DO YOU NEED HELP SETTING UP OR EXPANDING YOUR BUSINESS IN GERMANY?
We are experts in sustainable business development and provide our clients with tailored solutions and a network of trusted partners to easily set up, connect and grow.
N&P Business Development System is the outcome of our holistic approach and deep understanding of the 4 pillars for business development:
Business Set-Up, Visa Processing, HR Management and Strategic International Development.
What do we do for you?
With our network of experts, we support you in founding a company or opening a branch office in Germany or in the Balkan states, as well as in company succession in Germany.
We can also help your company to gain valuable business partners from our network to develop new markets and build new production facilities.
Which tasks do we take over?
Advice with regard to the form of enterprise by lawyers and tax consultants
- Mediation of business relations with German companies or companies in the Balkan states (B2B)
- Mediation of contacts to experts and authorities
- Consulting and support in obtaining official permits.
- Administrative support.
- Advice on cultural differences and teaching intercultural skills in business
FOUNDING A COMPANY IN GERMANY
Before you start we help you choose the appropriate company form.
Our recommendation it to apply for our overall consultation.
Here are services that we can offer you for immediate and smooth start of your business in Germany:
GmbH - limited liability company
Guarantee:
The responsibility is limited to the property of the company.
Share capital:
In this case the original amount is at least 25.000,- €. Here at least a quarter of it, or at least 12.500,-€ must be paid in.
Our service
The basic package includes:
Maximum 2 hours of consultation
– Founding Agreement
– Registration of directors
– Nomination of shareholderswith address
– Action regulation
– Summary of the notary registration
– Preparation for the verification of the founding documents by a notary (notarial costs are not included in the price according to the law)
– The verification of the deposited signatures by notaries (the notarial costs are based on the legal regulations, which are not included in the price).
– Letter to the local court
– Business office registration
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Your passport or ID, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Pay in deposits
Additional service
- Various office services
- The address of the company headquarters
- Opening a bank account
- Information services for the purchase of a vehicle
Over our partner network: - accountant and tax specialist, corporate insurance, health and accident insurance
- Official and certified translations in German, through translation agencies at a fair price
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
UG (Mini-GmbH) – Limited Liability Company
Guarantee:
The responsibility is limited to the property of the company.
Share capital:
The nominal amount is at least € 1.00- In addition to this company share, there is a legal obligation to retain at least 25% of the annual profit as a reserve, which forms the nominal capital, until it exceeds the minimum company share (€ 25,000.-)
Our service
The basic package includes:
– The basic package includes:
– Maximum 1.5 hours of consultation
– Preparation of the founder’s documentation
– Preparation of the protocol
– list of co-owners
– Nomination of a Director
– Writing a letter for a notary public
– Preparation of the protocol
– Writing a letter to the commercial court
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Passport or ID for all partners, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Pay in deposits
Additional service
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
Self-employment
Guarantee:
Personal liability with the owner’s own private property
Share capital:
There is no statutory minimum capital requirement
Our service
The basic package includes:
– Maximum 30 min consultation
– Checking the founder’s documentation
– Completing trade certificate forms Filling out the tax registration form
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Your passport or ID, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Other business services on request.
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
GbR – Civil law partnership, self-employment
Guarantee:
The partners are responsible for the debts of the company with all their capital, including their own private property to the partner
Share capital:
There is no statutory minimum capital requirement.
Our service
The basic package includes:
– Maximum 1 hour of consultation
– Preparation of the articles of association
– Completing the documents
– Application to competent authority (depends on address)
– Filling out the tax registration form
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Your passport or ID, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
KG (Kommanditgesellschaft) – Limited partnership
Guarantee:
A limited partnership (in Germany, abbreviated as KG) is a partnership in which two or more natural or legal persons have joined together to carry on a trade under a common name, whereby at least one partner has unlimited liability (general partner) and at least one other partner has only limited liability (limited partner).
The limited partnership appears to the outside world as a legally independent entity and has its own company name. A natural person within the limited partnership is liable with the private assets, another legal entity within the limited partnership enjoys freedom of liability from the personal assets.
Share capital:
There is no statutory minimum capital requirement
Our service
The basic package includes:
– Maximum ! hours consultation
– Partnership agreement (e.g. amount of contributions, termination, management).
– Bank account: Now a business account must be opened and the deposits paid in.
– Entry into the Commercial Register
– Business registration
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Passport or ID for all partners, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
GmbH & Co.KG – Limited liability company &co.
Guarantee:
The special thing about founding your GmbH & Co. KG is that it is made up of the parallel formation of two companies – the KG and the general partner GmbH. With regard to the share capital, a differentiation must be made in this respect when founding.
In contrast to a typical limited partnership, the personally responsible partner (general partner) is not a natural person, but a company with a limited liability , GmbH.
This structure offers the possibility to exclude or limit the risk arising from the responsibility of the persons behind the company.
Share capital:
The company share amounts to at least 25,000 € and a quarter of it, but at least 12,500- € must be deposited.
Our service
The basic package includes:
– Maximum 2 hours of consultation
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Passport or ID for all partners, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
- Pay in deposits
- Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Various office services
- The address of the company headquarters
- Opening a bank account
- Information services for the purchase of a vehicle
Over our partner network:
- accountant and tax specialist
- corporate insurance, health and accident insurance
- Official and certified translations in German, through translation agencies at a fair price
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
AG – Public limited company / Stock corporation
Guarantee:
The stock corporation is only liable with its own corporate capital.
Share capital:
Minimum deposit 50.000, – €
Our service
The basic package includes:
– Maximum 2 hours of consultation
– A partnership agreement
– Founding Agreement
– Registration of directors
– Nomination of members (shareholders) with address
– Action regulation
– Certificate on the paid-up capital
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Prior to establishment, responsibilities must be clearly shared: Supervisory Board
- Board of Directors
- Annual General Meeting
- Auditor.
- All necessary identity documents must be prepared.
- Passport or ID for all partners, depending on your country of origin.
- Proof of residence address.
- Proof of payment for our services and notary services.
Pay in deposits
Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Various office services
- The address of the company headquarters
- Opening a bank account
- Information services for the purchase of a vehicle
Over our partner network:
- accountant and tax specialist
- corporate insurance, health and accident insurance
- Official and certified translations in German, through translation agencies at a fair price
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
Branch office of your company in Germany
Guarantee:
- the foundation of a sub-company with its own legal personality
- the foundation of an independent branch office
- the founding of a dependent branch office (permanent establishment)
Our service
– Document review and verification
– German Founding Act
– Writing a letter for a notary public
– On request, includes additional costs: “Additional Notary Costs”
– Preparation for verification of deposited signatures by a notary public (notarial expenses are special)
– Preparation for verification of deposited signatures by a notary public (notarial expenses are special)
– Registration with the Commercial Court
– General information on the procedure for tax office, health and liability insurance, tax
Required documents
- Notarized founding documents with certified translation into German
- Certified company resolution with certified translation into German
- Certificate of payment of the share capital
- Extract from the company
- Tax number
- Certificate of tax return (tax administration)
- Translated and notarized copy of the passport (members of the company, directors and managers of the future branch)
- Certificates of exemption from punishment, certified and translated into German
- Residence permit for non-EU, EGT, US, Swiss and Canadian nationals.
- Address of the brunch office in Germany
Other necessary documentation may be required depending on the specific needs of your profession and industry.
Additional service
- Various office services
- The address of the company headquarters
- Opening a bank account
- Information services for the purchase of a vehicle
Over our partner network:
- accountant and tax specialist
- corporate insurance, health and accident insurance
- Official and certified translations in German, through translation agencies at a fair price
- Other business services on request
* This information was correct at the time of publishing. Kindly get in touch to know of any changes to these requirements.
Get in touch now
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CONTACT DETAILS
N&P Business Consulting GmbH (N&P CONNECT GmbH)
Sophie-Charlotten-Straße 9-10, 14059 Berlin, Germany
info@np-connect.de
+49 (0)30 403 660 660
+49 (0)163 73 97 187