In this guide
  1. Your founding deed, turned into a sworn text
  2. Who may swear it, and what you send in
  3. Cost, and how long you wait
  4. Where a translated deed gets used
  5. Easy mistakes with a founding deed

Your founding deed, turned into a sworn text

Your atto costitutivo is the deed that brought the company to life. A bank, a trade registry or a buyer abroad will want to read it in their own tongue. A certified translation of an Articles of Incorporation in Rome hands them that text with a court oath tied to it. The words then become hard to argue with.

What makes the new text official here is the oath, not the letterhead. With a certified translation of an Articles of Incorporation in Italy, a court-sworn translator signs the asseverazione, a formal oath that the new words match the old ones, in front of a clerk. The clerk stamps the set and logs it, so the far desk can trace it later.

Who may swear it, and what you send in

A sworn translation of an Articles of Incorporation in Rome has to come from a court-sworn translator, so a colleague with good English will not do. Send a clean scan of the whole deed, front to back, with every annex and the closing lines the notary wrote. Missing pages are the top cause of a held-up file.

Cost, and how long you wait

The translation cost for an Articles of Incorporation in Rome is set by the page, at about €30 a page, so a long deed with many annexes costs more than a short one. Plain work takes 2–4 business days. If a closing date is close, express work comes back in 24–48 hours.

Where a translated deed gets used

An official translation of an Articles of Incorporation in Rome tends to go to a foreign trade registry, a bank opening an account for the firm, or a buyer doing checks before a deal. Each of them reads the share capital, the object clause and the names of the founders. Keep all three exactly as the deed has them.

Easy mistakes with a founding deed

Do not tidy up the clause numbers. If clause four sits on the second page, it must sit there in the new file too, because a reader will cross-check the two side by side. Keep the firm's name in its Italian form as well, then add a short gloss in brackets. A renamed firm reads like a different firm.