Ready-Made Companies in Italy

No. Every company on the list is a registered S.r.l. that has never traded, so it has no staff, contracts, customers or revenue. Buying a trading business is a different deal, a cessione d'azienda or the quotas of an operating company, with full commercial due diligence. That kind of acquisition is not what this page sells.

The records show it. The buyer reads the visura ordinaria (EUR 5.00) and visura storica (EUR 6.00), the accounts deposited within 30 days of each approval (Art. 2478-bis c.c.), the VAT returns, due even with no operations (Art. 8(1) D.P.R. 322/1998), the paid-up capital, any attachment on the quota and, where one exists, the DURC.

Yes. The quotas of an S.r.l. are freely transferable between living persons unless the articles provide otherwise (Art. 2469(1) c.c.), and no minimum holding period applies to a company that has never traded. The transfer is a cessione di quote, signed before a notary or digitally, and filed at the Register of Companies.

Not for the transfer alone. A notary can authenticate the signatures, in person or through an attorney, or each party signs with a qualified digital signature and an authorised intermediary files within 30 days (Art. 36(1-bis) D.L. 112/2008). Whether a foreign digital signature is accepted is checked case by case. A new name, object, capital or municipality needs a notarial minute.

Towards the company, from the filing of the transfer deed at the Register of Companies, not from the day of signature (Art. 2470(1) c.c.). The notary or the intermediary has 30 days to file, so the gap between signing and filing is the time to keep short; we prepare the filing papers before the deed is signed.

With the documents and tax codes in hand, signing and filing usually fall within a few days and the Register entry within about a week. The law allows 30 days to file, and for a Comunicazione Unica filing the Chamber confirms within 5 days. Our 48 hours run from the signed deed: practice, not a legal term.

Stamp duty of EUR 15.00 through the notary plus EUR 65.00 on the filing, a chamber fee of EUR 90 (EUR 65 + EUR 90 + EUR 90 with the sole-member notice), and registration tax of EUR 200 in fixed measure. A change of directors costs EUR 65 + EUR 90. These are the 2026 tables; our own fee is quoted on request.

The sole-member declaration within 30 days of the change (Art. 2470 c.c.) and the new directors within 30 days of appointment (Art. 2383(4) c.c.), each sole or managing director with a personal PEC distinct from the company's. Without the sole-member publicity, a sole member answers without limit for that period's debts if the company becomes insolvent (Art. 2462(2) c.c.).

Yes. The natural-person rule of the S.r.l. semplificata (simplified S.r.l.) applies at incorporation. When a company becomes a member, the S.r.l.s. turns into an ordinary low-capital S.r.l. and drops "semplificata" from its name, with no prior conversion (Art. 2463(4) c.c.; MIMIT opinion of 15 February 2016).

A non-EU person may hold quotas on condition of reciprocity (Art. 16 disp. prel. c.c.), and the Civil Code sets no residence requirement for directors (Art. 2383(4) c.c.). Whether a given country meets the reciprocity condition is checked for each buyer before the deed; we give no general answer for any one country.

Yes. The Italian limited-liability company is the società a responsabilità limitata, the S.r.l. Its capital is divided into quotas held by its members rather than into shares, and those quotas are what a buyer takes over. Every company on our list is an S.r.l. of this kind, registered and never traded.

Yes. The statute names only the municipality of the seat, so a move within the same municipality is a filing (Art. 2463 c.c.), EUR 65 + EUR 30. A new name, object or capital, or a seat in another municipality, amends the statute by notarial minute (Art. 2480 c.c.). A capital increase waits until earlier contributions are paid (Art. 2481 c.c.).

We claim no advantage for a company because of its age, and no source we rely on gives one. What a buyer weighs is the record: the visura storica, the deposited accounts, the VAT filings and any entry about dissolution or liquidation. The year of incorporation is shown in the list for information only.

A capital company is dissolved without liquidation after 5 consecutive years without accounts only together with a second condition (Art. 40 D.L. 76/2020), so a recently formed S.r.l. is not exposed on that ground. Separately, a company classed as non-operating (società di comodo) pays an IRES surcharge of 10.5 points (Agenzia delle Entrate).

Yes. The beneficial-owner register is active, with D.Lgs. 210/2025 in force since 9 January 2026, and a change of ownership is a filing event for the company. We prepare the beneficial-owner details together with the transfer papers, so the new owner can be recorded once the takeover is filed.