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Risk and Continuity

Companies without a deputy

Companies represented by a single person alone, without power of attorney and without a second authorised signatory.

The occasion

If the only person authorised to represent a company becomes unavailable, operations come to a standstill. Nobody can authorise wages, conclude contracts or access accounts until the court has appointed a representative. In companies whose sole manager has already reached an advanced age, this risk is a practical concern.

Precautions can be taken with manageable effort: through powers of attorney, a registered procuration, an emergency plan or key person insurance.

Who works with this list

  • Key person insurers
  • Law firms for entrepreneurial powers of attorney and emergency planning
  • Relationship banks
  • Succession advisers

What each row contains

Company Legal form Street Postcode City Federal state Industry Register court Register number Incorporated Share capital Management Oldest member of management Year of birth Age Website Telephone Distance (km)

The report on this theme

Insolvency and liquidation of German companies. Where insolvencies cluster, which companies they affect at what age, and what role capital, legal form and the composition of management play.

Further themes in this field.

Companies in insolvency or dissolution Companies over whose assets insolvency proceedings have been opened or which are in dissolution, with the date of the proceedings. 113,933 companies Companies in liquidation Companies being wound up outside insolvency, with the persons responsible for the liquidation. 79,931 companies Addresses with a high density of companies Companies with a business address at which an unusually large number of other companies is registered. 61,374 companies