INSTRUCTIONS FOR INCORPORATION OF S.R.L.
The
“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada”
(S.R.L.) must be incorporated by at least two persons,
who must be present before a Costa Rican Notary Public
to do so, and must sign the incorporation deed in the
Notary's Protocole Book. For the incorporators we need
to have their full names, passport numbers, marital status
(i.e. single, married once, married twice, divorced once,
widow, etc.), place of residence and occupation, we also
need to receive by fax ([011][506]2047872 a copy of their
passports.
The
corporation must be provided with at least one Manager,
although there is no limitation as to how many managers
it can have. The manager position(s) must be occupied
by individuals (which might be the same people incorporating
the company), for whom we must have full names, passport
numbers, marital status (i.e. single, married once, married
twice, divorced once, widow, etc.), place of residence
and occupation, we also need to receive by fax ([011][506]2047872
a copy of their passports.
There
must also be a decision on the powers of attorney to be
given to the manager or managers, so they can be the legal
representatives of the corporation (normally at least
one of them, or the only manager, has a full power of
attorney without limitations). The power(s) of attorney
may be limited up to a certain amount or to certain actions
(i.e. one may require an authorization of the shareholders
to sell or encumber land), or one may require the joint
action of two of the representatives for some actions
or for transactions of more than a certain amount.
A
name must also be chosen. Such name can
be in any language; and must not be similar to any existing
corporate name (a Register search must be performed in
order to verify if there is no similar name already registered).
The name may be a word with no meaning in any language.
We suggest to provide us with several name options in
order of priority to research them.
Finally,
the incorporation capital must be determined
(which we suggest to set at a minimum amount of ten thousand
colones); and the number of shares (since
individual shares cannot be divided, it must be a number
big enough to accommodate any transfer or distribution
of shares you may encounter in the near future: we normally
use 100 shares, but it could also be 1.000 or even more).
All
these appointments and characteristics may be changed
at any time by a shareholders meeting, in the event there
is a need to modify the company's By-Laws according to
new needs or requirements.