We help you incorporate a Limited Liability Company in Anguilla

No. The articles of formation are signed by an authorised person on your instruction, and the LLC agreement is signed by the members wherever they are. Nothing in the formation of an Anguilla LLC has to happen on the island, and holding a meeting or keeping the books there later is allowed without turning the LLC into a local business. The original papers reach you by courier at any address in the world.

Everything the LLC needs to exist and to run for its first year. Basic, at US$1,249, carries the government formation fee and the first annual fee, name checks and reservation, the articles of formation, a standard LLC agreement, the registered agent and office for year one, the register of members and managers, the beneficial ownership filing, your digital Certificate of Formation and courier delivery of the kit. Premium, at US$2,399, adds the seal, the original formation papers, incumbency and good standing confirmations, and authentication of one full set.

Yes, within limits we are open about. Every package includes help opening a multi-currency business account with Airwallex, subject to that provider's own checks. For a conventional bank, our team advises on which institutions consider an Anguilla LLC with your profile and activities, prepares the LLC's papers so the application arrives complete, and stays with it until an answer comes. Whether an account is opened is the bank's decision, and we say so before anyone applies.

Very little. An Anguilla LLC carries twelve ongoing duties, from the government fee on the anniversary to the annual return and the economic substance return by the end of that quarter, plus the agent, the office and the registers. Eleven of them sit inside your annual engagement with us, from US$1,099 a year with the government fee inside. Your part is to keep the LLC's accounting records and to answer when we ask for the confirmations behind the annual return.

Both. Moving an existing LLC to us is a change of registered agent, made by a notice the incoming agent endorses. The LLC keeps its name, its number, its anniversary and its agreement, and nothing about the entity changes. The transfer costs US$350, then US$1,099 a year from the next renewal. If the members want to bring the LLC to an end instead, we advise on the right route, prepare the articles of dissolution or the winding up papers, and manage the process with the authorities on your behalf.

No. Anguilla law requires every LLC to have a registered agent and office on the island from the day it is formed, and the articles and every later filing go in through that agent, so there is no form the members can send in themselves. What we add is the part around that rule: advice on fit, an agreement drafted to your deal, management of the formation on your behalf, and a team that stays afterwards. We are an independent corporate services provider, not a government body.

No. Expanship is a privately owned company. We are not a government agency, department, registry or regulator, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the Government of Anguilla, the Anguilla Financial Services Commission, or the Anguilla Commercial Registry. We advise you, prepare and coordinate your paperwork, and handle the incorporation on your behalf. Whether a company is approved, and when, is decided by those authorities alone.

Our own work: advice on the right structure, due diligence on every member, preparing and coordinating the incorporation paperwork, handling the incorporation on your behalf, and the first year of registered agent and registered office. The government fees are set by the Anguilla authorities, not by us, and are passed on at cost inside the package price.

One member, of any nationality and resident anywhere, with no maximum. The member may be an individual, a company, a partnership or a trust. No manager is needed: unless the LLC agreement says otherwise, the members run the LLC themselves, each with a say in proportion to their profit share and more than half deciding. Where managers are appointed they need not be members and may live anywhere. Members and managers are named in the articles of formation and in a register kept at the registered office.

Yes. Anguilla law lets a company, a partnership or a trust hold an interest in an LLC, and lets a company serve as its manager, so a holding vehicle or a family trust can sit above an Anguilla LLC. The look-through still applies: the individuals who ultimately own or control the LLC are traced through every entity in the chain until a person is reached, and filed within fourteen days of formation. For the corporate body itself we ask for its formation papers, registers and a recent extract.

In the LLC agreement, almost entirely. There are no shares, no minimum contribution and nothing to pay in before the LLC exists. A member may contribute cash, property, services already performed or a written promise to contribute later, in any currency, at a value the members agree and the LLC records. Profit, loss and distributions then follow whatever the agreement says, and the agreement may create classes of member with different rights. Only where it is silent does Anguilla law fall back on the agreed value of each member's contributions.

Neither. Anguilla law asks an LLC for no secretary and no officers of any kind, and it needs no premises or staff of its own. What it must have at all times is a registered agent and a registered office on the island, where the register of members and managers is kept. In practice the office is the agent's own address, and both come with every package, so you lease nothing. Meetings may be held anywhere, and the accounting records may be kept wherever you choose.

They sit under two different laws and are built differently. The IBC has shares, a director and a shareholder, and its yearly fee is set by how many shares it may issue. The LLC has members holding interests, no shares and no board, a flat yearly fee, and an agreement that decides how profit is split. Both pay no Anguilla tax on income earned abroad, and both need a registered agent and office on the island. The LLC also confines a member's creditor to a charge on the interest.