Chinese Legal Translation Services in Dubai

Dubai is the main commercial bridge between China and the Gulf, and the paperwork follows the trade. Chinese-language documents reach us from manufacturers setting up trading entities in the free zones, from families completing residency files, and from companies in disputes where the underlying contract was drafted in Chinese. In every case, a UAE authority will work from a certified Arabic version stamped by a translator accredited with the UAE Ministry of Justice.

Chinese legal translation into Arabic asks something specific of the translator: Chinese contracts and official records are dense, compact and highly conventional, and the same characters carry different force depending on the document class. Machine output is fluent enough to look right and wrong often enough to lose a case.

• Business licences (营业执照) and company registration records used for free-zone and mainland incorporation.
• Articles of association, shareholder resolutions and board minutes.
• Commercial contracts — supply, distribution, agency and manufacturing agreements, and their annexes and price schedules.
• Notarial certificates (公证书) issued by Chinese notarial offices for birth, marriage, kinship, single status and no-criminal-record.
• Household register (hukou, 户口簿) extracts and identity documents used to prove family relationships.
• Academic records — degree certificates, graduation certificates and transcripts for equivalency.
• Court and arbitration documents — judgments, awards, pleadings and evidence bundles.
• Customs, shipping and inspection documents supporting trade disputes and claims.

The Department of Economy and Tourism and free-zone authorities such as DMCC, JAFZA and Dubai South, UAE courts and arbitration centres, the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notary publics, banks and trade finance departments, universities and equivalency bodies, and the Chinese consulate in Dubai.

• Names need three things, not one. A Chinese name has to be reconciled across the characters, the pinyin on the passport, and the Arabic transliteration. We anchor on the passport, keep the characters visible, and keep the surname-first order explicit so the reader is not left guessing which part is the family name.
• Company names are registered strings, not descriptions. A Chinese company name encodes region, trade and entity type. We reproduce the registered English name where one exists on the licence and translate the Chinese faithfully alongside — we do not invent a descriptive rendering that will not match the licence.
• Notarial certificates are a document class of their own. A 公证书 is a booklet: the certificate page, the underlying record and often an English page, bound and sealed. It is translated as one instrument, with the notarial office, certificate number and seal all carried across.
• Simplified and traditional characters both appear. Mainland documents use simplified characters; Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan documents use traditional, with different institutional vocabulary behind them. We identify the issuing jurisdiction rather than flattening them into one.
• Seals outrank signatures. In Chinese practice the company chop is what binds. We translate the seal text and record its presence and placement, because that is what an Arabic-reading officer or judge needs in order to treat the document as executed.

1. Send the document. A clear scan or photo of every page, including stamps and anything printed on the reverse, plus the passport page so names match.
2. We confirm scope, price and date — usually within one working hour. The quote we give is the price you pay.
3. Translation by an accredited legal translator who works in this language pair, not a generalist.
4. Review and certification. Names, numbers, dates and seals are checked against the source before the stamp is applied.
5. Delivery as a certified PDF and, where you need it, a stamped hard copy collected from our Creek Tower office or couriered.