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UALegal address
The exact address on the company’s registry card in the Business Register. It may be in Estonia or abroad.
Company address in Estonia
Legal address and contact person for your Estonian OÜ
Every Estonian OÜ has a legal address in the Business Register, in Estonia or abroad. If it is abroad, the company must also have a contact person in Estonia. Our partner firm can provide either one, and we keep your books wherever the address is.
- Through our partner firm
- Included for year one when you register an OÜ with us
- Your books kept wherever the address is
Does your OÜ need a contact person?
One question decides it: where the company’s address is. Where the board lives, or where you do business, doesn’t.
Where is your company’s address in the register?
In Estonia
No contact person needed
That is all the rule asks, wherever the owners and the board live. No address of your own in Estonia? Our partner firm can give the company one.
Abroad
A contact person in Estonia is required
Documents for the company are delivered to them, and their address counts as the company’s. Only five kinds of professional may act — our partner firm can.
- A notary
- An advocate or a law firm’s owner
- A sworn auditor or an audit firm
- A non-resident’s tax representative
- A trust and company service provider
Registered office or contact person: what’s the difference?
Three words that sound alike and mean different things. Your registry card shows all three.
Registered office
The location your articles of association name: a city or a rural municipality, not a street. A move inside it changes only the address.
Contact person
A person in Estonia to whom documents for the company are delivered. Needed only when the address is abroad — then their address counts as the company’s.
What does the legal address service include?
Either an address in Estonia or a contact person, arranged through our partner firm, with the register filing prepared with you.
What’s included
A legal address in Estonia
Our partner firm’s address becomes your company’s address in the register — so no contact person is needed.
Or a contact person, if the address stays abroad
The partner firm acts as the company’s contact person in Estonia. Its signed consent goes to the register with the application.
The register filing, prepared with you
We prepare the change in the e-Business Register; a member of the management board signs it online.
The contact person’s term, watched
The term is entered in the register, and when it ends the contact person is removed automatically — what follows. We note the date and remind you before it comes.
Your books, wherever the address is
Bookkeeping, VAT returns and the annual report carry on as before — see monthly bookkeeping.
Not included
An office or a place to work
A legal address is where the company is registered and its letters arrive, not a desk or a meeting room.
Your own residence or tax residency
The company’s address doesn’t change where you live or where you pay personal tax — those are separate questions.
Legal advice on the agreement
What the agreement with the partner firm says is a question for a lawyer. We explain the rule and the paperwork.
Your own notary or law firm
Prefer a notary, an advocate or an auditor you already work with? That’s your choice — we tell you what to ask them.
How do we set it up?
Four steps. You always know whose turn it is.
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Tell us where the company stands
One message
Its registry code, where its address is now, and whether you want an address in Estonia or a contact person.
You
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We reply with what it takes
Within one working day
Which one the company needs, the partner firm’s terms and the price — in writing, before anything is signed.
Numerra
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We prepare the application
The new address, or the contact person with their consent, entered in the e-Business Register with you.
Numerra and the partner firm
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A board member signs; the registrar reviews it
The registrar reviews the application within 5 working days of receiving it — up to 3 months where special checks are needed.
You, then the register
How do you change your company’s legal address in Estonia?
With one application in the e-Business Register, signed by a board member. Inside the same city or rural municipality it costs no state fee; a move to another one also changes the articles of association.
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Open the company in the e-Business Register
Log in with an ID card, Smart-ID or Mobile-ID, open the company and choose “Change data”.
Board member
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Enter the new address
In the “Contacts” part of the application. Moving to another municipality? Add new articles of association — an OÜ may use the register’s standard ones — and the decision approving them.
Board member
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Sign, and pay the fee if one is due
At least one board member signs digitally. A state fee is due only when the municipality changes.
Board member
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The registrar reviews it
Within 5 working days
The law gives the registrar 5 working days from receiving it — up to 3 months where special checks are needed.
The register
Step by step, from the register itself: Changing address and contact details (RIK)
What does it cost?
For a new company
Included for the first year
Registering an OÜ with us is €545 in total: the state fee, a legal address in Estonia or a contact person if the address stays abroad for the first year, and our guidance through the registration.
For a company that already exists
Price on request
Tell us which one your company needs. You get the partner firm’s terms and the price in writing before anything is signed.
Common questions
Does every Estonian OÜ need a contact person?
No. Only a company whose address in the register is abroad must designate one. A company with an address in Estonia doesn’t need one, whoever owns it and wherever the board lives.
Can the legal address of an OÜ be outside Estonia?
Yes. The address on the registry card may be abroad. Then the company must designate a contact person in Estonia, and only the professionals the Commercial Register Act names may act: a notary, an advocate or a law firm’s owner, a sworn auditor or an audit firm, a non-resident’s tax representative, or a trust and company service provider.
What does a contact person do?
Receives in Estonia the company’s procedural documents and the declarations addressed to it. A document delivered to the contact person counts as delivered to the company, and their address is treated as the company’s.
How long does a change of legal address take?
The registrar reviews the application within 5 working days of receiving it, and may extend that to 3 months where special checks are needed. Inside the same city or rural municipality there is no state fee.
Which law sets the rule?
The Commercial Register Act, § 24. The rule used to sit in the Commercial Code, but that provision has been repealed — so a page that still cites the Commercial Code for it is out of date.
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Which one does your company need?
Tell us the company’s registry code and where its address is now. We reply with what it needs, the partner firm’s terms and the price.
We reply within one working day