Foreign Legal Entity (Branch) Registration
Overview: A foreign company that wants to establish a permanent presence in the Netherlands may register a branch at the Dutch Trade Register. A branch is not a legal entity but is the extension of a foreign (parent) company.
Purpose: Registration of a Branch of a foreign company
Main specifications:
- full dependence on the foreign (parent) company
- identical business operations as foreign (parent) company
- identical legal name as foreign (parent) company
- liability is borne by foreign (parent) company
- no minimum capital requirements
Registering authority: the Dutch Trade Register
Term of registration: 2-3 working days
Personal presence: Optional
Conditions for registration:
- Foreign (parent) company outside the Netherlands
- Director/Authorized Representative – Minimum 1 (maximum – unlimited) natural/legal person of any nationality/jurisdiction
- Registered office address in the Netherlands
Required documents (must be legalized and translated if the language is other than Dutch, English, German or French):
- Passport or European ID card (for all directors/authorized representatives of an intended branch)
- Proof of residential address not older than 3 months (for all directors/authorized representatives of an intended branch)
- Extract from the Trade Register of a foreign (parent) company (not older than 1 month)
- Minutes of the General Meeting of a foreign (parent) company stating the decision to register a branch
- Articles of Association of foreign (parent) company
- Memorandum of Association of foreign (parent) company
- Certificate of Incumbency (stating the details of the Directors and/or Authorized Representatives) of foreign (parent) company
- Document, authorizing to use the registered office address (Copy of the Rental Agreement, Authorization Letter from the Owner, Certificate on Property)
€295.00