Opening an account abroad, bidding for work overseas, or rolling a staff policy out across six countries? We handle certificates of incorporation, articles of association, share registers, board minutes, master service agreements, statements of work, codes of conduct, supplier terms and briefing decks, in whatever format your team already works in.
Every file comes back signed, stamped and dated where certification is needed, with the layout left as your designer built it. Overseas banks, chambers of commerce, embassies, registries and tender panels all take it as delivered. Quotes are based on word count, so you know the cost before a single page is opened.
We work on contracts as a set, not one at a time. A master agreement and its statement of work use the same defined terms, so both go to the same linguist. We keep your glossary on file, which means next year's amendment still matches what you signed this year.
Banks abroad ask for the whole company pack at once. The incorporation certificate, the articles, the register of members, the register of directors and your Companies House filing. We do all five together and write the company name the same way on every page.
Tenders close at a fixed time and the portal does not wait. We plan the work backwards from that hour rather than from a comfortable delivery date. Send us the pack early, even as a draft, and we line up the linguists while you finish it.
Send the documents, name the target languages and tell us the deadline you are working to. You get a breakdown per language, a turnaround estimate and a clear price for adding a review stage. Repeated wording across a set is discounted before the figure reaches you.
Straightforward for a one off, and the same route whether you are sending one contract or a full set across several markets. One account manager owns the project throughout.
Send the editable originals where you have them, since working from Word or slides keeps the layout cleaner than a flattened PDF. List every language you need, name the audience, and pass over any glossary or brand terms your company already uses.
The quote breaks down by language and by document, so you can drop a market or add one without starting again. Repeated clauses across a set are counted once. Certification, notarising or a chamber of commerce stamp are priced here as separate lines.
Everything comes back in the format you sent, checked for layout as well as language. Where you asked for a review, a second linguist works through it before delivery. Certified sets arrive signed and stamped, with hard copies posted if a registry wants paper.
Send editable originals
Priced by word count
Broken down per language
Layout stays intact
Review stage on request
Commercial data secured
Nordic rollouts, Gulf banking files and Latin American distributor packs all come through here. Sending one document into six markets at once is normal, and our official translation services keep terminology identical across every version so nothing contradicts itself later.
Most of this work has a commercial deadline sitting behind it. Below are the jobs companies bring us, and what tends to be at stake when they do.
Foreign banks ask for the incorporation certificate, articles, registers and Companies House filings as one set, often notarised and legalised before they will look at it.
Framework agreements and their statements of work must read as one voice. Sending them to the same linguist keeps defined terms matching between the two documents.
A code of conduct only works if every office reads the same rules. These usually arrive as slide decks and go out to several languages on the same deadline.
Public tenders abroad run to a fixed hour and reject late submissions without discussion. We plan these backwards from the portal deadline rather than the delivery date.
A power of attorney bound for the Gulf or the Middle East may need a chamber of commerce stamp, the Foreign Office and then the embassy. We manage that chain end to end.
Briefing documents and shopper toolkits carry brand language that has to land locally. Clients regularly add a review stage on anything a retail partner will see.
Instructions, safety sheets and specifications go to subject specialists rather than a general commercial linguist, so the terminology holds up on a workshop floor.
Bringing foreign terms into a UK business means reading them properly first. We render them faithfully and flag anything that looks out of step with practice here.
New starters arrive with qualifications, references and clearance certificates from several countries. HR teams across the Midlands use our certified translation services in Birmingham for exactly this, sending the batch together for one invoice.
Product pages, help centres and campaign copy need a different touch to a contract, so those go to writers rather than to a contract linguist.
Acquisitions and investor reviews pull in board minutes, registers and supplier contracts at short notice, along with passport translation for every named director. Consistency across the data room matters more than speed alone.
Production companies send contributor paperwork, releases and research material, almost always under a signed agreement before anything is transferred.
Contracts, pricing and unreleased product material do not belong in a shared inbox. Files are encrypted, opened only by the assigned team, never used as samples and removed once a project closes. We will sign your own agreement before anything is transferred, and larger projects can come through a secure link.
Marketing teams launching in four markets at once, finance directors opening an overseas account, and agencies working to a client deadline they cannot move. These are their words, unedited, and they tell you more about how we work than any list of promises would.