Oman is consequently used for logistics and trade platforms, energy and petrochemicals, manufacturing and downstream industry, and the holding and operating layers that sit behind them, often paired with a wider Gulf holding vehicle for succession and treaty purposes.
As elsewhere in the Gulf, the headline ownership liberalization sits alongside a maturing compliance and licensing framework: an anti-money-laundering regime aligned to FATF standards, beneficial-ownership reporting, and free-zone and special-economic-zone authorities with their own establishment and incentive rules. We build any Omani structure with that framework in view and coordinate it with locally admitted Oman counsel, who carry the regulated relationship and provide the substantive legal advice. These are educational jurisdiction facts; they are not, and should not be read as, tax or legal advice on a particular matter.