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Certified Shareholder Document Translation

eVerbary translates your shareholder document into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

Proving who owns a company

Ownership evidence takes a different form in every system. Some countries keep a libro de accionistas or livro de registro de ações at the company. Some record ownership in a commercial registry extract that anyone can pull. Some use quotas rather than shares, so there is no certificate at all and the constitutive instrument names the holders. Some use a notarial share transfer deed.

A US reader asking for "the stock certificates" may be asking for a document that does not exist in the jurisdiction. We translate what exists and name it accurately, including where the evidence is an entry in a book rather than an instrument.

Beneficial ownership is a separate question

Registered ownership and beneficial ownership are different, and many jurisdictions now maintain a separate beneficial-ownership declaration or register. Those declarations are their own documents with their own wording, and they are translated as declarations rather than merged into the ownership record.

Where a nominee or fiduciary arrangement appears, the terms used are kept in the original with a literal rendering, because the US equivalents import a body of law that may not apply.

What a complete package usually holds

• The commercial registry extract naming holders or administrators
• The share or quota register, or a certified extract from it
• Transfer deeds and any pre-emption waivers
• Bylaws with their transfer restrictions
• Board and shareholder resolutions approving transfers
• Beneficial ownership declarations

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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