Cayman Exempted Company (Standard)
Tier-1 reputable offshore wrapper for crypto treasury, funds, foundation companies, and SPV structures, filed through Trident Trust (one of the largest independent corporate-services providers globally). The legal vehicle is the same Cayman Exempted Company that institutional investors recognize globally.
What's included
- Cayman Islands Registrar of Companies registration fee: we file and pay it on your behalf
- Memorandum and Articles of Association (Exempted Company)
- First Subscriber and Director Resolutions
- Beneficial Owner Register (Cayman BO Register-compliant)
- Economic Substance assessment and initial filing
- First-year licensed Cayman registered-office service through an established mid-market provider
- Sanctions screen + Tier 2 KYC (enhanced due diligence)
What's NOT included
- Apostille (sold separately at $149)
- Year-2+ registered-office + government fee renewal (~$2,499/yr)
- Annual Economic Substance reporting beyond the initial assessment (sold separately)
- Cayman audit (most Exempted Companies don't require one; if you do, referral to a Cayman audit firm)
- Bank account opening (Cayman banking is 60-120 days)
- Foundation Company or Segregated Portfolio Company structures (separate SKUs; ask)
- Magic-Circle registered-office (separate SKU: Cayman Exempted Company (Magic-Circle))
- Mail forwarding
We list what's not included on every product page so there are no checkout surprises.
Timeline & terms
- Formation
- 10 business days
- KYC tier
- Tier 2
Operator-grade use case
Cayman Exempted Company is the canonical legal wrapper for institutional crypto treasuries, offshore funds, SPVs, and any structure where you need a clean offshore vehicle that US institutional investors will accept without grimacing. Tier-1 reputable, EU-compliant, established 80+ years of case law. The Standard SKU files through a credible mid-market Cayman corporate-services provider. The legal vehicle is identical to the Magic-Circle SKU.
Most common deployments: foundation companies for DAO treasury management, master-feeder fund structures (Cayman master + Delaware feeder), crypto-treasury holding vehicles for tokenized projects, and SPVs for cross-border financing where the investor base is comfortable with mid-market provenance.
Less ideal for: institutional rounds where LPs or prime brokers specifically expect a Magic-Circle filing-agent name on the registered-office letterhead. For those, use the Magic-Circle SKU. Also less ideal for solo founders (cost and substance requirements are heavy), pure holding structures (Seychelles or BVI is one-third the cost), or US-person operators without sophisticated tax counsel.
What you'll need to hand us
- Email address
- Country of residence
- Intended use statement (free-text)
- Government-issued photo ID (passport or national ID)
- Proof of address (utility bill, bank statement, or government letter, dated within 90 days)
- Source-of-funds attestation (drop-down + free text)
- Optional: PEP and adverse-media screening consent
- Everything in Tier 1
- Beneficial owner declaration for every party with 25%+ ownership
- Source-of-wealth documentation (tax return, employment letter, salary, asset proof)
- Manual enhanced-due-diligence reviewer notes from our KYC partner