Aegis Defence Services is a British private military company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the United States. It was founded in 2002 by Tim Spicer, who was previously director of the controversial private military company Sandline International. Since 27 July 2010 AEGIS Group Holdings AG in Basel, Switzerland is holding 1,125,000 ordinary shares of Aegis Defence Services Limited, London.