What We Do

Five Disciplines. One Practice.

Company formation. Legal counsel. Real estate. Technology. Strategy. Five practices, one firm — built around what a foreign business actually needs in Iraq.

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Iraq rewards companies that understand it. Most foreign firms arrive trying to manage five different advisors at once. We are the firm that brings the five into one room — and stays in the room with you.

A Multidisciplinary Practice

What it means to have one partner, not five.

Tigris Gate did not start as five practices — it became five practices. We began in 2005 in logistics. Then a foreign client needed a contract drafted. Then another asked us to handle a tax inspection. Then a third needed an office and a server room. We added what was being asked for. By the time we looked back, we had become five practices serving the same kind of client, from the same building, on the same week.

Today the work is built around foreign businesses operating in Iraq — companies entering the market, contractors delivering on the ground, investors structuring exposure, multinationals expanding across the country. Each one gets one point of contact, one coordinated plan, and one firm to hold accountable when something goes wrong. Especially then.

The Five Disciplines

What we deliver, end to end.

Each pillar below works on its own. Together they cover the situations foreign companies actually arrive with.

Market Entry & Establishment

From first inquiry to operational entity, structured for the Iraqi regulatory environment.

Setting up in Iraq is not one decision; it is closer to thirty, in a particular order, at offices that will see your file again and again. A misstep early adds weeks later. We have done this enough since 2005 to know the sequence, the documents, and the people in the room. From the first regulatory mapping to your first issued invoice, you work with one team, on one schedule, with one person to call when you want a clear answer.

Company formation and incorporation
Foreign branch registration
Corporate structuring and shareholding
Sector licensing and permits
Initial regulatory clearances

Legal & Regulatory

Counsel that holds up under Iraqi practice, not just Iraqi text.

You can read Iraqi law in translation. You will be missing about half of the picture. The other half is in how a particular judge has been ruling for the last three years, in which articles a tax assessor enforces strictly and which she lets pass, in what a contract clause has to say to be respected by an Iraqi court — not just to be technically valid in one. Our advice carries both: the statute and the practice.

Commercial contracts and negotiation
Tax and compliance advisory
Employment and labor matters
Intellectual property protection
Litigation and dispute resolution

Real Estate & Sites

Industrial land, agricultural plots, and build-to-suit — sourced, vetted, secured.

A piece of land in Iraq can have a registry deed that is perfectly clean and a story that is not — a tribal claim that never made it to court, a district where some buyers face friction the others do not, a sectoral restriction applied in some provinces and ignored in others. We do the slow work of surfacing all of it before you commit. Once you decide to move, we handle the acquisition end to end.

Industrial and agricultural land sourcing
Office and commercial leasing
Site due diligence and title verification
Acquisition coordination and closing
Build-to-suit project oversight

Digital & Technology

Systems built for the Iraqi context — not generic templates ported in.

The ERP your German subsidiary runs will not file an Iraqi tax return. Most accounting platforms imported from Dubai do not talk to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance's portal. We build the layer that does — local enough to satisfy Iraqi authorities, structured enough to feed your headquarters dashboard the same numbers it expects, in the same format.

Project accounting and ERP systems
Electronic archiving and document management
IT infrastructure deployment
Network configuration and integrations
Custom software adapted to local workflows

Strategic Advisory

Decisions made on real ground, not on country reports written abroad.

Most country reports about Iraq are written in Beirut or Dubai by analysts who visit twice a year. They are not wrong, exactly. They are written one level above where the deals actually happen. We have been at the deal level since 2005 — which means we know which ministry has a director who answers his phone this month, and which one had its competent staff transferred in the last reshuffle.

Feasibility studies and market assessment
Risk mapping and mitigation
Partner identification and introduction
Sector intelligence and benchmarking
Ongoing strategic counsel

Why Tigris Gate

Three things that change how the work is done.

Coordination does not happen because you have multiple departments. It happens only if you designed for it from the start.

Cross-Disciplinary by Design

Our founding partners are an engineer-programmer-lawyer, a senior litigator, and a software architect. Most of the staff sits within five doors of each other. When the contract drafter has a question for the engineer, she walks over. There is no email chain to manage, no second firm to brief, no schedule to sync. This is not a workflow we set out to market — it is the only one that works for clients building real things in Iraq.

Iraq-Native, Not Iraq-Visiting

We are an Iraqi firm whose clients happen to be foreign. Our team is from Baghdad. Our regional director in Basra is from Basra. Our field coordinators in Erbil are from Erbil. Local knowledge is not something we sell — it is the only kind of knowledge we have, and the kind your situation actually needs.

Quiet, Long-Term Counsel

We have served foreign clients in Iraq since 2005. Most of those still in business in Iraq are still our clients. We do not name them in our materials. They will not name us in theirs. That is the agreement, and it is the reason both sides are still here.

Why Tigris Gate?

In the seventh century before our era, in the city of Nineveh on the banks of the Tigris, an Assyrian king commanded that every text known to humanity — laws, medicine, astronomy, literature, omens, mathematics — be copied onto clay tablets and gathered into a single library. Tens of thousands of those tablets survived, recovered from beneath the ruins. The Library of Ashurbanipal was the first attempt in human history to bring every discipline a civilization needed under one roof.

Twenty-six centuries later, on the same land, we ask a quieter version of that question.

What does a foreign company really need under one roof in Iraq today?

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Whether you're thinking about Iraq for the first time, or you already have operations and want a better advisor — we'd be glad to meet you.

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