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Jersey Company Incorporations

Jersey Company Incorporations for institutional clients

Mourant is pleased to introduce its one-stop-shop for Jersey company incorporations and administration. This seamless solution for our institutional clients is designed to make the formation and ongoing administration of Jersey companies as streamlined as possible.

As clients’ needs vary, Mourant is able to tailor a range of incorporation and administration packages designed to cater to your specific needs. By combining legal and administration services we are able to successfully accommodate all of your corporate requirements.

Jersey Company Incorporations - Why use an offshore company?

The reasons for using offshore companies are many and varied, and will vary from client to client. The most common benefits include:

  • Utilising a tax neutral environment.
  • Greater flexibility in terms of the structures available.
  • Efficient and commercially viable legislation in terms of incorporation and administration.
  • Access to sophisticated international financial centres.

Jersey Company Incorporations - Why use a Jersey company?

With recent changes to Jersey’s companies law, Jersey is now able to offer a corporate vehicle that is as flexible if not more flexible, than most other jurisdictions, while at the same time offering Jersey’s traditional advantages of a stable and well regulated jurisdiction. The benefits of a Jersey company include:

  • Wide choice of available structures - including private or public, par value or no par value, limited, unlimited, guarantee or a mixture of these, traditional company or cell company.
  • Flexibility of capital - ease of getting money in and out of companies.
  • Public company benefits - no minimum capital requirements, no statutory pre-emption rights.
  • Supportive legislation - ensuring quicker turnaround times.
  • Same day Jersey company incorporations - the Jersey Companies Registry is able to incorporate companies on a same day basis

Jersey Company Incorporations - Further details on Jersey companies are available at: 

Guide to Jersey Companies Law
Companies Jersey Law 1991, differences between public and private companies
New opportunities for Jersey companies

Jersey Company Incorporations - Benefits that Jersey offers:

  • Reputation - Jersey enjoys an excellent reputation as a well-regulated offshore jurisdiction. This fact was underlined in the March 2008 ’City of London Third Global Financial Centres index’, which ranked Jersey as one of the leading financial offshore jurisdictions.
  • Expertise - Jersey has been recognised as an offshore financial centre for almost 50 years and as such, is able to offer a full service and dedicated financial services offering.
  • Infrastructure - Jersey has a strong infrastructure with full business support services. The Island is not generally subject to power outages, severe weather or other conditions that could impact on service delivery.
  • Geography - Conveniently located to service the major European financial centres and within the same time zone as London.
  • Economic stability - The Island commands an enviable economic strength with no public debt and has a substantial strategic reserve. The Island benefits from, and contributes to, the free movement of capital throughout the European Union and beyond.
  • Political stability - Jersey is politically stable and has enjoyed 800 years of government and judicial independence.

Jersey Company Incorporations - Why Mourant?

As one of the world’s leading providers of offshore legal and administration services to institutional clients, we can offer a number of advantages to clients:

  • One-stop-shop - as a provider of both legal and administration services, we are able to form the companies and also provide the necessary administration services. We are also able to provide expert legal and administration support should the company be involved in any transactions.
  • Legal services - Consistently rated by the leading legal directories as a top tier legal adviser in Jersey. For further details on the services provided by our award-winning law firm, please click here .
  • Administration services - leading provider of financial administration services with $250 billion of assets under administration. If you would like to find out more about how Mourant can provide Jersey Company Incorporations, please click here .

    Additionally, for further details on our administration services (including funds and structured finance SPVs) and professional accolades, please click here
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Jersey Company Incorporations - Fees:
Incorporation fee : The basic cost for the incorporation of a company by Mourant starts at £750 and rises to £1,000 should the application be a fast track request.

Administration fee: The starting cost for the provision of registered office services to an institutional client in Jersey with Mourant is £775 per annum, rising to £1,625 per annum for the provision of registered office and company secretary.

Jersey Company Incorporations - Next steps

If you would like to commence the incorporation of a Jersey company using the services of Mourant, please contact us using one of the options below and we will provide you with the appropriate documentation and guide you through this process.

Please note that our ability to incorporate or administer a Jersey company will depend upon satisfactory completion of our company formation application form, along with the provision of associated due diligence requirements.

For more information about Jersey Company Incorporations, please contact;

James Hill
T: +44 (0) 1534 609145
E:
James.hill@mourant.com 

Simon Gould
T: +44 (0) 1534 609367
E:
simon.gould@mourant.com

Tim Herbert
T: +44 (0) 1534 609338
E: tim.herbert@mourant.com