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Contacts: Fidelity Corporate Services Ltd. Suite 2, Portland House Glacis Road, Gibraltar Tel: + 350 42400 Fax: + 350 79600 Web: www.offshoregibraltar.com Email: fidelity@gibnet.gi 
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Offshore company setting up documentsThe set of corporate documents for a Gibraltar non-resident company will always include the standard logical sequence of documentation: original Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum of Association, Articles of Association, First Minutes (dealing with all appointments and allocations), copy of the Declaration of Compliance, share certificates. If we have been ordered to integrate a third-party directorship or shareholder service into the Company, additional documentation may include management contracts, share transfer forms or trust declarations, powers of attorney, additional corporate resolutions and other documentation as the case may be.All offshore jurisdictions require that all international business companies (non-resident companies, offshore companies, etc.) have an address in that country. This is called the registered address. In order to incorporate an offshore company, most offshore jurisdictions also require maintaining a registered agent within their territory. In Gibraltar, this position is called Resident Secretary. Usually, the registered agent is located in the registered address of the offshore company. As to the authentication of offshore incorporation documents, in most cases your offshore company documents will probably need to be certified. Documents issued in one country would usually be acceptable only within that one country only. A document can be certified by a Notary or by a government officer - for example, by the Registrar of Companies - but this is still a purely local certification. To make a document legally acceptable abroad, most countries in the world have agreed on a uniform system of 2nd tier certification of public documents. This is the so-called Apostille legalisation, or The Hague Convention 1961 process. If you intend to open a foreign bank or securities account for your offshore company, to purchase a real estate in the name of your offshore company, to register a branch or a joint venture with your offshore company, or to enter into any similar deal where you would have to show the company documents to a third party outside Gibraltar - you will most probably be asked that the documents be properly certified by Apostille. More information on offshore company setting up documents. Go to Top     
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