About
About Salt Corporate Services
We provide the practical infrastructure surrounding your operations in Iraq — the machinery around the business, rather than the business itself.
Salt Corporate Services exists because of a pattern we kept seeing. A company decides Iraq is worth doing. It puts a capable person on a plane. And that person spends the next six months not on the commercial opportunity but on generators, SIM cards, driver rotas, supplier quotations that cannot be compared, and a landlord who wants a year in advance.
The commercial case survives that. The person often does not. What is missing is not advice and not capital: it is an operating desk in Baghdad that takes the requirement, runs it through suppliers it has already checked, and hands back a result with a record attached.
What we do
We provide or coordinate the operational layer around your work in Iraq. Some of it we deliver ourselves. Some of it we buy from suppliers we have selected, screened and supervise. Some of it is performed by licensed specialist partners, because it requires a licence we do not hold and would not claim to hold.
- Business space and virtual presence
- Office setup and workplace operations
- Procurement and supplier management
- Employment, local recruitment, payroll and HR administration
- Staff relocation
- Executive drivers and transportation
- B6 armoured and luxury soft-skin vehicles
- Airport and VIP services
- Executive and delegation support
- Private-jet and aviation coordination
- Travel and accommodation
- Security through a licensed security partner
- Facilities management
- IT and telecommunications coordination
- Fleet management
- Logistics, warehousing and delivery
- Inventory and asset management
- Project and site support
- General translation and document services
- Market visits
- Events and delegations
- Embassy and international-organisation support
- Operational exit and demobilisation
Where the lines are
Every one of these lines exists because it protects you. Together they are why a compliance function can sign off on an Iraqi operation it has never visited.
- Legal advice, opinions, drafting and representation go to Salt & Associates next door, under their own engagement
- Your employees are employed by you — you select them, set their terms and approve the payroll; we run the files and the cycle
- Shares and directorships stay in your name, held by people you chose
- Purchase orders are issued in your name and you buy from suppliers at the supplier's price; we source, check and document
- You pay suppliers directly, so your money stays in your account until you release it
- Security is delivered by licensed security companies on your own contract; we specify, select and oversee
- Vehicles are owned or leased by you, and drivers come through licensed providers
- Insurance and banking introductions are made on merit — nothing comes to Salt from the other side
- Anything requiring an Iraqi licence is performed by a provider who holds it, chosen and supervised by us
- We tell you what an authority is likely to require, and we are honest that the decision is theirs
Reading the market
What experience looks like on the page
A supplier list is easy to produce. Knowing which of those suppliers will still answer the phone in August, which one quoted from stock it does not hold, and which invoice the bank will actually clear — that is the part that takes years.
We put it in writing rather than asking you to take it on trust. Every requirement gets a scope, a named coordinator, a comparison you can see and a file you can audit.
Depth, and what stands behind it
Iraq is not a market you learn from a report. Almost everything that matters here — which supplier actually holds the stock, which document the counter will accept today, how long the gate really takes — is learned by doing it, being wrong once, and writing down what worked. That is the asset we sell.
So we do not ask you to take experience on trust. We show it in the method: a scope before the work, a named coordinator while it runs, a file when it closes and a report every month. You can audit the way we operate before you rely on it.
- Baghdad-based and Iraq-only — one market, understood properly, rather than a regional desk with an Iraq line in the brochure
- The full operational layer under one accountable desk: ten areas, thirty-three services, fifteen configured products
- Bilingual by default — instructions in English, the market answered in Arabic, and both sides of it in your file
- A documented process applied identically across every service, so finance, compliance and audit can sign off on what happened
- Suppliers verified and contracted rather than recommended, with the comparison kept on file
- Licensed activities performed by appropriately licensed and insured providers we select, contract and oversee
- A standing corridor to Salt & Associates the moment a matter turns legal, engaged separately and scoped separately
Where this came from
Salt & Associates has practised law in Iraq since 1981. Over those years the same request kept arriving from international clients: the legal work was done, the entity existed, the licence was granted — and then somebody still had to find the office, hire the staff, buy the equipment, move the people and keep the records. That is not legal work, and a law firm should not pretend otherwise.
Salt Corporate Services was created to do it properly, as a division of Salt for Legal Services LLC, registered in Iraq. Most of the demand came from clients entering the market, operating in it and trying to do both without carrying the cost of a full country office. That is still what most of this is.
What is separate is the work, not the company. Salt Corporate Services and Salt & Associates sit under one registered Iraqi entity, and they are engaged separately, scoped separately and billed separately. The firm is why we know what a regulator will accept; the separation of engagement is why operational work is never sold to you as legal work, or the reverse.
Sectors we work in
The requirement arrives most often from three directions. No client is named on this site, and none will be without their written agreement.
- Oil and gas — operators, contractors and their supply chains
- Diplomatic missions and international organisations
- Telecommunications
Certification
Salt holds certification to three management system standards. Certificates are available on request.
- ISO 9001:2015
- Quality Management System
- ISO 14001:2015
- Environmental Management System
- ISO 45001:2018
- Occupational Health and Safety Management System
A management system standard is not a guarantee of an outcome and we do not present it as one. What it means in practice is that the way we scope work, select suppliers, record what happened and handle what went wrong is documented, audited and repeatable — which is the same reason the rest of this page keeps describing files, records and reports.
Why clients hand over the whole layer
You can buy these services separately. Most organisations start that way: a broker for the office, an agency for the drivers, a forwarder for the freight, someone's cousin for the rest. It works until something crosses a boundary — and in Iraq, almost everything crosses a boundary.
One desk holding all of it means the procurement file and the customs file are the same file, the driver roster and the visit plan are the same plan, and nobody gets to say the delay belonged to somebody else. There is one account lead, one request channel, one monthly report, and one organisation answerable for the result.
The company
- Name
- Salt Corporate Services Provider
- Arabic name
- شركة الصلت للخدمات المؤسسية ودعم الأعمال
- What we are
- A division of Salt for Legal Services LLC, providing corporate services and business support. Not a law firm, and not a provider of legal services.
- Registered in Iraq under
- Salt for Legal Services LLC
- Baghdad office
- District 612, Street 3, Four Streets, Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
- Contact
- Info@SaltCSP.com · +964 773 733 9916
Where we work
Iraq only. Baghdad is where the desk sits and where our business space is, and we work across the governorates — Basra, Najaf, Kirkuk, Mosul and the rest.
The relationship with Salt & Associates
Salt Corporate Services operates and supports the client's business. Salt & Associates provides the legal and regulatory services required to establish, structure and protect it. The two work alongside each other under separate engagements, separately scoped and separately billed.
Where one of our services touches a legal or regulatory question — a lease, an employment term, a tax position, a licence — we say so and stop. Salt & Associates may then be engaged separately for that work. We do not present legal work as part of our own scope.
How we charge
- Per use
- Meeting rooms, hot desks, meet and greet, translations, interpreters, single purchases.
- Per project
- Establishment support, office set-up, recruitment of a role, tenders, events, delegations, mobilisation.
- Monthly service fee
- Business address, virtual office, coordinator desk, HR desk, payroll, procurement desk, facilities, fleet, Iraq Desk.
- Per employee
- Payroll and HR administration.
- Per transaction
- Administrative transactions above an agreed allowance.
- Pass-through at cost
- Government fees with official receipts, suppliers and licensed partners — shown separately on every invoice.
There are no undisclosed commissions, rebates or mark-ups. Prices are not published on this site because they depend on scope; they are set out in the written proposal.
Start with the requirement, not the brochure.
Tell us what has to work in Iraq and by when.