We help you incorporate a Limited Liability Company in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

No. The articles of formation are signed by the registered agent on your instruction, and the LLC agreement is signed by the members wherever they are. Nothing is executed in Kingstown at any stage, and no member or manager has to live in the country. Once the LLC exists, meetings may be held anywhere or replaced by written consent, and the records may be kept in any form and any country. The kit reaches you by courier.

Everything the LLC needs to exist and to run for its first year. Basic at US$1,049 carries the government fee including the first annual fee, the name checks, the articles of formation and a standard LLC agreement, the registered agent and office for year one, the records of members, managers and beneficial owners, a digital Certificate of Formation and courier delivery of the kit. Premium at US$1,999 adds the seal, the paper original and the attested set. The fee is flat, so contributions do not move it.

Yes. Every package includes support in opening a multi-currency business account with Airwallex, subject to the provider's own checks. For a traditional bank, our team advises on which banks are used to a St Vincent LLC doing your kind of business, prepares the corporate papers the bank asks for, and helps the members answer the questions a bank puts to a vehicle owned from abroad. The decision on the account rests with the bank, and we say so before you apply.

Very little. Eleven duties follow a St Vincent LLC and only one carries a date: the annual government fee, due by 31 December whatever month the LLC was formed in. There is no tax return, no accounts filing and no substance return for an LLC that keeps its business outside the country. Our annual engagement from year two, US$949 a year, carries ten of the eleven, including the agent, the office and the records. Your part is the accounting records, and an answer when we ask.

Both. Moving an LLC you already own to us means changing its registered agent by a notice to the authorities, a one-time US$350, after which the annual engagement runs at US$949 a year. The LLC keeps its name, its number, its agreement and its history. When an LLC has done its job and holds no property and owes nothing, articles of dissolution bring it to an end. We prepare the members' consents, settle the fees and manage the steps on your behalf under a separate quote.

No. St Vincent law requires every LLC to have a registered agent in the country, and the articles of formation are signed by that agent and lodged through it, so there is no form the members can send in themselves. What we add saves time and mistakes: advice on whether an LLC or a Business Company fits your plan, an agreement drafted to your deal, management of the process on your behalf, and a team that stays on 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 Vincent and the Grenadines or the Financial Services Authority (SVG). 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 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 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 a person, a company, a partnership or a trust. No manager is required at all: unless the LLC agreement says otherwise, the members run the LLC themselves, each voting by their share of the profits with more than half carrying a decision. Where managers are appointed they need not be members and may live anywhere. Neither members nor managers are named in the articles of formation.

Yes. St Vincent law lets a company, a partnership or a trust hold an interest in an LLC, and lets a company serve as its manager, which is how a parent or a family trust sits above a St Vincent LLC. Behind any corporate member, the people who ultimately own or control the LLC are still identified to the registered agent before the articles are signed, traced through each layer until a person is reached. No percentage line is drawn: the test is ownership or control.

By the LLC agreement, in almost any way the members like. There are no shares and no minimum contribution, and a member may even be admitted without contributing. Each member puts in cash, property, services or a promise of them, at a value the members agree and enter in the LLC's records. Profit, loss and distributions then follow the agreement, which may create classes of member and separate votes from profit. Only where it is silent does St Vincent law fall back on the agreed value of contributions.

Neither. St Vincent law asks an LLC for no secretary and no officers of any kind, and the members may run it themselves without a board. The registered office named in the articles is the registered agent's own address, and it comes with the agent in every package, so the LLC rents nothing and employs no one in the country. Meetings may be held anywhere or replaced by written consent, and the accounting records may be kept in any form and any country.

Three ways. The LLC has members holding interests under an agreement rather than shareholders holding shares under articles and by-laws, so profit is split as the members write rather than by shareholding. The LLC is outside the local tax system by statute and has one dated duty a year, where the Business Company takes a tax number and files a return, accounts and any substance return on four dates. In return the LLC may not deal with residents, while the Business Company has been free to since 2019.