Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 250

The general rule is that a non-Kuwaiti may not engage in trade unless he has a Kuwaiti partner. Exceptions thereto: funds he deposits with banks or companies, or agreements he concludes with them to invest those funds - 386 - Civil Procedure for his account and to deal in foreign currency and precious metals, where this falls within their objects. This includes limited liability companies. - The specific does not repeal the general but constitutes an exception to it: an example concerning the inclusion of the term companies among those whom the legislature permitted to deal with foreigners in investing their funds under the Commercial Code, and its treatment as an exception to the prohibition imposed on limited liability companies by the Companies Law.