Trident Trust commenced the provision of corporate services in Anguilla in 2021 with the acquisition of Hauteville Trust (Anguilla) Limited, a local provider of corporate services since 1999.

Trident Trust Company (Anguilla) Limited is licensed to provide fiduciary and corporate services, and is regulated by the Anguilla Financial Services Commission. Our staff is supported by the Trident BVI office, a strong team with many years of experience in handling all aspects of corporate services requirements for local, regional and international clients.

Trident Trust has had a presence in Atlanta since 1984. Our 100-strong Atlanta team is divided between two operating businesses: one providing marketing and client liaison services to Latin American clients and the other providing fund administration services to U.S. based managers.

Trident Corporate Services Inc., is a marketing and client liaison office for the Group and is also home to the Group’s Latin American and Brazil client service teams. The teams assist Latin American focused intermediaries in both North and South America who use the Group’s services around the world. Trident Atlanta's international team speaks Afrikaans, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Trident Fund Services Inc., provides a full range of fund accounting and administration services, predominantly to Delaware funds and Cayman/Delaware master/feeder structures, but also to funds domiciled in other jurisdictions such as the Bahamas and the BVI.

Established in 1991, our Bahamas office is licensed to provide corporate services under the Financial & Corporate Service Providers Act 2000 and also holds an Unrestricted Investment Fund Administrator’s Licence and a Trust Licence. The office is regulated by the Central Bank of the Bahamas and the Securities Commission of the Bahamas.

The office is an active member of the financial services industry in the Bahamas and is one of the leading trust and corporate service providers in the jurisdiction.  Our experienced team provides a wide range of services to clients:

• Formation and administration of Bahamian trusts, including discretionary, non-discretionary and purpose trusts
• Formation and administration of Bahamian International Business Companies (IBCs), including Segregated Accounts Companies
• Directorship, nominee shareholder and secretarial services
• Establishment of foundations
• Establishment of Bahamas Executive Entities
• Formation, licensing and administration of investment funds, including standard funds, professional funds and SMART funds
• Financial statement preparation

Incorporated in 1994, our Barbados office is one of the longest-established providers of corporate administration services in the region, employing a team of 16 professionally qualified and experienced individuals. The office holds a corporate and trust service provider’s licence and is regulated by the Ministry of International Business in Barbados.

Barbados’ extensive international tax treaty network is a positive attraction for the many Latin American clients that make up a large part of our client base in Barbados. Our Barbados team focuses on the incorporation and administration of Barbados-registered entities, including accounting services and provision of director and shareholder services if required.  

Having worked with the Brazilian asset management, private banking and legal community for many years, the Group officially opened its first office in Brazil in mid-2023, to enhance our service offering for private and professional clients, and fund managers. Our team in São Paulo works closely with clients to assist in the implementation of global investment, asset protection, tax and inheritance planning solutions for high net worth individuals and families, as well as the establishment and ongoing administration of international fund structures for Brazil-based asset managers.

Our BVI office is one of the oldest and largest trust companies in the BVI, with more than 90 staff, and has incorporated and acts as registered agent for a significant proportion of the overall number of active companies on the BVI Register. The office holds a Class I trust licence from the BVI Financial Services Commission, as well as being a licensed fund administrator. It has a 20-strong team providing trust and managed company services.

Established in 1989, our office in the Cayman Islands has a long history of providing the highest level of service to an international range of fund, trust and corporate clients. The office is licensed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, holding both a Mutual Fund Administrator's license and a Trust license.

The Cayman Islands continues to be a leading financial centre for the pooling of investment capital and the structuring of international assets. 

Our specialist funds team supports investment managers both locally and globally, and has particular expertise in meeting the requirements of private equity and venture capital asset managers. In recent years, the team has evolved in response to the market, and now also sits at the forefront of the digital asset sector in the jurisdiction.

Our corporate, trust and regulatory teams apply detailed local knowledge to international scenarios, providing guidance and constructive solutions to our clients' challenges. 

The office is an active participant in the local industry and community, contributing to numerous industry associations and community interests. 

Our Houston fund services client liaison office provides a local point of contact for both our existing clients and the wider funds community in Texas, enabling access to our full range of fund accounting and administration services for US-based alternative investment managers. 

Located in the heart of the Brickell financial district, our Miami office acts as gateway to Trident Trust’s wide range of global services and specialises in assisting clients and professional intermediaries in nearly 20 countries in LatAm and the Caribbean. Our multi-lingual Miami team assists clients in establishing and administering structures in all jurisdictions in which the Group operates, providing a local point of contact and practical assistance through its detailed working knowledge of various types of entity worldwide. The office works closely with our Atlanta-based Latin American client liaison team, which has been serving professional and financial intermediaries in South Florida for more than 25 years.

Trident Trust has provided corporate and fiduciary services in Nevis since 1996, formerly through wholly-owned subsidiaries that included Morning Star Holdings Limited and Meridian Trust Company Limited, which now operate as Trident Trust Company (Nevis) Limited. Licensed and regulated by the Nevis Financial Services Department, we are the oldest and largest company formation agent in Nevis and also act as trustee of a significant number of Nevis trusts. Our staff of nearly 40 in Nevis has many years of experience in dealing with all aspects of formation, representation, trustee and fiduciary services, for a wide range of international clients.

Established in 2006, our Panama office is staffed by an experienced team of lawyers and accountants providing a wide range of corporate formation and administration services, as well as specialist legal services. 

Our Panama team assists clients with:

• The formation and ongoing administration of Panama companies and foundations, including providing company secretarial, accounting and managed company services.
• Residency procedures and applications for permanent and temporary residence.
• Registration of yachts and commercial vessels with the Panama shipping registry.
• Trademark registration and other procedures related to intellectual property.
• Applications for Panama’s range of sectoral incentives to invest in Panama.
• Buying and selling real estate in Panama.
• Guidance on the opening of bank accounts in Panama.

Ranked as one of the leading trust companies in South Dakota in the respected Chambers & Partners High Net Worth Guide, every year since 2016, our experienced, qualified team in Sioux Falls provides a wide range of fiduciary and corporate services to professional advisors and their high net worth clients, both international and U.S. based.

South Dakota is frequently ranked the number one trust jurisdiction in the United States. It is recognised for its modern trust laws, which include powerful privacy and asset protection provisions and the ability to establish dynastic trusts for multi-generational planning, as well as directed trusts where the trustee takes ‘directions’ from an advisor or committee in relation to trust fund investments and/or distributions. 

Our services include the administration of both directed and delegated trusts, as well as discretionary trusts.  The team also acts as the hub for our US corporate services, covering all US states. Three-quarters of the office’s staff have legal and/or accounting backgrounds, ensuring that complex client needs and structures are always in good hands. 

Our client relationship team in Montevideo support clients across Spanish-speaking Latin America, with a focus on the Southern Cone region, assisting corporate and private clients, family offices and financial institutions on global investments, asset protection, tax and wealth planning solutions.

Our USVI office was established in 1984 to provide company formation, administration and statutory representation services for Foreign Sales Corporations (FSC). FSCs were part of a US Government supported export tax incentive regime which terminated in 2000.

Since its founding in 1984, the office has expanded its services to include exempt company and exempt limited liability company formation, representation and administration, and local corporate representation for foreign companies - both international and domestic (U.S) - which wish to qualify to do business in the USVI. Such companies are required to appoint a local registered agent, a service which our office provides to a large number of clients. We also offer an extensive range of document filing and retrieval services with various government departments.

Our Vancouver office provides formation and representation services for companies and limited partnerships in the province of British Columbia and also assists professional advisors and financial institutions in Canada and on the U.S. West Coast access the services the Group offers for the implementation of a client’s international succession, asset protection and business planning. The Vancouver office’s Mandarin language capabilities are particularly helpful for professional advisors and institutions with clients from various Asian countries.