Insights, guides & briefings.
Working papers from our senior advisors on cross-border structuring, banking, licensing, mobility and tax. Long-form guides for the topics that repay careful reading; short briefings when the news moves.
Tier-by-tier diagrams of holding stacks, funds, trusts, licensed entities and asset vehicles — with the tax drivers and the failure points.
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Employer of Record vs. Local Entity: Hiring Across Borders Without the Mess
An EOR lets you hire abroad without incorporating. Here's the headcount and cost threshold where setting up a local entity actually becomes cheaper.
Redomiciling a Company: When Moving Jurisdiction Beats Starting Over
Redomiciliation lets a company change jurisdiction without dissolving. Here's when continuation beats liquidate-and-reincorporate, and what actually survives the move.
Private Foundations vs. Trusts: Choosing a Vehicle for Giving and Control
Civil-law families often default to a foundation without knowing why. Here's the practical difference between a foundation and a trust for giving and control.
Trust Protectors: The Role Nobody Explains Until It Matters
A trust protector can override trustee decisions, remove trustees, and reshape the trust, but only within limits families rarely check upfront.
Mid-year structuring report 2026: what is working, what has stopped working
Six months of filings, applications and restructurings, summarised. This report sets out which structures are still doing their job in 2026, which have quietly stopped, where the friction has moved, and what we would build differently today than we would have in 2023.
Cross-border 2026 outlook: banks, jurisdictions, licences
Cross-border structuring in 2026 is being reshaped by three forces at once: bank de-risking, beneficial-ownership register visibility, and a licensing backlog in every major fintech and crypto jurisdiction. This director-authored outlook sets out where we see the pressure points for the year ahead, which corridors are quietly opening, and how to build structures that are still standing in 2028.
Why founders lose value twelve months before a sale — not at the sale
A seven-, eight- or nine-figure exit is not decided at the term sheet. It is decided in the twelve to eighteen months of quiet structuring work before the buyer ever sees a data room. Founders who wait until an LOI to think about holding companies, IP location and personal residency consistently leave value on the table. Here is what changes if you start early.
The 2026 guide to offshore company formation
Offshore company formation in 2026 is no longer about choosing the cheapest register. BVI, Cayman, UAE free zones, Singapore, Delaware and the Channel Islands each solve different problems — and each carries different banking, substance and reporting costs. This director-level guide walks through jurisdiction fit, opening accounts, keeping the structure alive, and the exit routes we plan for from day one.
The single-family-office set-up checklist
Setting up a single-family office is a governance exercise as much as a legal one. Structure, licensing, jurisdiction, staffing, technology, reporting cadence, custody and banking all have to line up before the first investment is booked. This is the working checklist we take every new SFO principal through, sequenced in the order that avoids expensive rework six months in.
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