Notarial services

The range of documents we notarise include:

• powers of attorney (typically in favour of overseas attorneys / lawyers)
• sworn statements, declarations & affidavits
• documents relating to litigation / disputes overseas
• documents dealing with land, property and finances overseas
• documents relating to overseas assets of a deceased person
• company and business documents for use where a company is registering overseas entity or is registering, for example, a trade mark
• personal documents for applications to marry or to work abroad
• documents relating to the overseas travel of unaccompanied minor children
• confirmation of the identity of individuals
• confirmation of the identity of directors, secretaries and other officers of a company.
• certified copies of identification documents
• verification of academic certificates

Jonathan Thornton and Christopher Salomons are our notaries. Each of them is also a solicitor. They are each able to deal with most notarial documents but Jonathan is a company and business lawyer and so tends to deal with company notarisations while Chris handles cross border tax and estate issues, and also speaks both Dutch and French, and so Chris tends to deal with notarisations for private individuals.

We are able to identify your requirements quickly and effectively and advise the best way to proceed and inform you of any additional steps which may be necessary to authenticate the document in a form that is acceptable in the country of its destination.

Where the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office apostille / legalisation is required urgently we can usually obtain this within 24 hours, often on the same day.

We can also arrange postal apostille / legalisation which usually takes up to 5 days to process where required.

Our solicitors can also advise on cross-border estates (where someone has died with assets in different countries) and can provide detailed advice in relation to buying/selling overseas property and the tax and inheritance implications of such transactions and the different inheritance tax rules in many other countries. This advice is distinct from the function of our notaries.