Company Registration in Georgia

The process of company registration in Georgia entails a set of steps that are mandatory for all legal entities, regardless of their type. The registration obligations are the same for local and foreign investors, who must abide by the requirements prescribed by the local legislation.

Quick Facts
Institution in charge with company registration in Georgia	National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR)
Who must register?	Entities that perform economic and not-for-profit activities (sole traders, companies, charities, trusts, etc.).
Basic registration obligations	Any entity that must register with NAPR needs to have: – incorporation documents, – a trade name, – a registered address. It must also provide information on its founders and shareholding structure.
Trade name	It must be unique at a national level and it must reflect the company’s type. The name can be registered by using the Georgian alphabet or the Latin one.
Ways to complete the registration	in person
Registration fees (yes/no)	Yes
Documentation	– the company’s founding documents, – the completed application form, – the proof of having a registered address, – documents attesting the legal representative, – proof of paying the processing fee
Publishing obligations	The registration of the company must be formally announced on the central electronic platform of NAPR.
Can investors obtain legal representation for company registration purposes?	The process of company registration in Georgia can be completed with the assistance of legal representatives.
How to obtain legal representation	By granting the power of attorney
Can investors acquire electronic documents from the Trade Register?	Yes
Basic laws enforced by the Trade Register	– Civil Code of Georgia, – General Administrative Code of Georgia, – Law of Georgia on the Public Registry, – Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs, – Law of Georgia on Legal Entities under Public Law, etc.
Database on companies in Georgia	The search tool on the online platform of NAPR
Other roles of the Public Registry of Commerce	NAPR handles a variety of legal matters, outside company registration in Georgia. It supervises the registration of: – real estate properties, – cadastre, – land, – it provides sample documents and reports on companies and properties in Georgia, – it offers access to public data, etc. (in total, it offers 331 services).
Ways to obtain information on companies in Georgia	Online

In order to register a company in Georgia, businessmen (or their legal representatives, such as our Georgian lawyers), have to address the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), the main authority in charge with the registration formalities applicable to a legal entity, through which the structure gains legal recognition in this country.

Once formally recognized, all structures, whether they are set up for commercial or non-profit purposes, are registered in the Registry of Entrepreneurial and Non-Entrepreneurial Legal Entities, which stores and displays basic information on the registered business forms.

How to register a business in Georgia with NAPR

In order to complete the registration process, investors must prepare and submit a file containing the documentation required by NAPR, in accordance with the stipulations of the Georgian law. For this purpose, they must prepare the following:

the application form;
the statutory documents of the legal entity;
a document attesting the authorized person, who is appointed as a legal representative;
the identity document of the appointed person;
documentation attesting the place of business (the registered address in Georgia);
proof of paying the registration fee.

What are the registration fees charged by NAPR?

Business registration in Georgia is bound by the payment of various registration fees, which are generally charged by most jurisdictions. It must be noted that while Georgia charges such fees, they are very low compared to other neighboring or European countries. At the moment, investors who register a business in Georgia with NAPR must pay the following fees:

GEL 200 – standard registration fee;
GEL 400 – applicable for the investors who want their company to be registered the same day when the application is made;
GEL 26 – institutional feel charged for the issuance of a company extract in English (the registration is done in the Georgian language, the national language of the country);
GEL 7 – certification of signatures.

In the video below, you can observe some of the functions of the Georgian Trade Register:

What other responsibilities does NAPR have in connection to corporate entities?

NAPR has more responsibilities that just company registration in Georgia. The authority handles all other aspects that can appear during the lifetime of company, which must be reported to the institution (and later on, stored and publicly published on its website, so that any interested party can have access to it). Some of its roles in this sense are:

registration of changes (change of company’s identification data, objects of activity, address, etc.);
company reorganization;
revocation of business registration in Georgia;
registration of winding up.

Does NAPR provide other services?

NAPR’s roles are not limited solely to the registration and the functioning of legal entities. The institution, working under the Ministry of Justice, provides a variety of services (according to the data provided by NAPR, it offers 331 services designed for natural persons and legal entities). Overall, the authority handles matters such as:

the registration of legal entities (as reflected earlier in this article);
the registration of immovable properties;
the registration of property rights (for immovable and movable property);
the registration of cadastral data.

Interested parties can also obtain (free of charge) statistical information on the companies registered in this country by type and the year of registration (for instance, in 2024, there were a total of 52,853 sole traders and 17,662 limited liability companies). If you want to register a business in Georgia, we invite you to contact our team for full legal representation during this process.