Cross-Border
Structuring & Corporate.
We design and implement holding structures for internationally exposed clients, with a focus on substance, treaty access, and long-term resilience. Our work covers the full lifecycle of corporate vehicles — incorporation, ongoing governance, restructuring, and unwinding — and integrates the tax, regulatory, and operational constraints of each jurisdiction involved.
Six recurring workstreams.
Holding structures
Holding companies, sub-holdings, and intermediate vehicles, designed for resilience under treaty review.
Substance management
Economic-presence requirements, board composition, and operating substance calibrated to each jurisdiction.
Treaty access & ownership
Treaty analysis, beneficial-ownership structuring, and anti-abuse provisions reviewed at design stage.
Governance
Corporate governance, shareholder agreements, and director arrangements with cross-border enforceability.
M&A & reorganisations
Mergers, acquisitions, and intra-group reorganisations designed and executed across jurisdictions.
Wind-down & migration
Decommissioning of legacy structures and migration of corporate entities to new jurisdictions.
A senior partner leads each engagement.
Each engagement is led directly by a partner. We do not pass files down chains of associates before the partner has personally reviewed the record. The client speaks to the same person from first conversation to closing — and to that person's chosen correspondents in the jurisdictions where they sit.