Bearer Shares

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Bearer Shares

12 Dec 2017 in Offshores

Only a few decades ago, bearer shares were the normal way to establish ownership rights in a company. When you incorporated a company, you received share certificates with no one’s name recorded on it. Whoever possessed the certificate controlled ownership.