Spain Company Search Report

Our company search service offers up-to-date and accurate information on any company registered in Spain. The information is sourced from the Spanish Mercantile Registry (Registro Mercantil). The report includes details on the company’s legal status, registration data, and, where available, the latest filed financial statements and corporate filings.

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Companies Registry

We can provide a search report from the Registro Mercantil with the latest information on the target Spanish company. The Central Mercantile Register is in charge of maintaining the different registrars in each province of Spain.

The Registro Mercantil organises and processed company filings in accordance with Section 379 of the Mercantile Register Regulations.

Contents of a Spanish Company Search Report

• Confirms company name / Denominación
• Date of Incorporation
• Registration details
• Objects of the company / Objeto Social
• Registered office address / Domicilio Social
• Share capital / Capital social
• Paid up share capital
• CIF number
• Date the company began trading
• Company contact details – where available
• Details of the company directors
• Details of the initial company Shareholders/ Accionistas when the company was incorporated – Changes to shareholders are not updated.
• The purchase and sale of shares are done through deeds signed with a notary and details are kept at the Registered Office of the company and the tax authorities

Director & Company Officers

Details of directors are recorded in the Mercantile Register together with their powers to act for a company.

• A Sole Director is known as Administrador Único
•  An Administrador Solidario- is a director with powers to bind the company, without seeking approval from other directors or shareholders.
• An Administrador Mancomuniado- is a director who has to seek approval of the other directors, to bind the company in a notarised or private contract.

Any change of director, or change of status of a director, needs to be supplied to a notary, and details need to be recorded in the Mercantile Register

• Name / Nombre
• DNI (Identity number)
• Officers type / Cargo – (member of the Board, president, company secretary, managing director)
• Date of the deed / Fecha de la escritura
• Residence / Residencia
• Notarial protocol number / Número de protocolo
• Notary – person who signs the certificate / Notario /
  Certificante
• Date of appointment / Fecha de nombramiento – if available
• Duration / Duración – if available

Company Accounts:

• The latest filed Directors’ Report and Accounts – contents include: directors’ report, independent auditors’ report, profit and loss account, balance sheets, cash flow statement, notes on the cash flow statement and notes on the financial statements – depending on the size of the company.

Record of Lodging of Annual Accounts including:

• Accounting year / Ejercicio
• Date of lodgement of document / Fecha de depósito
• General Ledger / Diario
• Details of each file lodged / Depósitos
• Accounting year-end date / Fecha de cierre
• Date of legalisation of company books by registry / Fecha de legalización

Auditors details/ Auditores – (if available) including:

• Name / Nombre
• DNI (Identity number)
• Date of appointment / Fecha de nombramiento
• Inscriptio / Inscripción
• Duration / Duración
• Date of inscription / Fecha inscripción

Spain Company Search example