Official company documents from 1,120,355 companies in Italy
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What is Dato Capital Italy
Dato Capital Italy is a dedicated search engine for the companies and directors of Italy. Search by company name or codice fiscale to find a company, its legal form, its status and its history, and the people who run it, with links to companies and directors of the same name in other countries.
What Italian companies are used for
Italy is one of the largest economies in Europe and a world reference in manufacturing, machinery, fashion, design, food and wine. Its economy rests on a dense network of small and medium-sized enterprises, many of them family-owned, grouped in industrial districts across the regions. The limited liability company (S.r.l.) is the standard form, the simplified S.r.l. serves new and small ventures, the joint-stock company (S.p.A.) carries larger and listed groups, and partnerships (S.n.c., S.a.s.) remain common among local businesses.
Typical company documents
The usual documents of an Italian company are its deed of incorporation and articles of association, its register extract (visura camerale), its annual financial statements, and the filings of each change: appointments and resignations of directors, transfers of the registered office, amendments to the articles, capital changes, mergers and demergers, dissolution and liquidation.
Financial statements
Companies with share capital (S.r.l. and S.p.A.) file their annual financial statements with the Business Register, where they can be obtained. Partnerships do not file financial statements.
Directors
The directors and statutory auditors of a company are recorded in the Business Register and appear in its register extract, with each appointment and resignation.
Shareholders
The members of an S.r.l. and their quotas are recorded in the Business Register. A joint-stock company files the list of its shareholders with its annual financial statements.
Beneficial ownership
Companies report their beneficial owners to a register kept by the Chambers of Commerce; access is limited to the authorities and to persons with a legitimate interest.
Company numbers
Every company is identified by its codice fiscale, which for most companies is also its VAT number (partita IVA). A search by number finds an exact company faster than a search by name.
