Any businessman and any organization prefer cooperation only with reliable and respectable partners. However, the information indicated in the latest documents is often not enough to make sure the future interaction is seamless and safe. Why it will be important to carry out additional verification of contractors for arbitration. How to do this, what services you can use, we will describe further.
Checking the fact of registration
Trusting your material resources, as well as entering into any kind of cooperation, is only reasonable with an officially existing partner. Therefore, before checking the counterparty for arbitration, you must verify the fact of its state registration. In particular, it is necessary to confirm income tax expenses, VAT deductions.
Verification can be done in two ways:
- Make a request for its constituent and registration documentation. This is a charter, certificate of registration with the Federal Tax Service, confirmation of state registration. However, an unscrupulous counterparty may also send fake documents.
- It is much more efficient to contact the tax office at the place of registration of the partner and request an extract from the USRLE upon its registration.
Arbitration Court Portal
Checking the counterparty for arbitration is carried out on the official portal "Electronic Justice" ("Card file of arbitration cases"). Currently, it contains information on more than 21.7 million cases. This electronic database contains information about all litigations considered or under consideration, including bankrupt, administrative and civil ones.
Any user can use the data from the file cabinet: the information is in the public domain, its use is free, and the request does not require registration on the site. What is noteworthy, working with the portal is convenient not only from a computer, but also from a tablet, smartphone.
Note that similar services are provided free of charge and for a fee by third-party services. However, the basis for their investigations will be the archive of this official judicial electronic portal.
In the "File cabinet of arbitration cases" you can check any partner for a question of legal, financial and image risks from cooperation with him. How to do it - read on.
Checking the Counterparty for Arbitration: Algorithm
The instruction is as follows:
- Open the Arbitration File Cabinet portal in your device’s browser.
- Pay attention to the section on the left side of the screen - "Case Filter".
- In the top line, enter the information about the counterparty known to you - name, TIN, PSRN. This information will already be enough.
- If you wish, you can also specify the following data in the filter: name of the judge conducting the trial, name of the court, case number, approximate date of registration (time period is indicated).
- Now just click on "Find."
We draw your attention to the fact that checking counterparties for cases in arbitration will be more fruitful and effective if you specify the TIN or name of the organization in the filter. When you enter, for example, only the case number, you will receive information only about it, and not about all the lawsuits that were conducted with the participation of your partner.
Arbitration Test Results
By the way, in the “Card File ...” it is possible to check the arbitration and the counterparty, and himself by the TIN and other designated parameters. As a result, you will receive the following data:
- Whether bankruptcy proceedings have ever been launched against the company.
- Whether the partner was in the position of plaintiff or defendant in arbitration proceedings. What were the demands made on him or him.
- Litigation counterparties with your intended partner.
- Did the company have unfulfilled obligations, claims for which were brought in court.
We also note that all judicial acts in the file cabinet are available for download.
Useful Services
We offer you several useful services that can provide you with information no less valuable than checking a counterparty for arbitration:
- The official website of the Federal Tax Service. Here, by entering information about your partner, you can easily find out his place of registration and individual tax number online (it is much more convenient to check the counterparty for TIN arbitration).
- Lists of the portal of the Federal Bankruptcy Data Registry. Here you will find out if your partner is busted. Some businessmen find valuable information of this kind on the lists of the Kommersant newspaper.
- Website of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. On this portal you will find out whether your counterparty is among the identified unscrupulous suppliers.
Additional checks
How to check the arbitration of the counterparty, you now know. But it is also important to be aware of the following information in order to be completely confident in your partner:
- Information about the leader. This person must necessarily be endowed with the authority to enable him to interact with you and solve already common working issues. Pay attention to the duration of his duties. Request a copy of the identity document of the head, a number of powers of attorney in his name, order or protocol of the meeting of the founders of the company on his appointment.
- Request a company balance sheet. Of course, in some cases you are entitled to refuse. But, for example, PAOs are required to publish such information in the public domain.
Today, to check the counterparty for arbitration is a matter of several minutes. You need to know the key information about him - name, TIN, PSRN. This information is sufficient to obtain comprehensive information on the official portal "File cabinet of arbitration cases".