Bail bondsman, sometimes shortened to bondsman, referred to someone who facilitated bounty transactions.
During the Clone Wars, a Devaronian bail bondsman conducted business in the lower levels of Coruscant. This middleman provided employment to bounty hunters, compensating them after they finished a job. This bondsman was the one who gave Asajj Ventress the bounty assignment concerning the runaway Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, who had been falsely accused of the bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar. After Ventress apprehended her, the renegade Jedi objected to her, a notorious war criminal of that time, suggesting that she would simply hand her over to the Jedi Order. Ventress countered by stating that she could transfer Ahsoka to a bondsman.