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The Seychelles recently made a number of amendments to its International Business Companies (IBC) legislation, which will be enforced from 1 January 2013. The key amendments to the Act that clients should be aware of require an IBC to:

- Keep its share register and register of directors (or a copy) in the Seychelles

- Notify its Seychelles Registered Agent of the physical address (may be outside of the jurisdiction) where its minutes and resolutions are kept

- Notify its Seychelles Registered Agent of the physical address (which may be outside of the jurisdiction) where its financial records are kept

Contraventions of the amendments are subject to a daily penalty of USD25. A director of an IBC who knowingly permits a contravention is also subject to the same daily penalty. For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact IBN Offshore at dubai@ibn.co.za!

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News Highlight
23rd Apr 2012

BRICS Development Bank gets Green Light

In a first step to set up a development bank as counterweight to the US/EU-led World Bank and the IMF, the Finance Ministers of the BRICS member countries have met up this weekend on sidelines of the annual Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the IMF to discuss this important step.

In their consultations South Africa and other members of BRICS grouping have agreed on Sunday 22 April 2012 to establish a task force to come up with recommendations to set up a developmental bank, a move ...[MORE]

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Date: 18.05.2012
Time: 00:00

Capetown:

Temp.: 17 °C / 63 °F

Wind: NNW / 14 kn

Sunrise: 07:05
Sunset: 18:18

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Sunrise: 06:14
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IBN - Team: Ralph M Ertner

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Our Team

Directors:

Representatives:

Pieter Bouwer
(Hamburg, Germany)
Annekatrin Mehle
(Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Chang-Hwan Kim (김창환)
(Seoul, Korea)

Consultants:

Support:

Irene Ventura
(Receptionist)
Beauty Similela

Ralph M Ertner, assessor iuris, LLM (UCT)
Director IBN Johannesburg

Ralph M Ertner founded International Business Network (IBN), today IBN Consulting (Pty) Ltd in 1997. His career started at Deutsche Bank Berlin, where he was trained in and later responsible for asset and portfolio management. He went on to study law at the Free University of Berlin. After gaining experience at the law firms of Neuendorff & Partner (Berlin), Heussen Braun von Kessel (Munich) and Attorneys Jan S De Villiers (Cape Town) as well as Van der Spuy (Cape Town) he decided in 1995 to stay in South Africa permanently. Two years later he obtained the degree of Master of Laws at the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 2011 he relocated to Johannesburg and heading the local IBN Branch as well as overseeing IBN Dubai and IBN Korea.

With his specialist knowledge in commercial law, financial and international tax matters, Ralph contributes his energy and expertise to the benefit of IBN’s corporate clients. In addition he is the director of IBN Middle East Ltd in Dubai where he is responsible for offshore company incorporations and tax structures (IBN Offshore Solutions).

Ralph Ertner is author of various German publications on investment conditions in South Africa, among them “Tax Law – A Guideline for Investors” and “Investing in South Africa – Opportunities and Risks in the 21st Century”. Furthermore is he the author of several articles in the national and international media.