BVI Companies

Order Form
Please refer to the appropriate Jordans information sheet when completing this form.

Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS or type.

Incorporation details

1. Company Name

Please provide three choices of company name, in order of preference:

A
B
C

2. Director Services

Jordans are able to provide offshore director services. Please tick below to subscribe to our director services (an annual fee is
payable for this service). If you wish to appoint your own directors please ignore this section and proceed to section 3.

Offshore based director

Please provide full details of your reasons for requiring the director service below:

Please note that consent to act as a director of your company is not automatic and the companies providing this service reserve
the right to decline to act. Provision of this service is subject to a full set of instructions for our consideration. Additional due
diligence will also be required for this service.

3. Directors

Proposed Director 1

Title
Forename(s)
Surname
Former name (if any) 1
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Address for the service of
documents
Usual residential address
(including postcode) 2
Date of birth
Occupation

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 Employers name and address
(please include telephone and
email address)
Are you regulated or belong to Yes No
a Professional body?
If YES, please provide the name Documentation enclosed:
of the regulating authority or
professional body and a
certified copy of the relevant
updated documentation
1
Not required where the former name was changed by deed poll or other legal means or disused for more than 10 years. Where a person is or was formerly known
by more than one name, each name much be stated.
2
Not required where that address is the same as the individual’s address for the service of documents.

Proposed Director 2

Title
Forename(s)
Surname
Former name (if any) 1
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Address for the service of
documents
Usual residential address
(including postcode) 2
Date of birth
Occupation
Employers name and address
(please include telephone and
email address)
Are you regulated or belong to Yes No
a Professional body?
If YES, please provide the name Documentation enclosed:
of the regulating authority or
professional body and a
certified copy of the relevant
updated documentation
1
Not required where the former name was changed by deed poll or other legal means or disused for more than 10 years. Where a person is or was formerly known
by more than one name, each name much be stated.
2
Not required where that address is the same as the individual’s address for the service of documents.

If there are any more directors please provide the information we need on a separate (photocopied) sheet and tick here:

4. Registered office and agent

Your company will be incorporated with our BVI address as its registered office and Jordans Trust Company (BVI) Limited as its
registered agent. An annual fee is payable for this service.

5. Company Secretarial service

Jordans provides a company secretarial service to deal with the essential organisational aspects of the company, appointment
of our secretarial company as company secretary, maintenance of statutory registers and collection and payment of the annual
licence fee. An additional fee is payable for this service – see our price list for details.

Tick here to subscribe to Jordans’ company secretarial service.

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6. Authorised shares/number of shares

Your company will be incorporated with authority to issue up to 50,000 shares with a par value of US$1-00.

If you require a different share capital please specify below:

Authority to issue Shares with Par value

7. Nominee Shareholders

Nominee shareholders are available to preserve confidentiality. Jordans will provide nominee shareholders based in the Carib-
bean to hold the shares on behalf of the beneficial owners listed in section 9. An annual fee is payable for this service. If you wish
to nominate your own shareholders please ignore this section and proceed to section 8.

Please tick here to subscribe to our nominee shareholder service and proceed to section 9

8. Shareholders

Please specify below the requested information of each shareholder and the number of shares they will be holding.

A
Full Name
Aliases and/or former names
Gender Male Female
Naionality (if more than one is held,
give all nationalities)
Date and place of birth
Occupation / Title / Position of
Public Office Held
Employer’s name and address
(please include telephone & e-mail
address)
Principal residential address
(including postcode)

Number of shares

B
Full Name
Aliases and/or former names
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Date and place of birth
Occupation / Title / Position of
Public Office Held
Employer’s name and address
(please include telephone & e-mail
address)
Principal residential address
(including postcode)

Number of shares

If there are more than two shareholders please provide the information we need on a separate sheet and tick here:

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9. Beneficial owners

If the shareholders listed in section 8 are also the beneficial owners of the company, please tick here and proceed to section 10.

Otherwise please specify below the name and residential address of each beneficial owner of the company and number of
shares held:

A
Full Name
Aliases and/or former names
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Date and place of birth
Occupation / Title / Position of
Public Office Held
Employer’s name and address
(please include telephone & e-mail
address)
Principal residential address
(including postcode)

Number of shares

B
Full Name
Aliases and/or former names
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Date and place of birth
Occupation / Title / Position of
Public Office Held
Employer’s name and address
(please include telephone & e-mail
address)
Principal residential address
(including postcode)

Number of shares

If there are more than two beneficial owners please provide the information we need on a separate sheet and tick here:

10. Location of registers of members and directors

A BVI business company must keep at the office of its registered agent a register of members and a register of directors or a
copy of them. The register of directors must also be filed with the Registry, but is not publicly available. Where a company keeps
a copy of the registers at the office of its registered agent, it shall: (i) within 15 days of any change in either register, notify the
registered agent in writing of the change; and (ii) provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address
where the original registers are kept.

We will prepare the registers upon incorporation. Unless you subscribe to the company secretarial services in the Optional
Services below, you will, unless otherwise agreed, be responsible for providing us with updated registers whenever changes are
made to them.
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If we are only to hold copies of the register of members and register of directors, please specify the location below and notify us
of any change to their location.

Address

Postcode

11. Location of minutes and resolutions, and financial records

A BVI business company must keep minutes and resolutions of its members and directors, it must also keep records and related
underlying documentation that is sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions; and will, at any time, enable the
financial position of the company to be determined with reasonable accuracy.

We will assume that you will hold the minutes, resolutions and financial records. Please specify the location of the originals below
and notify us within 14 days of any change to their location.

Address

Postcode

Please also provide the name of the person who maintains and controls the financial records and underlying documentation.
Please notify us within 14 days of any change of this person.

Other Services

We also offer the following relevant services (please see our price list for fees). Please tick to subscribe:

12. Company seal

It is a statutory requirement in the BVI for each company to have a company seal. Please tick here if you would like Jordans to
produce a hand plier seal for the company.

13. Accounting services

A BVI company is required to keep such accounts as the directors consider necessary or desirable to reflect the financial position
of the company. Any accounts that are prepared are not filed in a public register.

Please note that where we provide director services we require the appointment of a suitably qualified accountant.

14. Bank account services

Jordans can assist in the opening of a bank account for the company. Where we provide director services we expect that the
bank account will be operated by our signatory panel.

15. First board minutes

Where we are not providing a secretarial service we can prepare the first board minutes and share certificates ready for
execution. See price list.

16. Standard terms and conditions

This incorporation service is provided on Jordans’ standard terms and conditions of business, copies of which are available on
request and on our website: www.jordanstrustcompany.com

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17. Invoicing policy

It is our practice to issue our invoice for the formation and for the first year of any annual services to the person named in
Section 19.

For subsequent years it is our policy to contract with the company and to invoice the company for the annual service fee.

If you want the contract and invoice for ongoing services to be issued to the person named in Section 19 please tick here:

If you want the contract and invoices for subsequent years to be issued to a different party please specify name and address
here:

18. Data protection

For more information on our data protection policy see below. You may ‘opt-out’ of receiving promotional mailings or ‘opt-in’ to
promotional emails by selecting the appropriate boxes below:

If you do not wish to receive mail from our UK office, tick here:

If you do not wish to receive mail from our overseas offices, tick here:

If you do wish to receive emails from our UK office, tick here:

If you do wish to receive email from our overseas offices, tick here:

19. Instructing party

Your name:
Your organisation (contract and
invoice will be issued in this name
unless you specify
otherwise):
Type of organisation:

Brief description of business

activities:

Address:

Town/Country/Postal Code:
Telephone:
Email:
Website information:

Are you regulated or belong to a Professional Body? Yes No

If yes, please provide the name and address of the Regulating Authority or Professional Body on the next page, along with a
certified copy of your licence/certificate:

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 Name of Regulating Authority/Body:

Address:

If not, please supply us with full due diligence on the Instructing Party as noted in the Due Diligence Section of this Form.

Full Due Diligence documents are now being provided

Full Due Diligence documents were already supplied

Relationship With End User Client:

Has the client taken professional tax/other advice? Yes Copy Enclosed No
(please provide a copy if available)

Your Jordans account number

(if applicable):

I confirm that the fiscal consequences of establishing an offshore company have been considered and that appropriate advice
has been taken in this regard. I instruct Jordans to form a company as indicated above.

Signature: Date

To order please return to us:

this completed form;

• your payment (see separate payment information); and

• all due diligence documentation specified on the attached KYC information sheet.

Please ensure that full information is provided with your order as failure to supply any documentation required will delay the
incorporation of your company.

Customer satisfaction and quality assurance

Our aim is to ensure continuing customer satisfaction by offering a fast, friendly and professional service. We strive to provide
comprehensive, high quality and cost effective solutions to our clients’ needs, backed by helpful and efficient support services.

Jordans’ accreditation under BS EN ISO 9002:1992 confirms our commitment of quality systems putting customers first and
aiming to exceed their expectations.

Our data protection policy

Your details are held for Jordans Limited, Jordans Trust Company Limited, Jordans (Scotland) Limited – trading as Oswalds – and
Jordan Publishing Limited’s use only (which include our offices in major offshore locations).

Apart from any use made in connection with our acting on your behalf – including credit control reasons – we would only use
your details to send you occasional materials on our products, services and events that we think may be of interest to you. None
of your details will be passed to third parties for any marketing purpose.

For further information on how your data may be used, please contact our Data Protection Officer:
Tel: +44 117 918 1431 email dataprotection@jordans.co.uk

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Due diligence Requirements

The BVI has anti-money laundering legislation in place which requires us to collect due diligence before we are able to release
the company documentation to you after incorporation or to deal with the company’s statutory affairs (including applying for
the opening of a bank account).

IMPORTANT
Failure to supply the following information will delay the incorporation of your
company.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE IMPORTANT NOTES OVERLEAF.

Proposed company name:

Your reference:

Due diligence

1. The following information must be provided in relation to each beneficial owner, shareholder, director, officer
(including the holder of a Power-of-Attorney) and instructing party of the proposed Company (altogether referred to as ‘relevant
party’).

Please note that the instructing party is required to provide us with full due diligence unless it is regulated by a Financial Services
Commission or Financial Services Agency or equivalent, or is a legal practitioner or accountant who belongs to a
professional body whose rules incorporate provisions consistent with the FATF recommendations, provided that it is supervised
by its professional body for compliance with those rules.

A. If the relevant party is an individual please provide the following (tick if enclosed):

(i) 1 certified copy document evidencing identity (see note A on page 12). This document must contain a photograph
which must be certified as a true likeness of the individual; AND

(ii) 1 separate document evidencing residential address, separate to the evidence taken for name
(see note B on page 12)

B. If the relevant person is a Private Corporation or Partnership (body corporate) (tick if enclosed):

(i) A certified copy of the certificate of incorporation (and any certificate of incorporation on change of name),
and memorandum and articles of association/partnership agreement or equivalent governing document of the
body corporate; AND

(ii) Evidence of the registered office address / trading address of the body corporate, and mailing address if different;
AND

(iii) Signed Director’s Statement setting out the nature of the Company’s business

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(v) In relation to each director, and each individual who owns 10% or more of the Corporation (in terms of the partnership,
each individual who is entitled to more than 10% share of the capital, profits or voting rights), the information listed
in A (i) - (ii) above

C. If the relevant person is a Trust please provide the following: (tick if enclosed):

(i) Information on the type of Trust, date and country of establishment, evidence of its formation and existence
(please supply a copy of the trust instrument); AND

(ii) Name and address confirmation of the Trustee: AND

(iii) Evidence to verity the identity of the Trustee(s), Settler and Protector of the Trust [see A (i) & (ii)]

D. If the relevant person is a Public Corporate Entity listed on the London Stock Exchange or any other recognised stock ex-
change: (tick if enclosed):

(i) Copy of the Constitutional documents

(ii) Copy of latest annual report:

(iii) Current listing of Directors, authorized signatories and sample signatures

(iv) Listing details

E. If the relevant person is a Foundation please provide the following (tick if enclosed):

a) a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the foundation or a print outfrom the appropriate registry showing that the
foundation exists;

b) a copy of the charter and regulations of the foundation or equivalent governing documents;

c) the name and address of the registered office; where there is an agent acting for the foundation, the name and
address of the agent;

d) Evidence of identification of the names of any person appointed as a council member, founder, guardian or protector
of the foundation; (the verification of identity is noted in section A above)

e) Identification of the names of any beneficiary (the verification of identity is noted in section A above)

Due diligence required on the company and its activities:

2. Commercial activities

Please answer ALL of these questions:

The company’s principal business activity or trade will be (please provide a clear description of the proposed activity/trade):

The company will hold the following major assets (please state if none):

The company will trade/carry on business in the following locations (please note that ‘worldwide’ or ‘global’ is not specific
enough):

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The source of the funding for the shares in the company and/or the assets held by the company is (please give full description of
where the funds originated; we reserve the right to request supporting documentation):

Turnover: Profit:

I confirm that the information given above is correct, that any turnover or profit projections are reasonable and that the assets
to be introduced or incorporated into the company are from lawful sources.

Signature: Date:

Name:

If due diligence information provided does not satisfy the requirements stipulated by BVI Regulations, we reserve the right to
request additional information prior to us commencing business relations.

Important notes – please read carefully

Certifying documents

Any copy documents supplied must be certified, preferably in English, as being a true copy of the original. Where the
document contains a photograph, the photograph must be certified as a true likeness of the individual.

An acceptable certifier is one who is independent of the person whose documents are being certified; and is subject to
professional rules of conduct of statutorycompliance measures. Acceptable certifiers include an independent lawyer, accountant,
notary, bank manager or embassy official who should provide their name, address, status or capacity on or with the certified
document. The certifier should clearly sign and date the certificate/documents.

Certificates should appear on the copy document. If they appear on a separate document the copy document which is being
certified must be clearly identified. If certificates are not provided in English we reserve the right to require that an appropriate
notarised translation is provided.

Note A: Acceptable evidence of identity

The following are acceptable as evidence of identity. Certified copies (not originals) should be provided.

• Current signed passport (this is the preferred form of evidence). The copy should show the unique reference number, the is-
suing office, expiry date, full name, signature and photograph.

• Current provisional or full driving licence bearing photograph and signature.

• Government issued National Identity Card bearing photograph and signature.

• Self-Employed in the Construction Industry – tax exemption certificate with photograph of holder 9Forms C155, C156 or
CS4

• A certified copy of tax notification from a revenue authority

Note B: Acceptable evidence of residential address (separate to evidence of identity)

The following are acceptable as evidence of address. The original or a certified copy may be provided.

• Recent utility bill (not more than 3 months old and not a mobile phone bill) or local authority tax bill (this is the preferred
form of evidence).

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• Current provisional or full driving licence bearing photograph and signature (if not used for evidence of identity).

• Most recent bank or credit card statement

• Building society account or mortgage statement (not more than 3 months old).

• Local authority tax bill (for current year)

The individual must also provide his or her former name, other current name or aliases used, his or her gender, date of birth, oc-
cupation, employer’s name and address details.

Where an assessment is made that the individual or the service that is being provided presents a higher than normal level of risk
additional information would be requested as is considered necessary. This may, for example, consist of a bank or
professional reference.

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Additional information

If there are more than two directors, please provide the additional information below:

Title
Forename(s)
Surname
Former name (if any) 1
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Address for the service of
documents
Usual residential address
(including postcode) 2
Date of birth
Occupation
Employers name and address
(please include telephone and
email address)
Are you regulated or belong to Yes No
a Professional body?
If YES, please provide the name Documentation enclosed:
of the regulating authority or
professional body and a
certified copy of the relevant
updated documentation
1
Not required where the former name was changed by deed poll or other legal means or disused for more than 10 years. Where a person is or was formerly
known by more than one name, each name much be stated.
2
Not required where that address is the same as the individual’s address for the service of documents.

Please provide the information requested below for additional shareholders and/or beneficial owners

Full Name
Status Shareholder Beneficial Owners or Both
Aliases and/or former names
Gender Male Female
Nationality (if more than one is
held, give all nationalities)
Date and place of birth
Occupation / Title / Position of
Public Office Held
Employer’s name and address
(please include telephone & email
address)
Principal Residential Address
(including postcode)

Number of shares

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