A share transfer runs in a fixed sequence: authority approval, then attestation, then registration and the licence amendment. Done out of order it does not complete — and in most cases you start again.
Nearly every page on this subject lists the documents. Almost none says what order things happen in, which is where transfers actually stall.
Sometimes the answer is a new company rather than an inherited one.
For a mainland LLC, on the date the transfer is recorded in the commercial register — not on signing, and not on attestation. The gap matters if anything happens in between.
They can redeem the stake instead. Article 80 gives each partner 30 days from the date the manager is notified of the agreed price to request redemption. If the 30 days pass with nobody exercising it, the seller is free to dispose of the stake.
Buying shares means buying the company as it stands, including what it owes. This is the case for doing diligence rather than trusting a clean-looking licence.
No. Residency tied to the company needs handling as its own step.
Not necessarily. Each free zone runs its own procedure under its own companies regulations, and those are not covered here. The sequence above is the mainland statutory one.
The amendment that follows the transfer — and the attestation route that changed in 2025.
A transfer changes the beneficial owner register, with 15 days to report it.
When the answer is closing cleanly rather than selling.
It happens when the register step is missed. Tell us where you are in the sequence and we will tell you what is left before the shares have actually moved.