Client onboarding questionnaire

The questionnaire we actually work from. Ten minutes here replaces the three rounds of email that otherwise come before anything can start.

How this works

Fill this in once and the first reply covers the whole structure rather than one question at a time: which form of company fits, what the notary will need from you, what has to exist before the company can trade, and in what order the steps run. Nothing here commits you to anything, and filling it in costs nothing.

Leave a field blank rather than guessing. A blank tells us a point is still open; a guess sends us down the wrong road and we find out three weeks later. If you do not yet know how many shareholders there will be, that is itself a useful answer.

Do not upload anything here. Identity documents, proof of address and source-of-funds papers are asked for later, through a secure link, once the structure is settled. This page stores nothing.

If you only have one question rather than a whole project, use the contact form instead.

The questionnaire

Fields marked * are required. Everything else is optional and a blank is an acceptable answer.

A. Contact

Who we write back to, and in which language.

With the country code, for example +39 for Italy. Optional: we work by email unless you ask otherwise.
Where you are tax resident. It decides which documents Italy asks you for and whether reciprocity has to be checked.
Italian documents stay in Italian. This is only the language we correspond in.
B. The company

What you want to end up with. If you are still choosing, the comparison is on Italian company types.

One per line. Give alternatives: the first choice is not always free at the register.
In plain words, not a legal object clause. It decides the activity code, whether an authorisation is needed and how a bank will read the file.
Leave it blank if it is not decided. We will tell you what the form you choose requires and what a bank expects to see.
A corporate shareholder means corporate documents, legalisation and a beneficial owner filing, so it changes the paperwork.
C. Services

Tick what you want us to handle. Nothing here is priced on this site; the quote comes after we read your answers.

For example crypto-asset services under MiCA, a payment institution, or an e-money institution.
D. Timing and context

When you need this to exist, and anything that does not fit the fields above.

Deadlines, a foreign parent company, a contract already signed, a previous refusal somewhere else. The awkward details are the useful ones.