Offshore glossary
Our compact glossary on offshore company formation terms can be of help.
The glossary containes 250 words and their definitions used in offshore business industry.
You can easily find the most frequent business formation terms marked with * (asteric) in the glossary.
The words' list will be updated as the new terms come into use.
- Administrative Office
- Annual Fees
- Annuitant
- Annuity
- Apostille
- Articles of Association
- Asset protection
- ATM
- Accrual Method of Accounting*
- Acquisition*
- Administrative dissolution*
- Adoption *
- Advisory board of directors*
- Affiliate*
- Agent*
- Aggregate Par Value*
- Amended certificate of authority*
- Amendment*
- Amortization*
- Annual Meeting of Shareholders*
- Annual Meeting of Directors*
- Annual report*
- Annual Return*
- Application for certificate of authority*
- Articles of Incorporation*
- Articles of Organization*
- Asset*
- Assumed Name*
- Authorized Shares*
- Bank Secrecy
- Bearer Share Certificate
- Beneficial owner
- Bye-Laws
- Bearer instrument*
- Blue Sky Laws*
- Board of directors*
- Bond*
- Book Value*
- Business Judgment Rule*
- Business corporation act*
- Business Name*
- Bylaws*
- Certificate of Incorporation
- Certificate of Good Standing
- Certificate of Incumbency
- Companies Act
- Corporate Redomiciliation
- Custodian
- Captive (Re)insurance Company
- Certificate of Formation
- Certificate of Incumbency
- Common Law
- Company limited by guarantee
- Company limited by shares
- Credit Card
- Capital Gain*
- Capitalization*
- Capital Loss*
- Cash Method of Accounting*
- Capital Stock*
- C Corporation*
- Certificate of Authority*
- Certificate of good standing*
- Certificate of Incorporation*
- Charter*
- Close Corporation*
- Common Shareholders*
- Common Shares*
- Consolidation*
- Constituent*
- Convertible security*
- Copyright*
- Corporate indicator*
- Corporate kit*
- Corporate Name*
- Corporate Records*
- Corporation*
- Corporation law*
- Cumulative Dividends*
- Cumulative Voting*
- Dividend
- Domicile
- Domiciliary
- Dormant Company
- Double Taxation Agreement
- Draft
- Due Diligence
- Debit Card
- Debenture*
- Debt financing*
- De Facto Corporation*
- De Jure Corporation*
- Derivative suit*
- Directors*
- Dissolution*
- Distribution*
- Dividend*
- Doing Business As*
- Domestic Corporation*
- Double Taxation*
- Exempt Company
- Earnings Per Share*
- Equity*
- Equity Financing*
- Free Zones
- Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
- Financial Stability Forum
- Fictitious Name*
- Fiduciary*
- Fiduciary relationship*
- Fiscal Year*
- Federal Tax Identification Number*
- Foreign Corporation*
- Fractional share*
- Franchise Tax*
- GmbH
- Going private*
- Going public*
- Guarantee*
- Hedge Funds
- Holding Company
- Hostile takeover*
- International Business Corporation
- Incorporation*
- Incorporators*
- Indemnification*
- Interest*
- Investment Bankers*
- Involuntary dissolution*
- Internal Revenue Service*
- Issued Shares*
- Joint Venture
- Judicial dissolution*
- Jurisdiction*
- Limited Liability Company
- Limited liability partnership
- Legal Entity
- Leverage*
- Leveraged Buy-Out*
- Limited personal liability*
- Memorandum of Association
- Minutes
- Money Laundering
- Mutual Fund
- Majority*
- Management*
- Managers*
- Member*
- Merger*
- Minute Book*
- Nominee Company
- Non-Resident Company
- Name registration*
- Name Reservation*
- Net Worth*
- No par value shares*
- Not-For-Profit Corporation*
- Numbered Corporation*
- Offshore
- Offshore Centers
- Offshore Finance Company
- Offshore Fund
- Offshore Holding Company
- Offshore Trading Company
- Onshore
- Ordinary Shares
- Offshore Financial Center
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Officers*
- Operating Agreement*
- Organizational Meeting*
- Partnerships
- Permanent Establishment
- Power of Attorney
- Private Foundation
- Paid-in capital*
- Paid-in Capital Requirements*
- Parent Corporation*
- Partnership*
- Par Value*
- Pass-through Taxation*
- Patent*
- Perpetual existence*
- Piercing the Corporate Veil*
- Preemptive Rights*
- Preferred Shares*
- Price-Earnings Ratio*
- Private Corporation*
- Promoters*
- Professional Corporation*
- Proxy*
- Registered Agent
- Registered Office
- Registered Share
- Registrar
- Resident Company
- Royalty
- Record date*
- Redeemable shares*
- Reinstatement*
- Resolution*
- Retained Earnings*
- Revised Model Business Corporation Act*
- Settlor
- Shelf Company
- Societe Anonyme
- Subsidiary Company
- Suffix
- Settlor
- S Corporation*
- Scrip*
- Seal*
- Securities*
- Securities laws*
- Share*
- Share exchange*
- Shareholder*
- Special meeting*
- Sole Proprietorship*
- Stated Capital*
- Stock*
- Stock Certificate*
- Stockholder*
- Stock Transfer Book*
- Subscribers*
- Subscription*
- Subsidiary*
- Surplus*
- Tax Haven
- Trust
- Trust Deed
- Trust Protector
- Trustee
- The Statute of Elizabeth
- Takeover*
- Target Company*
- Tax-exempt organization*
- Trademark*
- Treasury Stock*
- Withholding Tax
- Watered Stock*
- Winding Up*
- Withdrawal*
- Qualification*
- Quorum*
- Ultra Vires*
- Unanimous Written Consent*
- Underwriter*
- Voluntary dissolution*
- Voting Right*