The question has been asked by many of our clients which want to incorporate their business in Cyprus but don’t have the experience yet of such an advanced and powerful step.
To explain it I will start to say that it is in any way mandatory to have a nominee shareholder or director for your Cyprus company formation.
A nominee shareholder:
This is a person which is a Cypriot and which is acting as shareholder on behalf of the beneficial owner of the company and which can be any person as long as he is a resident of Cyprus. (for this purpose)
A nominee director:
It is almost the same as a nominee shareholder, the different lays in that the director will have a power to act on behalf of the Cyprus Company and can finalize business deals on behalf of you without prior notice.
When we go and register Cyprus companies and our client’s business is of nature of where they are not willing to release their own identity (this can be for many reasons) but rather will have the entity operating as a anonymous vehicle to operate their day to day business, then we advice to use the instruments of a nominee shareholder and director, this will absolutely give them the best protection of identity and beneficial owner release.
Now that said, we get many questions each days for people wanting to register a Cyprus Company and which want to stay anonymously how they can be sure that the nominees don’t withdraw moneys from their accounts and how the beneficial owner can act on behalf of the company!
First of all, a beneficial owner of a Cyprus Company will become a Power of Attorney ( POA ) which will last for a period and which can be renewed upon request at any time. With the POA the beneficial owner can act on behalf of the company as would it not exists, bank accounts can be opened, business contracts can be signed and all the daily tasks can be fulfillment and be legit.
It is an obvious question to ask if the Nominees will run with your moneys and even think about it, first of all the nominees we use are all employed by our company or business partners, they only act as the term says Nominees, they won’t have access to clients bank accounts, basically to the reason that they will never see the account number, the pin codes or have the password for the Internet Banking facilities which comes with the opening of a Cyprus bank Account.
Except that, then a nominee shareholder and director will have a agreement with the trustee that will responsible for the company which disallow them to act on behalf of the clients company without written accept by the client. In fact they even not have the power to do so.
For more information on Cyprus Company Formation, please visit our website.
Please also visit our Merchant Services Offshore Discussion forum to get answers to any questions you might have and to see what others are doing.
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