Partner Programme · Chern & Co / RegisterCompany.ie
Your clients need an Irish company, a registered office, tax registrations or ongoing compliance. You do not need to build an Irish delivery team to give it to them. Chern & Co is an Irish trust or company service provider authorised by the Department of Justice. We deliver the work. You choose whether your client sees our name or yours.
Last updated: September 2026
Authorised TCSP
Reference TCSP APP/1211/2018, Department of Justice
Irish company
Registered number 604324, Limerick
Named partner manager
One person who knows your matters
Who we partner with
The Chern & Co partner programme is for professional firms whose clients need corporate services in Ireland. Chern & Co Ltd is an Irish trust or company service provider (TCSP) authorised under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 as amended. We provide Irish company formation, corporate administration, tax registration, accounting, payroll and compliance support, and we deliver that work either in our own name or behind your brand, depending on the partnership model you choose.
This is not an affiliate scheme and it is not a lead-generation network. We do not pay for traffic, clicks or lists. If your business is selling introductions rather than advising clients, this programme will not suit you. We work with firms that have a professional relationship with the client and will still have one after the Irish company exists.
Ways to work together
There are three ways to work with us. Only one applies to a given partner relationship at a time. The difference between them is not the size of the reward. It is who owns the client relationship, whose brand the client sees, and who carries the commercial risk.
MODEL ONE
You meet a client who needs something in Ireland and you introduce them to us. We take over from there: we scope the work, contract with the client, invoice the client and deliver. There is normally no agreement to sign and no commercial arrangement between us. This suits a firm that encounters Irish work occasionally and wants the client looked after by a provider it can stand over.
MODEL TWO
You introduce clients regularly. The client still contracts with Chern & Co, we still invoice and deliver, but the relationship is formalised. Each referral is recorded against your partner record, you receive a one-off commission on the client's first order, and you can see the status of your referred matters in the Partner Workspace.
MODEL THREE
You keep the client. The client contracts with you, is invoiced by you and sees your brand throughout. Chern & Co performs the agreed Irish services as your delivery provider. You buy the service from us at a partner price, you set your own price to your client, and you keep the difference.
| Simple Referral | Referral Partner | White-Label Partner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who holds the client relationship | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | You |
| Whose brand the client sees | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | Yours |
| Who contracts with the client | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | You |
| Who invoices the client | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | You |
| Who sets the price to the client | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | You |
| Who pays Chern & Co | The client | The client | You |
| Who is responsible for AML and KYC on the end client | Chern & Co | Chern & Co | Chern & Co, using information you help collect |
| How you are rewarded | This is a goodwill introduction. There is no commercial arrangement. | A one-off commission on the client's first order | A partner discount on our service fee. You resell at your own price. |
| Does the reward repeat on later work for the same client | Not applicable | No. The commission arises once per client, on the first order only. | Yes. The discount applies to every order you place while your tier is in force, including renewals and additional services. |
| Written agreement | Normally none | Referral Partner Agreement | White-Label Agreement |
| Partner due diligence before we start | No | Where required | Yes, it is a condition of us starting work |
The last two rows matter more than anything else on this page. A referral commission arises once, on a client's first order, and does not repeat when that client renews or buys something else. A white-label discount applies to every order you place. Over a client relationship that runs for years, those two are not the same arrangement and we will not pretend otherwise. If your clients are likely to come back, white-label is the model that pays you for that.
Client protection
Under the white-label model your client contracts with you, is invoiced by you and sees your brand. Chern & Co delivers behind it.
We will not approach your client with an offer of our own. The White-Label Agreement contains a non-circumvention undertaking on our side that runs for twelve months after the relationship ends.
The one exception
There is one exception, and we would rather state it here than let you find it in a clause. Where Irish anti-money-laundering law, a regulator, or the practical delivery of a service requires us to speak to the client, a director or a beneficial owner directly, we will do so. We coordinate that with you wherever it is practicable. No provider authorised as a trust or company service provider in Ireland can promise otherwise. A provider that does promise otherwise is not describing how the law works.
Service capability
The list below is what we deliver in Ireland. Under a white-label partnership you can present any of it as your own service. Under a referral partnership your client receives it from us.
More complex corporate, accounting, compliance and cross-border matters are assessed individually and coordinated with the appropriate specialists.
Why Chern & Co
Chern & Co Ltd is an Irish company, registered number 604324, at 18 Upper Mallow Street, Limerick, V94 N12Y. We trade as Chern.co and RegisterCompany.ie. We hold a Certificate of Authorisation to operate as a Trust or Company Service Provider under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 as amended, reference TCSP APP/1211/2018, issued by the State Competent Authority at the Department of Justice, with no conditions imposed.
The correct word is authorised, not licensed. Ireland does not issue a TCSP licence. An authorisation runs for three years and the list of holders is published in Iris Oifigiuil. Any provider describing itself as a licensed Irish TCSP is using the wrong term for the wrong document.
If you are a member of a designated accountancy body in Ireland, or an Irish solicitor or barrister, you do not. Section 84(1) of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 places members of designated accountancy bodies, barristers, solicitors, credit institutions and financial institutions outside Chapter 9, which is the chapter that requires a trust or company service provider to hold an authorisation. You are supervised by your own professional body instead.
We say this plainly because the alternative is to sell you a licence you already do not need. What we offer an Irish practice is not regulatory cover. It is delivery capacity: the filings, the registrations, the statutory work and the ongoing compliance, done properly and on time, without you hiring for it.
If your firm is outside Ireland, the position is different and our authorisation is the point. You are placing Irish work with an Irish provider that is supervised for it, rather than with an intermediary that is not.
How we work
Every matter follows the same seven steps, whichever partnership model applies. You can see where a matter sits at any point in the Partner Workspace.
You submit the request. You send the client enquiry through your Partner Request Form, quoting your Partner ID so it attaches to your partner record automatically.
We review it. We check the service requested, the scope, whether it is feasible, and what information we need to quote it.
We confirm scope and commercial terms. Nothing starts before both are agreed in writing.
Engagement and onboarding. The agreed service is invoiced in accordance with the model you work under, and the client completes our onboarding. Where a service is AML-sensitive, and company formation is, the anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer process is completed before we begin that service. Under a white-label partnership you can either send our client information form to the client directly or complete it on their behalf from information you already hold.
We do the work.
You track progress. Status is visible in the Partner Workspace and through your dedicated channel.
The matter completes, and usually continues. Formation leads into annual returns, tax filings, payroll and corporate changes.
Commercial partners receive access to a Partner Workspace connected to our internal case-management system. It shows your linked clients, the current status of each matter, services in progress, completed work, outstanding actions on your side, your partner status and tier, and commercial information where the model provides for it. Data is refreshed regularly through the day and is updated at least once daily.
A single identifier that links your clients and matters to your partner record. You enter it on the request form and it attaches everything automatically.
A structured route for submitting a new client or a new service request, so nothing is lost in an email thread.
A direct operational line for day-to-day questions, and a named Partner Manager behind it.
Partner tiers
Commercial partners progress through three partner tiers as qualifying client activity builds.
Your starting tier as a commercial partner, from your first qualifying client.
For partners with a consistent flow of clients and an established working relationship with our team.
For partners with sustained, ongoing activity.
Where the terms live
A higher tier means better commercial terms. Tier thresholds, rates and the commercial conditions attaching to each tier are set out in the appendix to your partnership agreement, which we send during onboarding along with the service catalogue. Tiers are counted by qualifying clients, not by turnover, and each client counts once regardless of how many services that client buys.
Partner onboarding
Questions
White label company formation is an arrangement in which one provider performs company formation and related corporate work while a second firm presents that service to the client under its own name. The client contracts with, is invoiced by and deals with the firm it already knows. The provider stays behind the brand. In Ireland the provider still carries its own regulatory obligations, including anti-money-laundering obligations on the end client, regardless of whose name is on the invoice.
In a referral the client becomes a Chern & Co client: we contract, invoice, set the price and own the relationship, and you receive a one-off commission on that client's first order. In a white-label partnership the client stays yours: you contract, invoice and set your own price, you buy the service from us at a partner price, and the partner price applies to every order you place, not only the first one.
If you are a member of a designated accountancy body in Ireland, or an Irish solicitor or barrister, no. Section 84(1) of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 places you outside Chapter 9, which is the chapter that requires an authorisation. If you are outside Ireland, the question is answered by your own jurisdiction's rules, and placing the Irish work with an authorised Irish provider is the straightforward route in any case.
That is decided by the professional rules that apply to you, not by us. The codes of ethics of the Irish designated accountancy bodies require a member in public practice to disclose a referral fee or commission to the client and to obtain the client's agreement in advance, and a fiduciary relationship requires the client's informed consent before the member retains it. Our Referral Partner Agreement reflects this: commission is payable only where the payment is lawful and permitted under the professional, regulatory, fiduciary, employment or ethical rules that apply to you, and you are required to make the disclosures those rules call for.
For many Irish practices the white-label model is simply cleaner. You buy a service from us and resell it. There is no third-party payment, so there is nothing to disclose and no conflict to manage. This is guidance on how our programme is built, not legal or professional-conduct advice on your own position.
Chern & Co. We decide the onboarding, customer due diligence, sanctions screening and client acceptance measures for every client and service, and we cannot delegate that decision. Under a white-label partnership you can collect the information and submit it on your client's behalf, or we can send our form to the client directly. Either way the assessment and the acceptance decision are ours.
No joining fee, no minimum volume, no obligation to send a set number of clients, and no exclusivity in either direction. You can work with other providers and we work with other partners.
Yes. Under the White-Label Agreement you determine your resale price. You keep the difference between the partner price and the price you charge, and you carry the commercial risk of your own markup, discounting, collection and bad debt.
The Companies Registration Office operates two routes. The Fe Phrainn scheme targets five working days for a correctly completed Form A1 and the ordinary route targets ten. In practice we plan on ten to fifteen working days from a complete file, because the clock only starts once the documents are right and the client's anti-money-laundering checks are done. Most delay in Irish formations is caused at the file-preparation stage, not at the Companies Registration Office.
Section 137 of the Companies Act 2014 requires an Irish company to have at least one director resident in the European Economic Area. A company without one must either hold a section 137 bond, which runs for a minimum of two years, or obtain a section 140 certificate from the Registrar confirming that the company has a real and continuous link with an economic activity in the State. We offer both routes, and we also provide a resident director service where that is the better answer for the client.
Our agreements set a liability cap and an escalation route, and both are in the agreement you sign rather than buried in terms published elsewhere. Your Partner Manager is the first escalation point. We would rather you raise a problem early than discover it through your client.
Either side can end the agreement on thirty days' written notice, and immediately for a material breach that is not remedied. Commission already earned is not affected.
Get in touch
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