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The commercial Colombian law states many business records that should be recorded even if you are a US citizen doing business in Colombia.

We have written a short summary of Colombia business records that are required to registered and the meaning.

Persons, acts and documents to be entered in the commercial register.

The following must be entered in the commercial register:

1) People professionally engaged in commerce and their auxiliaries, such as commission agents, brokers, agents of international company, representatives of national or foreign firms, who shall register within one month of the date on which they commence activities.

2) Marriage settlements, prenuptial agreements, and liquidations of marital partnerships, when the husband and wife or one of them is a trader or is doing business in Colombia.

(3) judicial interdiction or restriction to exercise business in Colombia pronounced against traders; orders imposing on a businessman a prohibition to engage in trade; preventive bankruptcy order and those entered into in bankruptcy proceedings; the declaration of bankruptcy and the appointment of a receiver and his removal; the holding of public offices that disqualify the exercise of trade, and in general, the incapacities or disqualifications provided for by law to be a trader or business;

(4) authorizations which, in accordance with the law, are granted to minors to engage in commerce, and the revocation thereof.

(5) any act by virtue of which the partial or general administration of the property or business of the trader is conferred, modified, or revoked:

(6) The opening of trading establishments and branches, and acts modifying or affecting the ownership thereof or their administration.

(7) The registry books of partners or shareholders, and those of the minutes of meetings and shareholders’ meetings.

8) Attachments and civil claims relating to rights whose mutation is subject to commercial registration.

9) The incorporation, additions, or amendments to the articles of association and the liquidation of commercial companies, as well as the appointment of legal representatives and liquidators, and their removal. Companies supervised by the Superintendency of Companies must comply, in addition to the formality of registration, with the requirements laid down in the legal provisions governing such supervision, and

10) All other acts and documents whose registration are required by law.

Please contact us if you require further information and we will help you find records of any Colombian business or company, including international corporations with affiliated offices or branches in Colombia.

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