Corporate services in the Czech Republic
One team to establish your Czech company, manage later updates and keep its Commercial Register records accurate.
AMS provides corporate services in the Czech Republic at every stage of a company's lifecycle. We establish new entities, keep Commercial Register records accurate and prepare the filings needed for later changes.
Whether your company already exists or you are still setting it up, the same core elements apply: statutory documents, filing deadlines and register entries.
Corporate secretarial services cover the legal and administrative maintenance of the company. This includes statutory documents, shareholder and director resolutions, and the register filings that follow from them. In other words, this is company administration rather than office support. Accounting covers financial records and reporting, while corporate services cover the company's legal structure and the information recorded about it.
What corporate and secretarial services
cover in the Czech Republic
Company formation in the Czech Republic
Full-cycle setup of a Czech s.r.o.: statutory documents, notarial deed, trade licence and entry in the Czech Commercial Register.
Company formationReady-made company with a VAT number
An existing Czech s.r.o. with active VAT registration and a verified clean history, transferred to you within five working days.
Ready-made companyCorporate changes
Director appointments, share transfers, capital updates and business-scope changes, with documents drafted, notarised and filed.
Corporate changesRegistered address and virtual office
A registered office address in Prague with the property owner’s consent, plus mail received, logged, scanned and forwarded.
Registered addressYour company in the Czech Commercial Register
Every Czech company has a public record in the Commercial Register (obchodní rejstřík). Banks review it during onboarding, notaries check it before preparing deeds, and counterparties usually examine it before signing. Eight core entries make up that record. Behind each one sits a filing, either when the company starts or when it later changes. Anyone can review a company’s current record and filing history at or.justice.cz.
Company name
Must be clearly different from names already on the register. Changing it means a notarial act and then a new filing.
Company ID (IČO)
The registry court assigns it with the first entry. It does not change later.
Registered office
The company must have the right to use the address and keep the property owner’s written consent on file.
Business scope
The activities covered by the company’s trade licence. The scope must match the activities the company actually carries out.
Executive director (jednatel)
The person who may act for the company, together with the signing rules that apply.
Shareholders
Who owns the company, the size of each holding, and every later transfer between owners.
Share capital
The registered amount, plus the documents behind any later increase or cut.
Ultimate beneficial owners
Held in a linked register with restricted access, not in the public file.
Not sure which
corporate service
you need?
Tell us what the company needs to do next: start trading, hire staff, open an account or change hands. Then we will name the filings it needs, the order they go in and how long each takes.
Talk to a corporate specialist about your company
Corporate compliance: what a Czech s.r.o.
must keep current every year
Corporate compliance in the Czech Republic starts here, because corporate records do not stay current on their own. In practice, four areas most often need review or updating. Banks, notaries, registry courts and counterparties may examine them during onboarding, transactions or due diligence.
The register of beneficial owners
Every s.r.o. must record its beneficial owners and update the entry whenever ownership or control changes. Otherwise two sanctions apply at once. Where no valid entry exists, the beneficial owner may not exercise voting rights, and the company may not pay that person a share of profit.
Consent to the registered office
The company must hold a valid right to use its address for as long as the register shows it there. The property owner’s consent proves that right, and the registry accepts it only if it is under three months old with a certified signature. Therefore, if the underlying contract lapses or the owner withdraws consent, the registry court may open proceedings.
Business scope that matches reality
If the company starts an activity outside its registered scope, it must extend that scope and obtain the required trade licence. Banks typically compare the registered activities with the company’s actual transactions.
Director and shareholder data
A change of director, owner or address takes effect towards third parties only when it appears in the register. Until then, third parties may rely on the previous data.
Why companies keep their corporate work with AMS
One provider for the whole record
Formation, a ready-made transfer, later changes and the registered address run under one agreement. Nothing falls between two providers, and no filing waits for someone else to send a document.
Deadlines tracked, not remembered
We monitor the expiry of your address consent, changes that trigger a beneficial-owner update, and the filing windows that follow each corporate decision. You hear about a deadline before it matters, not after.
Filed in Czech, explained in your language
Documents and submissions to the registry court are prepared in Czech, as the law requires. Everything we send you is explained in English, Czech, Russian or Ukrainian.
Need to establish or maintain
a Czech company
correctly?
Send us the company details, or just describe what you plan to change. We will set out what has to be filed, in what order and by when. If nothing needs doing, we will tell you that too.
Corporate services in the Czech Republic
FAQ: corporate and secretarial services in the Czech Republic
What are corporate secretarial services, and what do they include?
They cover the administration of the company as a legal entity. That means keeping statutory documents in order, drafting shareholder and director resolutions, and making sure register entries match the current position. In the Czech Republic, the work also includes the beneficial-owner record and documents for the annual general meeting. The name is misleading: it has nothing to do with secretarial or office staff.
What is the difference between corporate services and accounting services?
Corporate services in the Czech Republic deal with the company’s legal structure and public records: its owners, director, address and business scope. Accounting covers the money: books, tax filings, payroll reporting and the annual accounts. The two meet once a year, when the general meeting approves those accounts and the company files them. In practice most clients use both, under one agreement.
How can I check my company’s entry in the Czech Commercial Register?
The register is public and free of charge. Search by company name or IČO at or.justice.cz, and you will see the current entry together with the full history of changes. The attached Collection of Deeds contains founding documents and previously filed accounts. If any record is outdated, then we can prepare the documents and the filing needed to correct it.
What is the difference between a registered address and a virtual office?
They are not the same thing. The registered address is a legal requirement: every Czech company must have one entered in the Commercial Register, and the property owner has to consent to it in writing. A virtual office is a commercial service built around that address — mail received, logged, scanned and forwarded, plus a business address for your invoices. If you own or lease real premises, you already have a registered address and need nothing else. If you buy a virtual office, the address is the part you are actually paying for.
Can AMS take over a company that another provider set up?
Yes. First we read the current register entry and the Collection of Deeds to see what the previous provider filed and what is missing. Typical findings include an expired address consent, an outdated beneficial-owner entry, or a business scope that no longer matches what the company does. So you receive a list of required corrections before we begin ongoing support.
My company is dormant. Do I still need corporate services in the Czech Republic?
Yes. A dormant company keeps a registered office that needs valid consent, beneficial owners that must stay current in the register, and a business scope that still has to reflect what it may do. Corporate compliance does not pause because trading has. In practice, dormant companies are where we find the most outdated register entries.