Required documents and data for Gibraltar company formation
- KYC documents of each shareholder/beneficial owner and director, plus recent Selfie (in a white background).
- KYC documents of residential address of each director and shareholder, dated within the last 3 months (must be in English or certified translation version).
- CV (Resume) of each shareholder/beneficial owner and director.
- Source of funds evidence (bank statement showing sufficient funds being available) for each each shareholder/beneficial owner and director.
- Source of Wealth evidence for beneficial owner. If your main source of wealth is from employment, documentary of such employment, which could be: Copy of an employment contract, Recent Payslips, Bank statement showing receipt of funds (corresponding to the payslips provided).
- The proposed 3 company names.*
- Provide with the planned company structure (who will be the Directors and Shareholders, UBO’s, how much shares in % they will hold).
N.B.
- If Shareholders and/or Directors are legal persons, it is required to submit a full set of apostilled company documents. If a company is operating more than 1 year it is required to submit a certificate of Good Standing.
- If documents are not in English language or language of particular country, then they must be accompanied by a notarized translation.
*Company name:
- Language: Any
- Letters: From Roman alphabet
- Company name must end with: Limited Liability or LLP
- Restricted Names: Empire, Crown, Imperial, Windsor, Royal, Assurance, Bank, Building Society British, National, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Gibraltar, England, English, Scotland, Scottish, Wales, Welsh, Ireland or Irish – (if the words are used as a suffix, they are normally allowed)
- Names Requiring Consent or a License: assurance, bank, benevolent, building society, Chamber of Commerce, fund management, insurance, investment fund, loans, municipal, reinsurance, savings, trust, trustees, university
- "European" - will not be approved if they imply unjustifiable connection with EU. "International" - as prefix major activity must be overseas trading, as suffix, company activity must be in 2 or more overseas countries or any other words deemed sensitive or offensive.
- Restricted connections for company name: name of state, national or local government.
- Any name that implies illegal activity or implies royal or government patronage is restricted.
- Registrar may reject any name which it considers undesirable or contrary to the public interest.
- Company name is restricted to be identical or similar that of an existing company.
- In case when foreign language is used for company name the translation in English may be asked by Registrar to ensure conformity to above listed restrictions.