Our Commitment to our Clients
To our clients, we make a commitment to deliver the quality, expert knowledge and integrity that you need for the long-term success of your goals. We will make your strategic objectives our own and help you along the path to success.
Our Promise to our Employees
Our promise to our people is one of investing in their path of becoming the best versions of themselves and in mastering their professional knowledge and aptitude. We will use both academic and professional education and personal and technical coaching to assist them in achieving their goals.
Our Impact in our Community
Everything we do leaves a mark, no matter how large or small, it all accumulates and determines our impact. This is why we hold dear the values of respect and integrity and we uphold the spirit of the law, not only the letter. We are grateful to the communities in which we operate and make a conscious effort to contribute to the quality of life of its people.
A broad range of services
FORMATION & ADMINISTRATION SERVICES
Our team of experienced corporate services professionals provide responsive and director led tailored solutions, from entity formation to corporate administration, based on our clients’ needs and the industry in which they operate.
We work with clients from every industry and sector, from Banking and Financial Services to Energy, from Insurance and Reinsurance to Transportation and Logistics as we well Technology, Innovation and eGaming. Consistent with our priorities of providing operational excellence, AGS has an expert for wherever your business operates, that will guide you through the nuances of making your corporate secretarial service more than just a regulated service provider.
FIDUCIARY SERVICES
We oversee corporate governance processes including the provision of independent director, partner and trustee services as well as conflict advisory, ensuring industry best practice and, where necessary, compliance with economic substance requirements. Our experts facilitate our clients’ international growth strategies and provide the knowledge to do it in a cost effective manner, with flexibility and speed.
To maintain operational excellence, we strive to provide accountability to both our clients and our company. Therefore, our directors and managers are internally assessed to ensure their experience and skill is appropriate for the proposed role and their commitments are monitored centrally to ensure ongoing availability to our clients.
WEALTH STRUCTURING & FAMILY OFFICE SERVICES
Certain circumstances require various services from providers and managers that range from corporate to trusts and estate services, or access to a variety of financial services experts. AGS is all about helping you achieve asset security and financial independence for you and your successors. AGS values quality and integrity and is committed to discreetly delivering to you the expertise and knowledge that you need, while keeping the privacy that the future of your financial security deserves.
Our team of experts will advise you on the best structure capable of meeting your specific goals and will assist you in putting all the pieces together. We set up and manage trusts, funds and both single or multi-family offices that help keep secure the rewards of your operating business, investments, real estate assets, private recreation vehicles and intellectual property interests.
FUND SERVICES
We provide administration, investor relations and financial reporting services for closed ended structures in all our locations. We focus on those funds investing in established asset classes, with a small number of sophisticated private client, institutional and sovereign wealth investors.
In each of our key fund jurisdictions, AGS in collaboration with market-leading legal specialists from our affiliated law firm Appleby, provides fund clients with an integrated and responsive fund services and legal solution for all their fund needs.
REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE SERVICES
Our qualified and experienced compliance and regulatory professionals will assist you with fulfilling reporting requirements for Automatic Exchange Of Information (AEOI) such as FATCA and CRS, Economic Substance reporting, as well as compliance reviews for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations internationally.
ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL REPORTING SERVICES
Our financial reporting and accounting services is backed by a team of professionally qualified experts with multi-jurisdictional experience who collectively provide high quality services. We add value with knowledge and scalable management reporting systems solutions.
Our core services include accounting and book keeping, financial reporting (IFRS and GAAP), management information, assistance with external audit and treasury management.
LISTING SERVICES
We understand that our clients may seek to list their structures to widen the investor base and provide liquidity; we are well placed to support these activities as we have a pre-existing understanding of their structures through the financial reporting, administrative and legal services we provide to them.
We focus on the heavy lifting of preparing and submitting documents, as well as serving as a channel of communication with regulators, providing you with the time required to build and maintain your investor base. Additionally, we provide PRTA services for Bermuda and Cayman companies holding a Hong Kong listing.
DATA SECURITY
The security of our clients’ data is our number one priority and we continue to make strategic investments in order to do everything we can to protect their data. As part of this commitment AGS has achieved ISO 27001 certification which is a specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS), a framework of policies and procedures that includes all legal, physical and technical controls involved in an organisation’s information risk management processes. The ISO certification is recognition that our policies and procedures meet the international standard for information security, and we are committed to ensuring we remain compliant with this industry standard.
LOCATIONS
WHERE WE OPERATE
We have offices in seven highly regarded, well-regulated global locations that enable us to deliver a globally integrated range of services. Our office locations include the key international jurisdictions of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Mauritius, and the Seychelles, as well as the international financial centres of Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Each of these regulated offices enjoy the support of a central leadership team that encompasses expert knowledge in operations and change management, risk and regulation, as well as strategy and corporate governance. The leadership team guides a globally integrated team of specialists to the clear AGS Mission of service excellence, quality and integrity.
Our global presence and vision provides a comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional service offering that is most beneficial to our clients and partners around the globe.