Nowadays, companies are very important economic entities in every country. There are different legal forms of a company and each has its own specific characteristics that make it a separate and independent business entity. Through this paper, the phenomenon of founding companies at a distance, ie online, is problematized. A company is a business entity that has the status of a legal entity and which independently performs the activities of production, sales and provision of services on the market. In legal theory, discussions on defining the concept of commercial law are not over. Commercial law is a set of legal norms that regulate the legal status of economic entities, as well as their relationship with the state, but also mutual legal affairs related to trade in goods and money. In the Republic of Croatia, definitions of commercial law have become particularly relevant in recent years, when a large number of legal acts were adopted in the process of transition, globalization and communication with EU law.