Registered Agent and a Registered Office Service in the BVI

BVI Registered Office Address and Registered Agent Service

The registered office is the place where writs, summonses, notices, orders and other official documents can be served upon the company. All BVI Business Companies must have a Registered Agent and a Registered Office in the BVI. In order to remain in good standing in the BVI, the company must maintain a registered agent/office in the BVI. This may be any person (also an existing director) or company appointed by the directors of a BVI. More often the Registered Agent is a fully staffed, equipped, qualified and regulated firm, which provides those services to a considerable amount of clients and their offshore companies. Coddan CPM Ltd - is such a licensed Registered Agent in the British Virgin Islands.

An IBC must have a Registered Office and a Registered Agent in the British Virgin Islands and a copy of its Shareholders Register has to be kept at the Registered Office but is not open to public inspection.

The Registered Agent is located in the Registered Address of the company in the BVI, his name and address should be filed with the Registrar of Companies. This information is publicly available. The Registered Agent must keep at the Registered Office the Register of Members, Register of Directors and all Minutes and Resolutions of the Company. If the resolutions about the changes are not carried out by, or in the presence of the Registered Agent, they should be submitted to the Registered Agent for due filing and registration. These files remain confidential and do not appear on the public record, but certainly they are available for inspection by Company shareholders.

In case the company does not wish to open a fully operational office in the BVI, then our office can act as the official registered office of the company in the BVI. Our firm usually acts as the registered office of the company. After the above information is provided, our firm undertakes to immediately complete the required documents and submit them with the Memorandum and Articles of Association to the Registrar of Companies. The Memorandum of Association includes the name of the company, the objectives of the company and the number, value of the shares issued. The Article of Association includes the internal rules of the company.

If you do not have a suitable address, or if you would prefer not to use your own address, we can provide you with a Registered Office. We can offer you a choice of locations including Tortola (BVI), London, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin and a Prestigious Registered Office within the City of London.

The Registered Office Service includes:

• Allowing you to use our BVI office as your company’s registered office
• Holding your company’s statutory registers
• Displaying your company’s name in our reception area
• Forwarding statutory mail, unopened
• Making your company’s statutory registers available for inspection, in accordance with current law

Any document requiring authentication or attestation by the BVI company may be signed by a director, a secretary or by an authorised officer or agent of the company. The Registered Agent may verify the signature of any director authenticating or attesting any document on behalf of the company. The company will be bound by any document so verified by the Registered Agent.

The Registered Office should, as a minimum, retain for every the BVI company a copy of its Certificate of Incorporation, a copy of the Memorandum of Association, any amendments thereto, an imprint of the common seal and the original or copy of the Register of Members and Directors.

Even if a company determines to maintain its corporate records outside the BVI, it must deliver a copy of the Register of Members and Directors and any subsequent changes to the Registered Office. Please ensure this is done either direct to the Registered Office or through Coddan.

According to the new BVI Business Companies Act 2004, Registered Agent is required for all companies in the British Virgin Islands, regardless of their type and sphere of business operations. The requirement equally refers to onshore and offshore companies.

If you do not have a suitable address, or if you would prefer not to use your own address, we can provide you with a Registered Office. Our payment to provide a registered office in the BVI from £175.00.

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Please contact us for more information. If you have any queries, please call us during business hours and speak to one of our highly trained incorporation specialists. You can call us by phone 800-081-1510 or + 44 (0) 207.935.5171, or make an initial consultation request.