The formation of business in Azerbaijan is relatively complicated in spite of that the application of the new ‘unified window’ system for business registration reduces the number of procedures three times and the registration period was cut by 20 times. Exact planning of business activities is an absolute necessity in order to select the correct legal form to put business on a solid base for its future.

Azerbaijan law offers several common used modes to start up business:

• Establishment of branch or representative office of a foreign company in Azerbaijan
• Incorporation of Azerbaijan legal entity;
• Registration of individual entrepreneurship.

Alfa Audit Legal Service provides complete legal support of start up:

legal consulting on the issues of establishment of companies in Azerbaijan and abroad;
development and analysis of constituent documents;
providing of all necessary registrations;
bank account opening.
Our specialists also assist if :

reorganization of legal entities;
registration of amendments to charter documents;
liquidation of legal entities, branches or representative offices

• Creation of the legal entities with local investment if the founder the physical entities;
• Creation of the legal entities with local investment if the founder legal entities;
• Creation of the legal entities with foreign investment if the founder legal entities;
• Creation of the legal entities with foreign investment if the founder the physical entities;
• Creation representative of the legal entities;
• Creation of branch of the legal entities.

In case of creation of the legal person with local investment if the founder the physical person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• A copy (ies) of the identity card (s) of the founder (s) the organization;
• Notarially certified form of the registration certificate or the certificate of the legal address of the organization; 

The note: if the legal address of the organization not addressed to the founder (or one of founders), in that case to the given documents is applied notarially certified application about not objection (we give the form of the application ourselves) on behalf of that to whom belongs the chosen legal address.

• If to execution powers of director the founder appoint the extraneous person, a copy of the identity card of the given person;
• The Power of attorney on the authorized person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration (we give the form of the power of attorney ourselves).

In case of creation of the legal person with local investment if the founder legal person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• The Charter of the legal person – founder certified by the notary;
• The Certificate on registration of the legal person – founder certified by the notary;
• The Decision on creation of the legal person;
• The Power of attorney at the syndic person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration;
• Notarially certified form of the registration certificate or the certificate of the legal address of the organization.

In case of creation of the legal person with foreign investment if the founder legal person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• The Charter of the legal person of headquarters plant certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Certificate on registration of the legal person, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Decision on creation of the legal person, or other company, certified by the notary and legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Power of attorney at the syndic person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in corresponding country*.

In case of creation of the legal person with foreign investment if the founder the physical person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• The Document, testifying that the person is the founder of any commercial legal person in the homeland or is the individual businessman (most likely the name of the person should be brought in the corresponding register) certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• Copy of the passport (civil and foreign);
• The Power of attorney on the authorized person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in corresponding country*.

In case of creation representative of the legal person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• The Charter of the legal person of headquarters plant certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Certificate on registration of the legal person, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Decision on creation of the representative, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country*;
• The Power of attorney on the syndic person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in corresponding country*.

In case of creation of branch of the legal person it will be necessary for you to give following documents:

• The Charter of the legal person of headquarters plant certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country *;
• The Certificate on registration of the legal person, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country *;
• The Decision on creation of branch of the legal person, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in the corresponding country *;
• The Power of attorney at the syndic person in occasion of introduction of all actions, references in state bodies and signings of all documents necessary for the registration, certified by the notary or legalized in embassy of Azerbaijan in corresponding country.

*In the CIS countries there is no necessity legalize documents as between our countries the contract is signed, releasing from such necessity; as to other countries if this country has joined the Hague convention (as Azerbaijan has joined the Hague convention on a canceling of consular legalization about 02/03/2005 years), consular legalization of documents is not required, and documents will be legalized by putting down of an apostille.