How to set up a company in The Bahamas - One IBC® Group

Preparation

• Our advisory team will advise you a sufficient type of legal entities in Bahamas which fits your business activity.
• Advisory team will check the company name for a new company. There are some regulations that the company won’t be registered if the name:
  • is identical with that under which an existing company is already incorporated under the former Act or any other Act concerned with the incorporation of companies or which so nearly resembles such other name as to be calculated to deceive or confuse except where the company in existence is in the course of being dissolved or signifies its consent in such manner as the Registrar approves.
  • contains, without express prior permission of the Registrar which permission may be withheld without assigning a reason, the words “Assurance”, “Bank”, “Building Society”, “Chamber of Commerce”, “Chartered”, “Cooperative”
  • is indecent, offensive or, in the opinion of the Registrar, is otherwise objectionable
• You will be informed about The The Bahamas’ obligation, taxation policy, financial year

Your The Bahamas company details:

• We need information of your company Director, Shareholder, along with the shares ratio.
• Choose recommended services for your The Bahamas company:
  • Bank account: You can achieve bank account in many banks in the world with The Bahamas entity. You can choose most of the bank options in the list (except UAE, Switzerland, Hong Kong).
  • Nominee services: Using the Nominee services so the information of Nominee will be shown on Company Registration’s website.
  • Serviced office: Choose your favorite jurisdiction for Service address. You can have many Service address all over the world.
  • Intellectual Property & Trademark service: You can register Intellectual Property in all of the jurisdictions with The Bahamas entity.
  • Merchant account: this service will be fulfilled after the corporate bank account is activated.
  • Bookkeeping: the service may or may not be used in the future upon your request.
• Processing time: You can select 2 time frames depending on the urgency of your request. For normal cases, a company can be formed in about 9 working days, while urgent cases can be processed and completed in 5 working days. The process duration counts after the receipt of full payment and all required documents.

Payment for Your Favorite The Bahamas Company

We accept payment with various payment methods, namely:

• Credit/Debit card (Visa/ Master/ Amex).
• Paypal: you can make a payment using your PayPal account.
• Bank Transfer: You can make an international wire transfer to our bank accounts. A list of various banks is available for your most convenience. It is possible to transfer through IBAN/SEPA if you are living in the Europe. Otherwise, SWIFT will also work, taking from 3 to 5 days.

Send the company kit to your address

• Your company original documents will be sent to your provided address via mail (DHL/ TNT/ FedEX). Bank account opening, Serviced office, license or Trademark application can be subsequently fulfilled at this time.
• It may take 2 to 5 working days to deliver the company kit after your company is incorporated.
• Upon the issuance of the Certificate of Incorporation, your company is ready to do business worldwide!