Thailand's Department of Business Development (DBD) is
gradually migrating its services to the digital environment.
Last year saw the introduction of electronic filing of the
annual financial statements of private limited companies as
discussed
here. More recently, the DBD introduced
electronic registration of partnerships and private limited
companies ("E-Registration") under a new regulation
effective 18 April 2017 with the aim to simplify the
registration process. E-Registration is also available for
purposes of filing amendments to the constitutive documents of
existing partnerships and private limited companies.
Until now, the documents required to register partnerships and
private limited companies had to be physically submitted to the DBD
office in the jurisdiction of the proposed entity's registered
office. While the DBD had already introduced an online system
covering the pre-approval of partnership and private limited
company registrations, the actual
