I have a lawyer in Romania. Do I need to go to Romania in person in order to start my Business in Romania?

No. I may go either to a notary in my home city outside Romania, or to a Romanian Embassy or Consulate, to prepare the following documents and send them to my lawyer in Romania:

• power of attorney for the lawyer
• power of attorney for the accounting firm, if I have one already, for processing everything in relation to the Romanian Tax Agency and being able to upload my tax statements online to the Romanian Tax Agency’s portal
• statement that I have the full capacity to act as a shareholder in the Romanian company and that I do not have any debt to the Romanian state
• signature specimen

It would take approximately 1 month in total, at regular pace, until I am able to hire personnel. By selecting fast-track procedures at the Trade Registry, the lawyer could bring this down to ~3 weeks. For the lawyer it takes ~2 weeks to have everything done at the Romanian Trade Registry from the moment when (s)he has all the papers from me - so it depends on me as to how fast I am able to obtain the documents above

Step 1. Check for an available name for my Business in Romania

The lawyer can do this check for me at the Trade Registry. I can express more options - and the first available one will be the winner

Step 2. Articles of Incorporation & Statute

The lawyer will need to prepare for me the Articles of Incorporation & the Statute

Step 3. Trade Registry

The lawyer goes with the documents to the Romanian Trade Registry and files the Articles of Incorporation & the Statute