Company Registration in Rayong — End-to-End Incorporation by Suwanvara Law Firm
Thailand offers several legal-entity forms. The most common is the private limited company (Ltd), followed by the limited partnership; the public limited company is used by larger ventures that raise capital from the public. A limited company must have at least the statutory minimum number of shareholders and a registered capital appropriate to the business. The process — name reservation, drafting the memorandum of association, the statutory meeting, and obtaining the certificate from the Department of Business Development — is relatively quick when documents are ready. We structure the shareholding and prepare the paperwork correctly from the start to avoid delays.
Scope of company registration work in Rayong
- Name reservation and availability check
- Drafting of Memorandum and Articles of Association
- Filing with the Department of Business Development (DBD)
- VAT and social-security employer registration
- Foreign Business Licence (FBL) for foreign-owned ventures
Process
- 1Initial consultation on the right structure
- 2Founder documents, office address, capital preparation
- 3Name reservation with DBD
- 4Statutory meeting and incorporation filing within 1-2 weeks
- 5VAT registration (if turnover exceeds THB 1.8M/year) and social security
Documents to prepare
- •Thai ID or passport of all shareholders and directors
- •Landlord consent for the registered office
- •Map showing office location
- •Office lease agreement or title deed for the registered address
About our team in Rayong
Rayong is the heart of the EEC and Thailand's largest petrochemical and automotive base (Map Ta Phut, Amata City, Eastern Seaboard). Matters here center on factories and investment — labor and termination, import-export customs, factory environmental issues, BOI, and commercial contracts.
We serve factories and operators across the EEC industrial estates with a bilingual Thai-English-Chinese team specializing in labor, customs, and factory-environmental matters.
Courts we appear at in Rayong
- •Rayong Provincial Court
- •Region 2 Labor Court
- •Rayong Juvenile and Family Court
Rayong, Chonburi, and Chanthaburi
Contact our Rayong attorneys
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Further reading — related guide
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