What we do, and what we refuse to do.
This page exists to set out clearly, before the call, what we do and what we refuse to do.
Our scope
- Choosing and forming companies in low-tax jurisdictions, declared and registered.
- Genuine transfer of tax residence, documented, with a timetable for severing the original link.
- Activity licences from the competent authorities, filed in your name.
- Registered office and premises meeting the jurisdiction's substance requirements.
- Preparing the banking file and presenting it to regulated institutions.
- Coordination with your current lawyer or accountant, or with one of our correspondents.
Out of scope, without exception
- Concealment of assets, circumvention of automatic exchange of information or of a tax procedure under way.
- Nominee shareholders or figurehead directors intended to mask the beneficial owner.
- Sham substance: an address without activity where the law requires genuine presence.
- A structure designed to escape a seizure, a divorce, a creditor or a court decision.
- A file whose source of funds we cannot verify. Our procedure applies to everyone.
- A promise of a tax rate that would not survive an audit. We would rather lose the sale.
Our client due diligence
It applies to every file, without exception, and before any incorporation. We verify the identity of each beneficial owner, the consistency between the declared activity and the flows announced, and the absence of proceedings in your country of origin. Verification of the source of funds is systematic; enhanced checks against an independent document apply from medium risk upwards. We retain these elements in line with our obligations and update them at each renewal.
We reserve the right to decline an engagement or to end one, and a refusal is notified in writing. A declined file does not stop us pointing you towards the lawful route that would meet your actual need, where one exists.
What we are not
We are not lawyers, chartered accountants, investment advisers or tax representatives. We cannot represent you in a tax procedure or issue a binding legal opinion. Where a recommendation calls for legal or tax advice, we have it validated by a qualified adviser, or we refer you to one; we work with tax lawyers in our clients' principal countries of origin.
Documents required
- A valid passport for each shareholder and each director.
- Proof of address less than three months old.
- A description of the activity, the clients and the expected flows.
- Evidence of the source of funds, verified against an independent document from medium risk upwards.
- A signed beneficial-owner form.
This list is our baseline, applied everywhere. The jurisdiction may require more — sworn translation, apostille, criminal record extract, bank reference — and we tell you which after the call, once the legal form is settled.