El Salvador is a country with a legal system focused on ensuring stability to a national or foreign investor where the legal rules are respected in a free enterprise system, with transparent laws and international agreements signed by the Government in accordance with the International Law.
Any foreign natural or legal person can perform acts of Commerce in El Salvador. In the first case, obtaining its certificate of incorporation in the registry of Commerce , which requires the establishment of the legal, the decision to set domicile in El Salvador, the appointment of a legal representative with sufficient power, the capital according to what established by Law , an opening balance , certified by a public accountant of the country.
A society whether a partnership or a corporation is constituted by public deed before a Salvadorian notary, through the will of two or more natural or legal persons national or foreign that stipulate goods or industries with the goal of distributing among them benefits arising out of the business that they will do.
Once concerted the will of the grantors and met the requirements of the Salvadorian Code of Commerce, it is necessary to appear before a Salvadorian Notary to grant the articles of incorporation of the society to be registered later in the Registry of Commerce.
The powers to appoint legal representatives in El Salvador, for administrative, judicial, family or of any other nature, should be given before a Notary of El Salvador, inside or outside of the territory, or before a Consul of El Salvador duly accredited. They must be legalized before the competent authorities or by an Apostille, in the countries subscribers of that international treaty. Normally the Salvadoran lawyers send Ad Hoc format, with clauses