Handle the whole incorporation online, from any corner of the world, with a legal team guiding every step.
Only two items are required:
Filling in the online form takes about five minutes; the setup fee is paid right after submission.
We prepare it and send it over — usually within 5 business days (an estimate, not a guaranteed deadline).
Once the registry completes the incorporation, you receive the company registration certificate.
Portugal recognises several company forms. These are the ones that matter when you are incorporating from abroad — the first three we handle end to end through the online application.
The standard Portuguese limited company, and the form most of our clients choose. Partners are liable only up to the capital they subscribe, and that capital can be as little as €1 per partner.
The same limited-liability structure with one owner, who can be a person or another company. Accounting, tax and reporting work exactly as they do for an Lda.
The lightest option for freelancers and consultants. There is no company to form and no capital to deposit, but you answer for business debts with your personal assets.
For larger operations and companies that plan to bring in investors or issue shares. It needs at least five shareholders — or one, if that shareholder is itself a company — plus a board and a statutory auditor, so we scope it on a call rather than through the form.
Not a separate legal entity, but a registered Portuguese presence of a foreign company. It receives a Portuguese tax number and files locally, while liability stays with the parent.
Most people register from scratch. When a deadline is the binding constraint, taking over a company that already exists can be faster.
Madeira is part of Portugal and part of the European Union. Companies trading internationally from the island can apply to its International Business Centre — a regime approved as EU state aid, which is what separates it from an offshore arrangement.
Companies licensed in the International Business Centre pay 5% corporate income tax on income from international activity. Income earned from Portuguese clients is taxed at the normal rate.
A Madeira company is a Portuguese company: an EU VAT number, access to the EU directives, and Portugal's network of around 80 double-taxation treaties. It banks and invoices like any other EU entity.
Profits distributed to shareholders who are not resident in Portugal are generally exempt from Portuguese withholding tax, provided the shareholder is not in a blacklisted jurisdiction.
The regime also reduces stamp duty, property transfer tax and municipal property tax on the company's business activity, within the limits written into the licence.
The rate is tied to real activity on the island: broadly, one to five jobs created in the first six months together with €75,000 invested in fixed assets within two years, or six or more jobs with no investment requirement. A letterbox company does not qualify.
Accounting, filing deadlines and the commercial registry work exactly as they do on the mainland, so the compliance you take on is the compliance you already planned for.
Incorporating a business is usually associated with stacks of paper and waiting rooms. It doesn’t have to be. Our clients have seen for themselves how quick and painless opening a Portuguese company can be when specialists take over the formalities — from the first document check to the moment the certificates arrive.
Every step happens online, from wherever you are. Nothing in the process asks you to fly to Portugal or stand in a queue.
A legal team drafts the articles, checks your documents and files them. You are paying for the work, not for a template with your name in it.
Company formation, NIE and NIF numbers, notarisations, apostilles and certified translations — the pieces that usually mean three providers come from one.
Clients rate the service on Trustpilot and the reviews stay up unedited. It is the least filtered picture of what this process is actually like.
You get a person rather than a ticket queue. Questions go to the same team handling your file, by email or on WhatsApp.
The fee is quoted before you commit, with government and registry costs listed separately, so the total does not move once the work has started.
Fill out a short application, and our lawyer will assist you.
