Corporate secretarial in the Bahamas

Corporate secretarial work keeps a Bahamas company’s paperwork in order after the formation is done: registers of directors and members, minutes of meetings, resolutions and the filings that follow any change. For an IBC much of this runs through the licensed provider, because the Registrar General’s Department describes its online system as the place where licensed providers file forms and submit compliance documents. In practice your secretary and your registered agent are often the same firm.

Ask what a yearly secretarial package covers: board minutes, share transfers, changes of director, certified copies for banks. Find out how quickly the firm turns round a resolution and how you notify it of a new shareholder or controller. If your structure includes a trust, a foundation or a private trust company, look for a profile that names those entity types.

Seven firms on Accountanty offer corporate secretarial services in the Bahamas: four corporate services providers, two law firms and one accounting firm, four of them part of large networks. Five focus on clients from abroad, and trusts, foundations and private trust companies are the entity types they name most. All are based in Nassau; see the Bahamas guide for how the registered agent fits into the set-up.