How to Setup a Colombian Business
If you are wondering how to setup a Colombian business, then you have come to the right place.
CL&A provides expertise services for the creation or modification of corporate constitutions and businesses; all types of commercials contracts; labor contracts; purchase and sales agreements for all types of commercial transactions. Commercial transactions typically include a range of services from purchases of corporations to real estate transactions. Our firm also handles due diligence of investments that you may make in Colombia.
We walk our clients through the complicated process of setting up corporations inside Colombia. We save our clients time and headaches with our professional legal messenger services. Most clients only need to visit the notary with us for the majority of legal corporate legal services – and then sit back and wait for us to handle the rest.
Steps involved to setup a Colombian Corporation:
Foreigners can be owners of corporations without Colombian nationals, however banks will not let persons who do not posses a Colombian ID card from a citizen or foreign resident to open bank accounts.
Here is a quick outline of steps involved to setup a Colombian Corporation:
Drafting of the corporate constiution
Presentation & Application for Colombian Bank Account
Registration of permanent tax ID
Registration of tax ID to obtain permanent business license
Obtaining temporary tax id for corporation – legal representatives, and shareholders
Payment of fees at tax offices
Registration at Camara de Comercio
Funding of share holders
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James Lindzey founded the website ColombiaVisas.com, which is constantly updated with new information explaining visa resolutions, procedures, and laws in Colombia to expats. James has worked as a private investigator and paralegal in the United States through the 90s until he moved to Colombia in 2005. James arrived in Colombia in 2005 and started doing visas for expats, but currently works as Director of Legal Services for Visas by James, and Colombia Legal & Associates SAS since June of 2023.
Colombia Legal & Associates acquired the brand name Visas by James as it became a more familiar and easy way for foreigners to remember the business, than the previous Visas y Tramites Internacionales.
While MedellinLawyer.com focuses more on legal issues for expats, ColombiaVisas.com focuses more on visas, and holds the trademark Visas by James. ColombiaVisas.com is the oldest website and provider of visa information for expats in Colombia. We are proud to be the first and always on the cutting edge of providing interactive website content to our visitors.
In addition to our visa services our agency offers a full range of legal and accounting services to our clients. We are able to assist better in document collection services in the United States because of James previous legal experience in the United States.
