How to Check if a Company Is Registered in Congo-Brazzaville

Before you pay a supplier, sign with a partner, or invest in a Congolese business, there is one check worth two minutes of your time: confirming the company is actually registered. A real company in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) is recorded in the RCCM — the Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier — and you can verify it for free, by name or by RCCM number. This guide shows you how, what a genuine record looks like, and how to spot a business that isn't what it claims to be.

Who keeps Congo's company register?

Congo-Brazzaville's official company registrar is the RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier). The Republic of the Congo is a member of OHADA — the regional body that harmonises business law across 17 Francophone African states — so its company law and its register follow OHADA's Uniform Acts. National RCCM data is filed locally and federated into the OHADA Fichier Régional du RCCM, maintained by the CCJA (Common Court of Justice and Arbitration). The main registry offices are in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, and every company's name, legal form, and registration are matters of public record.

How to search the Congo company register

1. Get the company's exact registered name or its RCCM number (the certificate, contract, or invoice usually shows one).
2. Search it on Fylings — type the name in the box and we check the RCCM register, so you're not limited to a stale cache.
3. Open the matching result to see the registered name, legal form, and the source and date the record was checked.
4. No match under that exact name? Try a shorter form of the name, and remember French spelling and accents matter. Still nothing — that's a red flag worth pausing on.

What a Congo company record shows

The RCCM record confirms a company exists, what legal form it takes, and when it registered — rather than dumping its full file. On Fylings, a Congo-Brazzaville record shows:

• The registered (legal) name — the exact name on the RCCM
• The RCCM number — the company's unique registration identifier
• The legal form — e.g. SA, SARL, SAS, SNC, GIE, or Entreprise Individuelle
• The registration date — when the company was entered on the register
• The source and date — every record is attributed to the RCCM via the OHADA register, with the date it was checked

Reading a Congo legal form

Because Congo-Brazzaville follows OHADA law, the legal form on a record tells you what kind of entity you're dealing with at a glance:

• SA — Société Anonyme, a public limited company (larger businesses, banks, insurers)
• SARL — Société à Responsabilité Limitée, the most common limited-liability company
• SAS — Société par Actions Simplifiée, a flexible simplified joint-stock company
• SNC — Société en Nom Collectif, a general partnership with unlimited liability
• GIE — Groupement d'Intérêt Économique, an economic interest grouping
• Entreprise Individuelle — a sole trader, with no separate legal personality

How to spot a company that isn't registered

Most problems aren't elaborate forgeries — they're businesses that simply never registered, or that use a name close to a real one. Watch for:

• No match on the RCCM under the exact name they gave you — the single biggest signal.
• An RCCM number that doesn't resolve to the name on the document.
• A name that is suspiciously similar to a well-known company (e.g. an extra word or initial), or confusion with a DRC entity.
• Pressure to pay before you've had a chance to verify anything.

Checking directors and ownership in Congo

The RCCM confirms existence, legal form, and registration date, and OHADA filings can include the managers (gérants) and directors who legally represent a company. For a deeper view, Fylings indexes Congo-Brazzaville's published company data, so many Congolese company profiles carry the RCCM number, legal form, and registration date — useful for due diligence on who actually stands behind a business. For an official certified extract, you can request one or verify programmatically via the API.