Company registration in Cyprus
We will clear the name, draft the constitution the registrar accepts, file the incorporation and hand you the certificate together with the dates that start running on the day it is issued.
Incorporation forms
Формы на регистрацию
€165
165 евро
Name approval
Согласование имени
€10
10 евро
Private company
Частная компания
up to 50 members
до 50 участников
First meeting
Первое собрание
within 18 months
в 18 месяцев
When you need company registration in Cyprus
A counterparty asked for a European entity
A buyer, a platform or a fund wants to contract with a company inside the European Union. That request decides the country before anything else does.
The name keeps coming back rejected
A name is examined before the company exists, and a refusal costs the whole queue. What the examiner objects to is worth knowing before you print anything.
You want to own it alone
One person can hold every share here, and the same person can sit as the only director. What that does to the secretary’s seat is a rule of its own.
You are hiring the filing out
Registration is not open work: the filing itself belongs to lawyers. Who signs your application decides whether it can be made at all.
The first year has its own clocks
An address, a meeting and a return all have their own clocks, and every one of them starts at incorporation — long before your first invoice.
What you get
- An approved name and the certificate
- A constitution written for your case
- The registered address in place
- Officers and members entered
- The first-year calendar in writing
What is required to register a company in Cyprus
Registration here runs through one office: the department that keeps the register of companies and, in the same building, intellectual property. It examines the name first and the constitution second, and it publishes what each filing costs.
Where the country itself is still an open question, that is jurisdiction selection; where the company exists elsewhere and has to move without ending, redomiciliation.
What the register needs from you
- A name the examiner will clear, with the word for limited liability at the end of it.
- A memorandum stating the name, the objects and that the liability of the members is limited, signed by each subscriber before a witness.
- Articles that carry the three restrictions a private company is defined by.
- Identity papers for every member, director and secretary, and the address the register will publish.
- A person entitled to make the filing, because the filing itself is reserved.
What the registrar charges
The tariff is published form by form, and the same amount is charged whether the filing is made on paper or through the electronic channel.
| Filing | Published fee |
|---|---|
| Approval of a name | €10 |
| The incorporation forms | €165 |
| Change of the registered address | €20 |
| Change of directors or secretary | €20 |
| The annual return | €20 |
There is no annual fee for keeping the company on the register: the levy charged until 2024 has been abolished.
What makes a company private
A company is private only if its articles do three things at once: restrict the transfer of its shares, cap the members at fifty and forbid any invitation to the public to subscribe. Employees and former employees who stayed on are not counted in the fifty, and the shares may be held by one and only one person.
Default on any one of the three and the company stops being entitled to the privileges private companies hold, which is why the articles are written against that section. A public company answers to a different set of conditions before it may start trading, and the bank’s part in them is set out on opening a bank account in Cyprus.
The clocks that start at incorporation
- An address in the Republic from the day business begins or the fourteenth day after incorporation, whichever comes first, with notice to the registrar.
- A secretary from the start. A sole director may not also be the secretary unless the company has one and only one member.
- The first annual general meeting inside eighteen months, and never more than fifteen months between one meeting and the next.
- An annual return at least once every year, covering the office, the registers, the shares and the officers.
Sources: fees from the registrar’s Forms & Fees; the private company, the address, the secretary, the meeting and the return — sections 29, 102, 171, 125 and 118 of the Companies Law, Cap. 113; the public company conditions — sections 4A and 104 of the same law.
Stages of work
The name, before anything is printed.
We will put the name through examination and hold a second and a third in reserve, because a refusal costs the whole queue behind it, and never one form alone.
The constitution written for your case.
The objects, the share structure and the three restrictions that make the company private are drafted together, so that the articles say what you actually intend instead of what a template assumed.
The people and the address.
Directors, secretary, members and the address the register will publish are settled before filing. Who may be the secretary depends on how many members you have, so that question is answered here and not later.
Lodging it, and who may sign.
The application goes in with the fees the registrar publishes. The filing is made by a person entitled to make it, and that is checked before the papers move.
The certificate, and what follows it.
With the certificate in hand the registers open, the beneficial owners are recorded and the notice of the registered office goes to the registrar inside its own deadline.
The first-year calendar.
You get the dates in writing: the first meeting, the return, the changes that have to be filed when officers or the address move.
Registration in other countries is gathered on company registration.
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