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Company changes and registration

Company changes and registration in practice

A business moves on and the register has to keep up. Directors change, a shareholder joins, the company relocates or expands its activities. Each change has to be entered in the Slovak Commercial Register so that banks, partners and authorities can rely on the registered details. Since 17 August 2026, a signature certified at a registry office is no longer enough for some of these changes.

Send us the company ID number and tell us what you want to change. Within one working day you receive the procedure, a list of documents and the price. We prepare each document in the form the law requires for that change and combine several changes in one application, so the EUR 50 court fee is paid only once. Registering or updating the beneficial owner costs EUR 50 excluding VAT.

What we help with

  • Change of director and of signing authority
  • Share transfer and registration of a new shareholder
  • Change of registered office, business name and business activities
  • Increase or reduction of share capital
  • Registering or updating the beneficial owner
  • Change of legal form, for example from s.r.o. to joint stock company
  • Several changes at once in a single application

Worth knowing

Change of director

Where an s.r.o. has several shareholders, a general meeting appointing or removing a director must be recorded by a notarial deed (Section 127a(4)(c) of the Slovak Commercial Code). With a sole shareholder, a decision in the form of a notarial deed or a lawyer-authorised document is enough (Section 132(1)).

Routine amendments

Changing the registered office, business name or business activities does not require the qualified form, provided the voting ratio and the share ratio stay the same.

Refused application

A refusal to register can only be remedied by objections within 15 days (Section 44(5) and Section 60 of Act No. 29/2026 Coll.). Only a notary acting as registrar issues requests to supplement an application (Section 45(6)).

Chains of single-member companies

The ban on chaining single-member companies under Section 105a of the Commercial Code has been abolished. A single-member s.r.o. may now be the sole shareholder of another company, and the limit of three companies per individual no longer applies.

Common questions

  • Not for every change. The qualified form is needed for share transfers, founding documents, a change of director and changes to the voting or share ratio. A change of office, name or business activities only needs a written decision.

  • Usually a few working days from receiving all documents. It depends on the type of change, how complete the documents are and the registry's workload.

  • The court fee is EUR 50 per application, however many changes it contains. We agree our fee as a fixed sum in advance and send a quote within 1 working day. Registering the beneficial owner costs EUR 50 excluding VAT and carries no court fee.

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This page is for general information, reflects Slovak law at the time of writing and is not a substitute for advice on your particular matter.