Munich-based legaltech beglaubigt.de is acquiring the commercial register platform registercheck.de. In the future, the data will be made available to banks, law firms, and AI assistants, among others, via APIs, expanding beglaubigt.de from a digital company incorporation platform into a provider of ongoing corporate and registry processes.
The crucial part of the deal therefore only begins after the actual company formation. While a company is only founded once, managing directors, shareholder structures, representation authorities, or registered offices change throughout its entire lifecycle—and it is precisely these changes that beglaubigt.de plans to automatically capture and pass along in the future.
To this end, the Munich-based company is acquiring registercheck.de, a commercial register research platform. Its database consists of around five million company records and 28 million register documents. registercheck.de will continue to be run as an independent brand under its existing domain. For existing customers, prices, contracts, and existing API access will initially remain unchanged.
Register Data to Report Corporate Changes to AI Assistants
beglaubigt.de is already working on handling company formations directly via AI assistants. According to the company, formations can be initiated from within ChatGPT since August 2026. The technical foundation consists of an incorporation API and an MCP server.
Founders can describe their venture directly in the chat. The assistant collects the required information and uses it to generate the incorporation documents. Notarization still takes place before a notary, and registration with the competent register court.
With the acquisition of registercheck.de, this model is intended to extend beyond company formation. For example, an AI assistant could take register information into account during incorporation, import existing shareholder data, or react to changes involving business partners after registration.
This shifts the approach from a single digital process toward an infrastructure designed to make corporate data accessible throughout a company’s entire lifecycle.
Banks could automatically monitor ownership chains
Such data is particularly relevant for banks and other companies required to comply with regulatory verification requirements. For companies with multi-tiered ownership structures, looking at a single commercial register entry is often not enough. A decisive factor, among others, is determining which natural persons ultimately exercise ownership or control.
registercheck.de is intended to enable beglaubigt.de to technically map such ownership chains across multiple corporate tiers. According to the company, a monitoring API will also detect changes to relevant register information and report them on the very same day.
This can become relevant, for example, during recurring know-your-customer and anti-money laundering checks. Instead of repeatedly requesting documentation from clients, changes in register data could be automatically integrated into existing verification processes.
EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation to increase data requirements from July 2027
The regulatory background makes such systems even more relevant. The new EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation will generally apply starting July 10, 2027. Among other things, it standardizes requirements for identifying beneficial owners and explicitly takes multi-tiered ownership and control structures into account.
Under the regulation, legal entities in the EU must hold adequate, accurate, and up-to-date information regarding their beneficial owners. Any changes to this information must be updated and reported to the central register without delay and within 28 calendar days at the latest.
As a result, the timeliness of structured corporate and ownership data is likely to become even more critical for companies, as well as for banks, law firms, and other obliged entities.
Second acquisition by beglaubigt.de within a single quarter
registercheck.de is already the Munich legaltech company’s second acquisition within just a few months. In June 2026, beglaubigt.de acquired firma.de, a provider of digital business formation services in Germany.
According to beglaubigt.de, firma.de was technically and operationally integrated within two months. The company reports that around one in twenty corporations in Germany is now incorporated via beglaubigt.de and firma.de.
beglaubigt.de financed both the takeover of firma.de and the acquisition of registercheck.de from its own funds. No additional financing round was raised for this purpose. The company has not disclosed the purchase price of registercheck.de.
“A company is founded once, but corporate data changes continuously. Our goal is for banks, law firms, and AI assistants to see these changes automatically and react to them directly,”
says Alexander Sporenberg, founder and CEO of beglaubigt.de.
From Incorporation Platform to Legaltech Infrastructure
Strategically, beglaubigt.de connects different stages of a company’s life cycle through the two acquisitions. firma.de strengthens access to company incorporation, while registercheck.de provides data from the commercial register for ongoing business operations.
In parallel, the EU is also pursuing the goal of further digitalizing the incorporation and administration of companies. In March 2026, the Europäische Kommission presented its proposal for “EU Inc.” The optional European corporate regime is intended to enable companies to incorporate and manage their operations largely digitally, while especially simplifying cross-border processes.
beglaubigt.de’s approach, by contrast, operates within the existing German legal framework. Notarial and court procedures remain in place, while software and interfaces are designed to automate data collection, document generation, and further registry processes.
