Overview
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Region | Africa |
| ISO 3166-1 | CV / CPV |
| Registry | DGRNI (Conservatória do Registo Comercial) |
| Last updated | 2026-05-06 |
Identifiers
Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Cabo Verde and submit them as strings on the application body.| API field | Local name | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
businessInfo.taxId | NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) | DNRE (Ministry of Finance) |
businessInfo.businessEntityId | Número do Registo Comercial | DGRNI (Conservatória do Registo Comercial) |
Sector regulators
BCV · UIF
Legal structures
| Local name | Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sociedade por Quotas | Lda. | Quota-based limited-liability company; the standard SME vehicle; managed by one or more gerentes; no minimum capital since the 2019 reform. Equivalent to a US LLC. |
| Sociedade Anónima | SA | Joint-stock company with transferable shares and separate legal personality; minimum share capital required; suited for larger capital investments and institutional shareholders. Equivalent to a US C-Corp. |
| Sociedade Cooperativa | — | Member-owned cooperative governed by specific cooperative legislation; profits distributed according to member participation rather than capital contribution. Closest US equivalent: Cooperative. |
How documents combine
For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.| Evidence area | Documents needed |
|---|---|
| Legal Registration | Certidão do Registo Comercial |
| Constitutive Documents | Any one of: Estatutos · Pacto Social |
| Tax Registration | Cartão NIF |
| Operating Permit | Alvará de Actividade |
| Ownership Records | Estatutos |
| Governance Records | All required: Estatutos + Acta de Nomeação |
| Signing Authority | Any one of: Acta da Assembleia Geral · Procuração Notarial |
| Address | Any one of: Contrato de Arrendamento · Recibo de Serviços · Extrato Bancário |
Documents to collect
The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.| Document | Proves |
|---|---|
| Certidão do Registo Comercial (DGRNI) | Legal Registration |
| Estatutos | Constitutive Documents, Ownership Records, Governance Records |
| Pacto Social | Constitutive Documents |
| Cartão NIF | Tax Registration |
| Alvará de Actividade | Operating Permit |
| Acta de Nomeação | Governance Records |
| Acta da Assembleia Geral | Signing Authority |
| Procuração Notarial | Signing Authority |
| Contrato de Arrendamento | Address |
| Recibo de Serviços (≤90 dias) | Address |
| Extrato Bancário (≤90 dias) | Address |
| Sector-Specific License | Licença BCV |
Collection notes
- Legal Registration: Issued same-day via Empresa no Dia at Casa do Cidadão; evidences legal existence and registration number.
- Constitutive Documents: Private document for Lda; public deed (escritura pública) required if contributions are in kind.
- Tax Registration: Issued by DNRE; bundled with commercial registration via Empresa no Dia.
- Operating Permit: Issued by Câmara Municipal for retail/general trade; sector-specific variants issued by line ministries.
- Sector-Specific License: Required for banking, insurance, capital markets, microfinance, and payment services — all supervised by BCV.
- Ownership Records: Estatutos record the initial quota / share distribution and name founding gerentes; post-formation ownership changes are recorded via Acta de Cessão de Quotas filed at DGRNI.
- Governance Records: Estatutos name founding gerentes/administradores; subsequent changes filed via Acta de Nomeação at DGRNI.
- Signing Authority: Board resolution (Acta) for corporate signatories; notarised power of attorney (Procuração) for external representatives.
- Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
Person roles
When you submit a person on the application body, set theirrole to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.
| Local role | Canonical API role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Gerente | LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE | Appointed manager of Lda; legally represents company to third parties. |
| Administrador | CONTROLLING_PERSON | Executive director in SA; day-to-day management authority. |
| Presidente do Conselho de Administração | CONTROLLING_PERSON | Chair of the SA board; governance not operational. |
| Mandatário / Procurador | LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE | Holder of notarised Procuração; authorised to act on company’s behalf. |
Notes
- Cabo Verde is not OHADA; its company law is Portuguese-origin, now fully replaced by the 2019 Código das Sociedades Comerciais (Decreto-Legislativo nº 2/2019, in force 22 October 2019) — do not apply OHADA SARL/SA templates.
- Bearer shares were abolished by the 2019 code; all shares must be nominative. Pre-2019 bearer shares were required to convert to nominative by 22 January 2021 (Miranda Advogados, October 2019 alert).
- Apostille is available: Cabo Verde acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention (accession 7-V-2009, in force 13-II-2010 per HCCH status table).
- The Empresa no Dia one-stop service (Casa do Cidadão counters, run by DGRNI) issues the commercial certificate, NIF, and INPS registration simultaneously for eligible structures; this compressed timeline is the default.