Corporate Structuring
Company Redomiciliation
Transfer of an existing foreign company into Cyprus without breaking legal continuity.
What we do
We move an existing foreign company to Cyprus without dissolving it. The company keeps its incorporation date, its contracts, its intellectual property, its licences and its banking history, and continues as the same legal person under Cyprus law.
That continuity is the whole point. Forming a new Cyprus company and transferring assets into it is a disposal: it needs valuation, it can trigger tax in the country of origin, and where intellectual property is involved it resets the nexus fraction that the IP Box depends on. Redomiciliation moves the seat and leaves everything else where it is.
What you get
- The Cyprus application in full, with the evidence pack and translations the Registrar requires
- Coordination with your advisers in the origin jurisdiction, including the legal opinion on its law that the Cyprus Registrar may ask for
- Constitutional documents brought into line with Cyprus company law
- The temporary and then permanent certificates of continuation
- The permanent certificate, filed once your advisers there confirm the company has been struck off
- Tax registration in Cyprus, and the beneficial ownership filing
- All Registrar fees, included
How it works
Two registries have to act, in sequence rather than together. Cyprus issues a temporary certificate of continuation once the application is accepted, and from that point the company is registered here and subject to Cyprus law. Deregistration in the origin jurisdiction follows, and Cyprus issues the permanent certificate on evidence of it, which has to reach the Registrar within six months.
We act on the Cyprus side. Whether the origin jurisdiction permits a company to leave, and what it requires in order to release one, is a question for your advisers there, and the Cyprus Registrar may itself ask for their legal opinion on the point. Where you do not have advisers there we will say so early rather than late.
Working with us
Four steps, and the first one is a conversation
A call
Where the company is registered, what it owns, and what it would cost to leave. No charge for it.
A proposal in writing
Fixed fees, not estimates, covering the Cyprus side in full, with the Registrar fees included.
You accept
Engagement letter signed, then onboarding. Neither takes long.
Continuation
The temporary certificate makes the company Cyprus registered. The permanent one follows once the origin register has released it.
What follows
Once the company is registered here it files in Cyprus like any other company, and we do that work for you: corporate administration for the registers and filings, accounting and tax compliance for the books and the returns.
Where the company is coming for the tax position rather than only for the address, economic substance is what makes that position hold.
Common questions
Does the company keep its incorporation date?
Yes. It continues as the same legal person, so the incorporation date, the contracts, the licences and the banking history all survive. That is the difference between redomiciliation and starting again.
How long does it take?
The Cyprus side is measured in weeks, and the Registrar ordinarily responds within a month of the filing. What decides the overall timetable is the origin jurisdiction, which has to strike the company off before the permanent certificate can issue, and evidence of that must reach the Cyprus Registrar within six months of the temporary one.
Can any company redomicile to Cyprus?
Only where the law of its origin jurisdiction allows a company to leave that register and its own constitution does not prevent it. That is a question for your advisers in that jurisdiction rather than for us, and it is worth settling before anything else, because the answer decides whether this route exists at all.
What happens to intellectual property the company owns?
Nothing. It stays with the company, which is the reason redomiciliation is usually the better route for an IP owning business. Moving intellectual property between entities is a disposal, and it resets the nexus fraction the IP Box depends on.
| Legal effect | The company continues as the same legal person, with its seat transferred |
|---|---|
| What is preserved | Contracts, licences, banking relationships, intellectual property, incorporation date |
| Asset disposal | None. No transfer of assets occurs |
| Precondition | The departure jurisdiction must permit outward redomiciliation |
| Common obstacle | Exit charges or restrictions imposed by the departure jurisdiction |
| Residency | Still turns on management and control, which must move as well |
Also in Corporate Structuring
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- International Tax PlanningCross-border structuring against ATAD, Pillar Two and treaty tie-breaker rules.
Find out whether Cyprus fits your plans
It starts with three questions: where your revenue comes from, what you own, and where you are tax resident. From there, the conversation is about what you are building and where you want to take it. After the call, you receive a written proposal covering the recommended structure, the implementation roadmap, and a fixed fee quote.