Company Amendments in Liechtenstein: Directors, Address, Statutes and Capital

The persons obliged to file sign the filing themselves. Filing for third parties and holding the board seat under PGR Art. 180a are trustee activities under the Trustee Act, and that seat needs a Trustee Act licence or a licence treated as equal under Art. 180a(2). We prepare and coordinate; we do not advise on a specific case.

No. We prepare the resolutions and the file and coordinate the parties; the licensed Liechtenstein trustee named in your engagement letter files the change, and the obliged persons sign. The Office of Justice draws up no deeds or contracts apart from the public deeds the law requires, and it helps with the submission.

The persons obliged to file sign personally and cannot be represented by another person or a third party unless a law or ordinance says otherwise. A written filing needs certified signatures, and a deed made outside the EEA needs an apostille or legalisation. The licensed trustee prepares and submits; the obliged persons sign.

The statute says without delay and gives no day count. A 14-day period runs only once the Office of Justice calls on the persons obliged to file. The one fixed 30-day clock is the UBO report, and since the cyberattack of 30 July 2026, deadlines that cannot be met because of the limited register access remain suspended.

Where the register no longer matches the facts, the Office of Justice calls on the persons obliged to file to make the change within 14 days, threatening an administrative fine or, in serious cases, imposing one at once. If neither a filing nor an objection follows, it makes the entry ex officio and fines the defaulting party.

For an AG or GmbH, statute amendments, including name and purpose, capital increases and decreases, the acceptance of each new GmbH contribution and a GmbH share transfer need a public deed. A board member, a signatory, an address with the seat unchanged and the Repräsentant are plain filings; no deed is named for the filing of a board change.

Under the fee ordinance of 1 August 2024: board member or signature CHF 40, Repräsentant or delivery address CHF 30, seat move from CHF 100, move abroad CHF 600, and for a capital change 50 % of the CHF 700 basic fee plus a surcharge on capital above CHF 200,000. Changes entered together add up. Our pricing is on request.

Yes, by a statute amendment recorded in a public deed. The register fee is CHF 100 for the entry of a new firm name or purpose; the statute-amendment fee of 40 % of the basic fee (20 % if minor) may be added. The public-deed fee for a simple amendment not touching the capital, such as a firm name, is CHF 200.

A seat move within Liechtenstein is filed with the commercial register; where the seat is in the articles, a statute change by public deed follows. The register fee for a seat move, new address included, is CHF 100; the statute-amendment fee may be added where the articles change. A registered signatory can file a business address change with the seat unchanged.

Yes, without dissolution, but only with a permit of the Office of Justice, and the register fee for moving a domestic legal person abroad is CHF 600. The foreign procedure is handled by the licensed partner or a lawyer. Mergers and conversions are a separate service, described on our restructuring page.

Both need a public deed. A GmbH increase needs a deed of the acceptance of each new contribution, and an AG increase is filed with a bank confirmation of the deposit. An AG reduction needs a provision in the articles and two thirds of the votes represented; payments to shareholders follow only after the creditor period.

Both roles must stay filled. At least one board member with power to manage and represent needs a Trustee Act licence or an equal licence (Art. 180a(2)); paragraph 3 exempts entities needing a managing director under the Trade Act or another special act. The Repräsentant must be an EEA national permanently resident in Liechtenstein, unless government consent lifts the duty.

Where owners or controllers change, the entity reports the change to the UBO register within 30 days of knowledge, and a breach can be fined up to CHF 200,000. Since the cyberattack of 30 July 2026, deadlines that cannot be met because of the limited register access remain suspended; no end date is published.

The diary moment of the filing fixes the time of entry. Against third parties the entry takes effect the next working day after publication, where prescribed. For acts within fifteen days after the entry takes effect, an AG or GmbH cannot hold a fact against a third party who proves they neither knew nor had to know it.

Register entries are made in German. Supporting documents may be filed in another language, and the Office of Justice may require a certified translation where inspection by third parties would suffer. A deed made abroad is accepted from an officer competent where it was made; from outside the EEA it needs an apostille or legalisation.