Jersey company search: the Channel Island register that names shareholders
Use the JFSC Registry entities search. Searching and plain copies of filed records are free, with no account.
You'll see the directors, and the name and address of every shareholder holding 1% or more of a class. A certificate of good standing is £51 now, £53 from 1 January 2027. Beneficial owners stay closed.
Most offshore registers stop at a name and a status. Jersey goes further: directors with their month and year of birth, and shareholders by name. That makes it one of the best places in the Channel Islands to vet a counterparty, and a place where owners should plan what goes on the record.
Key takeaways
- The JFSC search is free by name, number or previous name, and plain copies of records cost nothing.
- Shareholders of 1% or more are public, with name and address.
- A good standing certificate is £51 online in 2026 and £53 from 1 January 2027.
- Beneficial owners aren't public; Jersey banks and other regulated firms can see them for due diligence.
- A struck off company is dissolved, and the Royal Court can undo that within ten years.
Jersey or New Jersey? Check you're on the right register
Search "Jersey company search" and much of what comes back is about the US state. The two have nothing in common, so start by matching the company's paperwork to the right island or state.
Address in St Helier or elsewhere on the island, a number from the Jersey Companies Registry, an ending such as Limited or Ltd. Run by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. This guide.
A US state business entity, often an LLC or Inc., with a ten digit New Jersey entity ID. Searched through the State of New Jersey's own business records service, not the JFSC.
Channel Island company, JFSC register. Anything with LLC on the end belongs somewhere else.
Who a Jersey company search names, and who it leaves out
The JFSC's page on associated parties sets out exactly what each role puts on the public record. Pick a role.
A company can apply to have particular details withheld from public view, but the JFSC grants that only in limited circumstances, such as a real risk to someone's safety. Don't plan around it.
Directors and shareholders of 1% or more are named; secretaries and beneficial owners aren't.
How to search the JFSC Companies Registry
- Type a name or number
Three boxes are ticked by default: name, registered number and previous names. Leave all three on.
Free, no account - Read the colours
Current names show in pink, former names in grey. A grey match means the company you know by that name now trades as something else.
- Open the record
Click the name for the entity details, the public documents and the certificates on offer.
- Take copies
Plain copies are free. Without a myRegistry account they arrive by email, and the links die after 14 days, so save them.
One trap: a business name and a company can share the same number in Jersey. Always match the number and the name together. Need the Registry's help? It answers on [email protected] in office hours.
Search with previous names switched on, and save free copies before the 14 day link expires.
Jersey certificate of good standing and Registry fees
A certificate of good standing is issued for active entities with every annual return or confirmation filed, any required accounts in, and a valid registered office. The JFSC says you can place full reliance on it. Fees change on 1 January; flip the year.
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The Registry's own fee web page still shows older figures; the JFSC's 2026 fees notice and 2027 fees notice are what's charged.
Using a Jersey document abroad
Apostilles come from the Government of Jersey's Passport Office, not the JFSC: £40 standard, usually one working day, or £85 same day. It handles only documents issued in Jersey and doesn't do e-apostilles, so ask the bank or authority abroad whether it wants the manually certified paper version before you order.
Order before 1 January and the certificate is £51; after, £53. Manual certification costs three times more.
Seven checks before you do business with a Jersey company
Six of these cost nothing. Run them in order and you'll know whether the company exists, who stands behind it, whether it's insolvent and whether it's licensed for what it claims to do.
JFSC search with previous names on. Status Active, and a registration date that fits the story.
FreeDo the people writing to you appear? Members of 1% or more are named, so a "sole owner" claim is easy to test.
FreeThe JFSC publishes strike off notices by year, including companies about to go.
FreeJersey's bankruptcy is called a désastre. The Viscount's Department keeps a free list of désastres declared, and sells a formal search.
Free listA bank, fund, insurer, investment firm or trust company must appear on the JFSC regulated entities search.
FreeMost non resident owned companies sit at a trust company's address. It should be on the same regulated list.
FreeProof the filings and office are in order, dated today, for your file or your bank.
£51 in 2026Say a Jersey company offers to buy your business for £250,000 and asks for exclusivity. Checks one to six take twenty minutes and cost nothing. If they pass, the £51 certificate goes in the deal file. Scan the JFSC news page while you're there: it posts warnings about firms impersonating real ones.
Jersey lets you vet a company almost entirely for free. Pay only for the certificate.
How a Jersey company gets struck off, and comes back
In Jersey, struck off and dissolved happen on the same day. Here's the path a company takes when its yearly filing goes unpaid, under the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991.
Missing a filing isn't the only route. The Registrar can also strike off a company that has stopped trading, lost its registered office or failed to report a change of beneficial owner, controller or significant person within 21 days.
A struck off Jersey company is dissolved. Only the Royal Court can bring it back, within ten years.
If you own a Jersey company: what the register shows about you
Every non resident's Jersey company runs through a JFSC licensed trust company, which provides the registered office, the secretary and the nominated person. What lands on the public record depends on whose names you put in the director's and shareholder's seats. Pick a setup.
Hold shares or a directorship personally and your name is public. A nominee keeps it off the register, never off a bank's file.
Jersey company search FAQ
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How does this compare with Guernsey?
Changelog
- 13 November 2026: first published.
Planning a Jersey company rather than checking one?
£2,930 in year one with the licensed trust company inside, then £2,870 a year. You choose what goes on the record.
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