We help you incorporate a Limited Liability Company in Nevis

No. A Nevis LLC is formed without any member, manager or organiser setting foot on the island. Identity checks run on copies you send us, the Articles of Organisation are signed by an organiser who need not be a member, and the operating agreement is settled with you by email and calls. The record pack then travels to you by courier, wherever you are.

Both packages carry the government fee for the first year, the registered agent and registered office on Nevis for year one, the Articles of Organisation, a drafted operating agreement, the Registers of Members and Managers, the beneficial ownership record, membership interest papers, your electronic Certificate of Formation and help opening an Airwallex account. Basic is US$1,149. Premium, at US$2,099, adds the seal, the original formation paper, incumbency and good standing confirmations, and authentication of the papers for use abroad.

Yes, within limits we are open about. Every package includes help with opening a multi-currency Airwallex business account, subject to Airwallex's own verification. For a conventional bank we advise on which institutions consider a Nevis LLC with your profile and activities, and prepare the company's papers so the application arrives complete. The decision rests with the bank, and no provider can promise an account.

Fewer than most vehicles carry. A Nevis LLC has twelve duties in all, but only two have a date: the flat renewal fee on the anniversary of formation and the simplified tax return by 15 April. There is no annual return, no accounts filing, no audit and no substance test. Eleven of the twelve sit inside the annual engagement, from US$999 a year with the government renewal fee inside. Your part is your own bookkeeping and a reply when we ask.

Both. Moving an existing LLC to us is a change of registered agent: the company keeps its name, number and history, the operating agreement stands, and nothing about the entity changes. The transfer costs US$350, then US$999 a year from the next renewal. If the members want to bring the company to an end instead, we prepare the dissolution papers, settle what is owed to the authorities in Nevis on your behalf and manage the process through to the close.

No. Nevis law requires every LLC to have a registered agent on the island from the day it is formed, and the Articles of Organisation reach the authorities through that agent, so there is no direct route for the members. What we add is the part around the filing: advice on whether an LLC fits your plan, drafting of the articles and the operating agreement, 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Nevis Financial Services Regulatory Commission, or the Registrar of Companies. 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 Nevis authorities, not by us, and are passed on at cost inside the package price.

One member is enough, with no upper limit, and no manager is needed at all. By default the members run the company, and they may appoint one or more managers if they prefer. Members and managers may be of any nationality and live anywhere in the world. Nothing in Nevis law asks for a local member, a local manager, a board or a slate of officers. The organiser who signs the Articles of Organisation does not have to be a member either.

Yes. A member of a Nevis LLC may be a person or a company, and the same is true of a manager, who may also be a member. A trust holds its membership interest through its trustee. Where a corporate member sits in the chain, Nevis asks for the beneficial owners behind it, traced through every entity until a natural person is reached. That record is held by the registered agent on Nevis and is not public.

In the operating agreement, and almost nowhere else. No capital is needed at formation, and no interest has to be issued before the company starts. A contribution may be cash, property, services already performed or a written promise to contribute later, in any currency. Profits and losses are shared as the agreement says, which need not follow what each member paid in. When an interest is assigned, the capital account behind it moves with it. Where the agreement is silent, Nevis law supplies the default.

Neither. Nevis law asks for no company secretary and no officers, and a Nevis LLC has no need for its own premises or staff. What it must have at all times is a registered agent and a registered office on Nevis, not on St Kitts. In practice the office is the agent's address, and both come with every package, so you lease nothing. The company's records may be kept anywhere in the world as long as they stay readily accessible to the agent.

A charging order is what Nevis law gives a judgment creditor of a member personally. It attaches to that member's interest and reaches only the distributions due to that member. The creditor does not become a member, does not take part in management, and cannot reach the company's assets or force a distribution. The company itself is not charged and carries on. The protection reads alongside the registers and the operating agreement, so both need to be kept straight.