Corporate Structuring
Groups of companies across several countries: holding companies, companies that own your IP, joint-venture companies, and moving a company to a new country.
Corporate structuring is the thinking that happens before a single company is set up. We work out the trading companies, holding layers, IP companies and financing companies a group actually needs — matched to who it deals with, the tax treaties available and where its owners are tax resident.
You get a written structure plan: a diagram of the companies, what real presence each one needs, which treaties apply and what tax is kept back on payments between them, and a step-by-step plan to build it or move it. It's the document your auditor, your bank, your tax lawyer and any future buyer will read.
We start with your business purpose, tax position, banking needs and how decisions should be made. Every proposed structure is checked against those before anything is built.
What we do for you
- Which tax treaties help you
- How much real presence each company needs
- Moving companies between countries
Who usually uses this
- Founders preparing for a funding round, international expansion or a sale
- Groups tidying twenty-plus companies into one clear structure
- Families moving their tax residence who need their companies to follow
- Managers moving a fund or business group between countries
One team, step by step, from the first call to handing it over.
Two weeks reviewing your existing companies, IP, contracts and where everything is taxed.
Two or three structure options, with the tax, presence, banking and reputation trade-offs written out.
A specialist-checked structure plan, with a step-by-step timeline to build it.
Setting up and moving companies, transferring shares and IP, and signing agreements between group companies — all run by one project manager.
Board packs, group policies and a yearly compliance calendar for the new structure.
What you receive.
Every engagement closes with a specialist-reviewed handover pack — retained on file for thirty years.
- Structure plan with a company diagram
- Analysis of tax treaties and tax kept back on payments
- Real-presence plan for each company
- Agreements between group companies and IP transfers
- Board resolutions and shareholder approvals
- Project plan for building it
The countries we most often use for this service.
Questions we hear on every intake call.
- How long does a full restructuring take?
- A typical group restructuring — diagnosis, design and building — takes four to ten weeks. Moving companies or IP between countries can stretch that to three to four months.
- Can you work alongside our existing tax advisers?
- Yes. Most of our structuring work runs alongside a big accounting or law firm's tax team. We own the company design; your tax advisers sign off the tax opinion.
- Do you build it too, or only design it?
- Both. A design is only useful once it's built. We run the building — set-ups, moves, share transfers, agreements — under one project manager.
Start with a twenty-minute call. Come away with a written plan and price.
Every engagement begins with our advisory team and is assigned to the relevant specialists. Fees are quoted in writing before any work begins. No hourly billing.
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