Start your Monaco company file
Tell us what you want to set up, buy or run in Monaco, and who will stand behind it. We read the activity against what the authorisation can cover, and answer by email with the documents your file still needs.
Not ready for the whole picture? You can ask one question first.
How it works
1. You send this form. The activity, the people behind it and the premises are what the Direction du Développement Économique (DDE) examines, so they are what the form asks for first.
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you describe the plan
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we answer with what is missing
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the file goes in
The three moves between this form and an open authorisation file: you describe the plan, we answer with what is missing, the file goes in
2. We read it and reply. The answer comes from [email protected] and names the missing documents, plus any point where the activity as described would need a different company form or its own licence.
3. We open the authorisation file. Each foreign partner and each foreign gérant (manager) applies in their own name (Loi n° 1.144, Arts. 4 and 7), and the rest of company formation in Monaco follows in the order the statute sets.
Your details and your plan
Four blocks, one page, no account to create. Fields marked * are required; the rest exist so the first reply can be specific instead of a list of questions back at you.
Button: Send this and get the document list.
What we will need from you
What follows the form is documentary and differs by entity. The DDE publishes the application form n° 355-04-05-26, a Note de renseignements individuels for each shareholder and a note on the professional premises (DDE procedure page, French original); the rest depends on the form you choose.
| Entity | Constitutive deed | Capital evidence | Premises document | Also required |
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| SARL | Statutes by private deed or notarial deed; notarial form where the capital includes real property. Two originals for the DDE | EUR 15,000 minimum, fully subscribed; bank attestation of release of the legal minimum from a credit institution established in the Principality | Occupation title: commercial lease, short-term lease or convention d'occupation précaire, registered with the Direction des Services Fiscaux | Form n° 355-04-05-26, one Note de renseignements individuels per partner, the premises note. RCI within one month, duty EUR 75 |
| SURL | As the SARL; the sole member cannot delegate the powers of the members' meeting | EUR 8,000 where the sole member is a natural person, EUR 15,000 where it is a legal person | As the SARL | As the SARL. RCI within one month, duty EUR 75 |
| SAM | Acte en brevet of the statutes and the subscription and payment declaration. The DDE page requires a Monegasque notary; Loi n° 1.573 of 8 April 2025 also allows a private deed, and the official material does not resolve the two | EUR 150,000 fully subscribed, at least one quarter of each shareholder's cash shares paid up, the balance called within 18 months of the first constitutive meeting (Loi n° 1.573) | Occupation title; a SAM may also sit in private offices of a domiciliation business, with no cap stated | Ministerial decree published in the Journal de Monaco; constitution formalities within three months of the decree, on pain of nullity. RCI within three months of publication, duty EUR 100 |
| SNC and SCS | Statutes; the raison sociale may carry partners' names only | No minimum capital | Occupation title | Form n° 355-04-05-26 and the individual notes. RCI within one month, duty EUR 75 |
| Sole trader (entreprise en nom personnel) | None: the authorisation is applied for en nom personnel | No capital concept | Occupation title | An artisanal or liberal activity is not entered in the RCI at all |
| Branch (succursale) | The parent's own documents, plus the appointment of a director for the Monegasque establishment; prior authorisation of the Minister of State (Loi n° 1.144, Art. 5 al. 2) | None of its own | Occupation title | RCI within one month, duty EUR 75. No Journal de Monaco publicity for foreign companies |
| Bureau administratif | No Monegasque deed; an economic information note on the group, its activities, its staff and its beneficial owner | None | Occupation title | Not entered in the RCI: the ministerial authorisation goes straight to the NIS step at IMSEE |
Orientation, not a filing list. The DDE publishes the forms, the individual notes and the premises title, and no exhaustive per-entity checklist exists in the official material. Sources: the French DDE procedure pages and Loi n° 1.573, read 2026-09-06.
How we handle what you send
The form takes no attachments. What you type reaches [email protected] through our own handler, never a third-party form service, and the address you give is used to answer you and for nothing else. Monaco's Loi n° 1.565 of 3 December 2024 governs that processing, with the GDPR for readers inside the EU. How long an enquiry is kept is set out in the privacy policy.
Answered with the article
+ What happens after I submit this form?
It reaches [email protected] through a function on this site. We read the activity against what the Direction du Développement Économique can authorise, then answer by email with the documents the file still needs and with anything in your description that would change the company form or pull in a separate licence. No response time is promised here.
+ Do I have to know the company form before I fill this in?
No. entity_type carries a "not decided yet" option. Capital is one of the things that settles it: EUR 15,000 for an SARL, EUR 8,000 for a SURL whose sole member is a natural person and EUR 15,000 where that member is a company, EUR 150,000 for a SAM (Loi n° 1.573 of 8 April 2025; DDE company-form pages read 2026-09-06).
+ Can the formation be done without my coming to Monaco?
No. Expect to come at least once. Cash capital is released into an account opened for that purpose with a credit institution established in the Principality; a SAM's statutes run through the acte en brevet the DDE procedure page puts before a Monegasque notary; and the premises, which the authorisation names, are part of what is examined.
+ Do I upload my passport or my bank statements here?
No. The form takes no attachments, which is why source_of_funds_ack is an acknowledgement and not an upload. Identity and source-of-funds documents are asked for afterwards, over a secure link, so that no personal document sits on a static host or travels through an inbox it was never meant for.
+ Can you be the manager or the shareholder so that I do not have to be?
No. Lending a name to obtain an authorisation is an offence for both sides, the person who lends it and the person it benefits, punished by a fine of EUR 18,000 to 90,000 (Loi n° 1.144, Art. 15; Code pénal Art. 26). Substitution is also a ground to revoke an authorisation (Art. 9 4°).
Start your Monaco file
Tell us the activity, where it will be carried on and who will run it. One of us reads it and comes back with the questions the authorisation file will ask. Our fees are on request.
The authorisation is personal and non-transferable, and it names the activity and the premises. Nothing on this site is sold ready to trade.
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