Curaçao company search: an open register, written in Dutch
Curaçao's register is kept by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and anyone may inspect it for a small fee. Since April 2025 you can buy an extract online and receive the PDF by email.
The extract names the managing and supervisory directors and anyone who can sign. Shareholders have no field on it, and the beneficial owner register is closed.
Set in the law that runs the register. Searching from your country.
Curaçao follows the Dutch model, so its register is far more open than those of the island centres around it. You'll learn a lot for very little money. The catch is the language: the extract arrives in Dutch legal terms, and the most useful fact is often what isn't on it.
Key takeaways
- The Chamber of Commerce and Industry keeps Curaçao's commercial register, open to anyone who pays.
- The law caps an online extract at NAf 2.50 and a paper one at NAf 20.
- Every managing and supervisory director and every authorised signatory is registered.
- Shareholders have no field; the beneficial owner register is closed to the public.
- Companies on a Chamber dissolution list are dissolved six weeks after it's published.
Buying a Curaçao extract online
In April 2025 the Chamber started selling commercial register extracts online, around the clock and from anywhere, through the Registry section of its website.
- Find the companyBy name or by its register number, which must be printed on its invoices and letters.
- Pay through SENTOOThe local online payment platform the Chamber named at launch.
- Get the PDF by emailStraight away, without visiting the island.
The Chamber's site sits behind an automated visitor check, so a slow first load is normal. The law also allows a yearly online subscription for people who check companies often.
Start from the register number on the company's invoice: it removes any doubt about which entity you're buying.
What a Curaçao search can cost at most
Articles 16 and 17 of the Handelsregisterverordening set ceilings; the Chamber sets its actual price inside them. Amounts are in guilders, which became the Caribbean guilder (XCG) at par in March 2025, pegged at 1.79 to the US dollar.
The legal maximum. The Chamber's own price may be lower.
Checking a Curaçao company costs less than a coffee.
Reading a Curaçao extract, line by line
The Handelsregisterbesluit 2009 lists what each registration must hold. Here are the headings you'll meet, with what they mean.
| HandelsnaamTrade name | The registered name and any other names it trades under |
|---|---|
| RechtsvormLegal form | N.V., B.V., foundation or other |
| Datum oprichtingDate formed | With the deed and articles on file |
| BedrijfsomschrijvingActivities | What the company says it does |
| BestuurderManaging director | Each one by name, and whether they sign alone or jointly |
| CommissarisSupervisory director | Only if the company has a supervisory board |
| ProcuratiehouderAuthorised signatory | Anyone else with power to sign, and its limits |
| AandeelhoudersShareholders | No such heading |
Dissolution, bankruptcy and liquidators are entered too, with dates.
Check the signing power line before you rely on anyone's signature.
Who is named, and who stays out of view
Managing directors, supervisory directors and authorised signatories, with the personal data the law requires, including address, date and place of birth and nationality. For a foundation, its founders too.
Shareholders and later share transfers. Beneficial owners go into the Chamber's separate owner register, open only to designated authorities and to each owner for their own entry. Small companies file no accounts.
One route does show a shareholder: the founding deed sits in the file and names whoever subscribed the first shares. And when shareholders manage the company themselves, they're registered as its directors.
Directors are public in Curaçao; ownership mostly isn't.
Dissolution lists and the six-week clock
The Chamber clears out companies that stop meeting the basics. It publishes a proposed dissolution list with each company's number, name and reason, then dissolves every one still on it six weeks later.
A company on a current list is six weeks from ceasing to exist.
Gaming companies: match two registers
Curaçao's gaming law licenses the company itself, and the Gaming Authority keeps a public licence register. A licence is only as good as the company holding it, so read both and make them agree.
Gaming Authority register
- Licence type and status
- Licensee name
- Its Chamber number
Chamber extract
- Same number, same name
- Not dissolved
- Director on the island
In 2026 a company removed from the Chamber register was reported as still tied to live gaming sites. Find the licence on the Gaming Authority's licence register, then buy the extract.
A live licence on a dissolved company is a red flag, not a technicality.
What your own Curaçao B.V. shows
A gaming company needs a director who lives on the island, and ours is in the price. That shapes what a search of your company shows:
Decide who founds the company before the notary signs, not after.
Curaçao company search answers
Is there a free Curaçao company search?
Does Curaçao issue a certificate of good standing?
Who apostilles a Curaçao extract?
Can I see who owns a Curaçao company?
What keeps a Curaçao company off a dissolution list?
Changelog
- 13 November 2026: first published.
Checking Curaçao because you need a gaming company there?
US$6,490 for year one and US$4,890 a year, with the resident director the licence needs.