How to find a Romanian company's directors and shareholders

Two different questions hide inside "who is behind this company", and Romanian law answers them with two different documents. Who runs it and who formally owns it sits in the Trade Register, is public, and anyone can get it in minutes. Who ultimately controls it, through however many layers of other companies, sits in the UBO register, which has been access-restricted since 2022. Most checks only need the first answer.

Directors and formal shareholders: the Trade Register

The Trade Register certificate lists the company's directors (administratori) with the scope of their powers, and the direct shareholders (asociați or acționari) with their stakes. For the typical Romanian SRL with one or two individual owners, this closes the question completely: the same names are the owners, the managers and, in practice, the beneficial owners. The certificate is public by law, needs no justification to request, and our English-language service delivers it in about ten minutes for 79 RON, about €16.

Reading the answer correctly

A few Romanian specifics help. The director listed may be a professional manager with limited powers, so look at the mandate description, not just the name. Shareholdings are recorded with the stake percentages, and a 50/50 split between two people is common and worth noticing before a dispute lands in your project. For joint-stock companies (SA), the register shows the significant recorded data but shares can change hands without each transfer appearing the way SRL stakes do. And a name is just a name: Romanian registers record no date of birth in the public certificate, so for sanctions screening you will want the UBO route below.

When the shareholder is another company

Here the public trail forks. Option one, patient and free of access conditions: pull a certificate for the shareholder company, then for its shareholder, walking the chain until you reach human beings. Layered Romanian structures are usually shallow, two or three levels, so this works more often than you would expect, and each layer is another 79 RON and ten minutes. Option two, the formal answer in one document: the UBO extract, which names the natural persons who ultimately own or control the company, as declared under Romania's anti-money-laundering law. That register no longer being public, the practical way to obtain the extract from abroad is our UBO extract service, 149 RON, about €29, delivered in about ten minutes during registry hours.

History: who owned it before

The standard certificate shows today's situation. If your question is about the past, a director who left last year, a shareholder who sold out before the debts appeared, the document you want is the certificate with full history, which lists every recorded change since incorporation; see basic versus extended. Former involvement is exactly the kind of thing that vanishes from the current view and survives in the historical one.

Cross-checking the people

Names in hand, two further passes are cheap. The court portal shows whether the director's other companies keep ending up in litigation, covered in checking court cases. And the instant check report flags the company-level warning signs around the people, inactive status, cancelled VAT, insolvency mentions, in one minute for 39 RON. The wider context sits in the full due-diligence checklist.

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