Cyprus Company Guides

Practical, plain-English guides to how companies work in Cyprus, and original statistics from our database of 574,121 registered entities.

• How to Register a Company in Cyprus: Step-by-Step Guide

  The steps to incorporate a private limited company in Cyprus: name approval, memorandum and articles, filing with the Registrar, tax registration and the beneficial ownership register.

• Cyprus Company Types Explained: Companies, Partnerships, Business Names and Overseas Companies

  The different kinds of entity on the Cyprus register, what each is used for, and how many of each are registered, based on our analysis of the full register.

• Keeping a Cyprus Company Compliant: Annual Filings and Ongoing Obligations

  What a Cyprus company must file and keep up to date after incorporation: annual returns, audited accounts, registers, beneficial owners and tax, and what happens if it doesn't.

• What Cyprus Companies Are Called: Naming Trends in the Company Register

  An analysis of the names of every company on the Cyprus register: the most common words, how names have changed over the decades, and what the words say about the Cyprus economy.

• How to Close a Cyprus Company: Strike-Off, Voluntary Liquidation and Court Winding-Up

  The ways a Cyprus company can be closed, when each applies, what they involve, and why being struck off the register is not the same as closing a company properly.

• Registering an Overseas Company Branch in Cyprus

  When a foreign company must register a branch in Cyprus, what documents are needed, how a branch differs from a Cyprus subsidiary, and the ongoing filings.

• How to Check a Cyprus Company Before You Do Business With It

  A practical checklist for verifying a Cyprus company: confirming it exists, its status, directors, shareholders, address, and the warning signs to look for.

• Cyprus Company Statistics: Registrations, Types and Status

  How many companies are registered in Cyprus, how many are active, how many are formed each year and how many are struck off. Figures from the full register of 574,121 entities.