Among the legal forms available to someone opening a business in Romania, the SRL-D — the limited liability company set up under the debutant regime — is the one that usually produces a long conversation before a single document is drafted. On paper it resembles an ordinary SRL. The difference sits in the conditions attached to the debutant status, and those conditions are the reason a file can run into trouble long after it was submitted, if nobody looked at them properly at the start.
ADISAF SRL, a business consultancy and administrative services firm based in Bucharest and active since 2015, lists the setting up of an SRL-D among the 24 services published on its website. It sits there next to SRL registration, PFA and sole trader or family enterprise registration, non-profit entities, and the forms that are requested far less often — SA, SNC, SCS and SCA. According to the information published by the company, every one of those files moves through the same four-step sequence: an initial discussion, preparation of the documentation, filing with the Trade Register, and handover of the resulting documents. For the debutant variant, the first of those steps carries unusual weight.
Why the first conversation carries the weight
A standard SRL file is, in procedural terms, a fairly predictable exercise. The founder decides on a name, an object of activity, a registered address and a share capital, and the documentation follows. The debutant form adds a layer on top of that: the applicant has to fit a profile defined by legislation, and the entity itself has to keep fitting that profile after registration. A founder who does not meet the conditions is not blocked from starting a business — the ordinary SRL route remains open — but a file built on the wrong assumption costs time that a new business rarely has to spare.
That is the practical argument for screening before drafting rather than after. The firm’s published process puts a discussion ahead of the paperwork, and in the debutant scenario that is the point at which the choice of legal form has to be settled. It establishes whether the SRL-D is the right container for what the person intends to do, or whether a plain SRL, a PFA or an individual enterprise would serve better. The consultancy describes itself as a single point of contact from that first conversation through to the handover of the documents, and the eligibility question is the first thing that single point of contact has to get right. Readers who want the wider picture of how the firm handles company registrations and subsequent filings will find the service structure set out on the company’s English-language site; the Romanian section also carries a blog covering legislative topics for 2026, from share capital rules to electronic invoicing.
What has to be settled before the file is drafted
The conditions attached to the debutant form come from legislation that has been amended more than once, which is why a fixed checklist published on a web page ages badly and why anything an applicant reads online is a poor substitute for a check made case by case. What the firm does publish is the sequence of its work — discussion, documentation, filing, handover. In broad terms, the points that have to be clarified before documentation is prepared for a debutant file cover:
- the founder’s own history as an associate or administrator in other Romanian companies, since the debutant regime is designed around people at their first venture rather than around experienced shareholders adding another entity to a portfolio
- the activity the business intends to carry out, expressed in the CAEN codes that will appear in the constitutive documents, and whether those codes sit inside what the debutant regime allows
- the ownership and management structure the founder has in mind, and whether it is compatible with the form
- the registered address the company will declare, together with the documents that prove the right to use it
- the obligations that follow registration and that the founder will have to keep observing for the status to remain intact
Only after those points are settled does the file itself take shape. That ordering — verification first, drafting second — is what separates a debutant file that goes through cleanly from one that gets sent back.
The share capital question, and where 2026 changes things
One element that comes up in every conversation about a new SRL, debutant or otherwise, is the share capital. The firm states on its website that the minimum share capital for an SRL is 500 lei starting on 1 January 2026, with a threshold of 5,000 lei applying where turnover exceeds 400,000 lei. For a founder building a first business, that is not an abstract legal detail — it determines the amount that has to be deposited before the file is complete, and it is one of the figures that is better clarified during the preparation stage than discovered at the bank counter.
The registered office is the other recurring obstacle
The second point where debutant files stall has nothing to do with the founder’s eligibility and everything to do with an address. A company registered in Romania needs a declared registered office, supported by documents the Trade Register will accept. Founders who do not own a suitable space, or who live in an apartment block where the owners’ association or the neighbours would have to consent, frequently discover this requirement only once the rest of the file is ready.
ADISAF addresses that gap with a registered office hosting service at an address in Bucharest. According to information published by the firm, the arrangement comes with the contract and the supporting documents required by the Trade Register, which removes the need for proof of ownership or for consent from neighbours and the owners’ association. The hosting contract is normally concluded for periods of one to three years, with the option of extension. The details of that arrangement, along with the company documents that accompany it, are described on the page dedicated to registered office services and company documents.
Where the administrative work stops and the legal work begins
One structural point is repeated across the company’s website, and it is relevant to anyone comparing providers. ADISAF presents itself as handling the administrative side and the operational coordination of a file, while the legal documentation is drafted, approved and assumed by a collaborating law office registered with the Bucharest Bar, in line with Law no. 51/1995. The site also carries an explicit statement that the firm is not a government institution and does not represent the Trade Register or any other public authority.
For a first-time founder, that distinction is worth understanding. It clarifies who signs what, and it explains why the constitutive act of a debutant company is not something an administrative consultant drafts on their own account.
How the work is delivered
The firm describes its delivery model as fully online, available anywhere in the country, through telephone, e-mail and WhatsApp, with an optional visit to the Bucharest office for those who prefer to meet in person. The registered address is Calea Floreasca no. 169, floor 6, room 12, Sector 1, Bucharest, and the published working hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00, Romanian time. The company is identified on its site by tax code 34620422 and Trade Register number J2015006869405, and its slogan has been registered as a trademark with OSIM since 2015.
Prices are not displayed. The published model is a personalised estimate following a request for a quote, which is consistent with an approach where the scope of the file is only clear after the eligibility conversation has taken place. A separate English-language section serves non-resident founders and investors who want to set up or manage a Romanian company remotely, with the firm stating that enquiries receive a reply within the same working day.
The founder behind the company is named on the site as Florin Mihalcea, with Antonia Mihalcea and Florin Mihalcea listed as part of the team, and the homepage refers to more than 30 years of entrepreneurial experience standing behind the practice. For someone weighing the debutant route against an ordinary SRL, the practical takeaway is narrower than any marketing claim: the eligibility question is worth answering before the documents are written, not after the file has been lodged.
