Foreign company documents
Registry extracts, articles and resolutions. They cause more delay than any other class of document, and for three predictable reasons: they expire, they are worded too generally, and their format is unfamiliar here.
In brief
- Document category
- Mali ve ticari
- Apostille
- Depends on the case
- Validity
- Registry extracts describe a present state and are expected to be recent
Company formation, branch registration, tenders, banking and litigation all draw on documents issued by a foreign company registry or produced by a foreign company itself.
What the class covers
- Registry extracts and certificates of incorporation
- Articles of association
- Board or shareholder resolutions
- Certificates of good standing
- Financial statements, where a procedure requires them
⭐ Three predictable failures
Expiry. Registry extracts describe a present state and are expected to be recent. One obtained months ahead takes its apostille and translation down with it.
Wording. A resolution must authorise the specific act. Turkish institutions read authority narrowly, and a generally worded resolution usually has to be passed again abroad — which means another board meeting, another apostille and another translation.
Format. Some registries issue documents with no signature, verified only online. Ask the receiving institution in advance whether that form is accepted; certification cannot add what the document does not carry.
Certification
Apostille in the country that issued the document, then sworn Turkish translation, then notarial certification where required. Türkiye cannot apostille a foreign registry extract.
⚠ Translate the set together
Articles, extracts and resolutions share terminology: company organs, officer titles, share classes, capital descriptions. Translated piecemeal, the same term appears differently across a file, and an institution comparing two documents will raise it.
Everything on the page
Registry stamps, verification codes, apostille text and annotations are all translated. Certification marks are read as carefully as the content.
Where it fits
Formation is described on setting up a company with foreign shareholders, and the certification detail on company documents issued abroad.
Group ownership chains
Where the shareholder is part of a group, institutions sometimes want to see ownership traced up to a parent, which means registry documents from two or three countries at once. Each follows its own apostille route and each expires on its own schedule.
Ask at the outset how far up the chain the institution wants to see. Collecting one level at a time, as each is requested, is what turns a two-week exercise into a three-month one.
Certificates of good standing
These describe a present state and age quickly, like registry extracts. Obtain them close to the date they will be used rather than alongside the slower documents in the file.
Frequently asked questions
Recent. It describes a present state and ages quickly.
Usually because it was worded too generally. Ask the institution for the wording it needs.
Ask whether an apostille is available and whether the institution accepts that form.
No. Only the country whose registry issued them.
So shared corporate terminology is rendered the same way across the whole file.
Ask the institution at the outset; collecting one level at a time is what turns weeks into months.
They describe a present state and age quickly. Obtain them close to use.