Nominee Shareholder Service

Why have and what is a Nominee Shareholder?

The provision of nominee shareholder services in connection with the formation of a UK or offshore company is invariably required by clients seeking legitimate confidentiality of ownership.

A nominee is normally a company created for the purpose of holding shares and other securities on behalf of investors. With our service the the nominee is not the legal owner of the shares, and the underlying investors have the beneficial interest in the shares: i.e. they are entitled to all income and capital gains on them.

Upon taking on the duties of Nominee Shareholder, we would hold your shares on trust in the form of a Nominee Shareholders Agreement. Our Nominee Shareholders Agreement would serve the purpose of ensuring that your identity as Beneficial Owner(s) is only known to us and not put on public record at the Company's Registry.

An original Share Transfer form signed by us, but undated, will be issued to you, so that you can have the security of being able to transfer the shares at any time.

A nominee holding occurs where a third party holds shares on your behalf. This can be purely an administrative matter to aid the management of shareholdings.

Some of the reasons for requiring confidentiality are described above in relation to our nominee director services.

For an annual fee, we can provide a corporate nominee in whose name the shares of any given company will be registered.

UK Company Nominees Ltd will then draw up a Declaration of Trust in favour of the beneficial owner, which provides that our nominee will vote the shares in accordance with the nominee’s instructions and will assign all profits payable on the shares e.g. dividend income, to the beneficial owner. UK Company Nominees Ltd will act as nominee shareholder for your company.

UK Company Nominees Ltd are professionals who hold the shares registered in our name for the benefit of another.

Declarations of Trust and beneficial ownership signed and sealed by us will be supplied.

The provision of nominee shareholder services in connection with the formation of UK companies is invariably required by clients seeking legitimate confidentiality of ownership. 

We can provide a corporate nominee in whose name the shares of any given company will be registered, we will then draw up a Declaration of Trust in favour of the beneficial owner, which provides that we will vote the shares in accordance with the nominee’s instructions; and will assign all profits payable on the shares (e.g. dividend income) to the beneficial owner.