Trust & Planning

As well as helping to protect your assets, a fiduciary structure can offer you greater flexibility over their management and distribution. The most common type of fiduciary structure is called a ‘trust’, a binding arrangement whereby assets are transferred to a ‘trustee’, who is required to administer its assets for the benefit of specified beneficiaries. The trustee must do this strictly in accordance with the terms of the trust.

We provide worldwide licensed trust and trustee entities with:

• A bespoke offshore trust establishment service
• Trusteeship and related services
• Trust fund administration
• Trust accounting and maintenance of asset ledgers
• Reporting and filing when required
• Financial consultancy and guidance

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Company House Filings

The Companies Acts require company information to be filed within certain timeframes. We can make filings on your behalf, ensuring you file the right information at the right time. Incorrect filings can incur expensive legal fees when they are identified and need to be corrected.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Company Incorporation

We are happy to incorporate companies on your behalf.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Data Room Management

If you are looking at any significant corporate transaction, the counterparty will request access to your proprietary company data. We can help you anticipate the information that will be required, and manage the compilation and secure sharing of that data with your counterparties.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Deadline Monitoring

Companies have a multitude of deadlines that need to be monitored. Our online monitoring service ensures deadlines never slide past unnoticed.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Dividend Payments

When you pay dividends, you first need to ensure that the company has sufficient distributable reserves, otherwise the distribution is unlawful. There are key documents that the company needs to produce, such as board resolutions and dividend vouchers. Our team of experts can provide you with advice or prepare the documents on your behalf.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Corporate Documents and Agreements

We have considerable experience reviewing and drafting all manner of corporate and legal documents, including intra-group management services agreements, deeds of variation, and company policies and handbooks. We can manage one-off agreements, or monitor and maintain policies and handbooks to keep pace with sector-specific changes.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Managing General Meetings Including AGMs

If you register with us, you can have your registered office address in the heart of Mayfair.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Registered Office Service

If you register with us, you can have your registered office address in the heart of Mayfair.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Shareholders Agreements

Agreements between shareholders are commonplace amongst private companies to define the rights and restrictions on each shareholder. We can provide you with the necessary structure for these agreements, and ensure that the necessary points are documented correctly.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Statutory Compliance

Our statutory compliance service combines Companies House filings and deadline monitoring services.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Subsidiary Management

As companies expand and have groups of subsidiaries, the rules to which those subsidiaries are subject often vary. Sometimes this is deliberate, but more often than not it has simply evolved. This can create additional compliance overhead.

Through the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR), the FCA has highlighted the issue of appropriate delegation of authorities and ensuring directors are discharging their duties correctly to each company. But many companies take a group view and lose sight of the independent nature of each company within the group. If this sounds familiar to you, we can advise you on the effective management of your subsidiaries.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Board Support

The Companies Acts require company information to be filed within certain timeframes. We can make filings on your behalf, ensuring you file the right information at the right time. Incorrect filings can incur expensive legal fees when they are identified and need to be corrected.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Transaction Agent

We are skilled at project managing corporate transactions to ensure they are completed within realistic timeframes. We also have considerable experience reviewing and drafting all manner of corporate and legal documents. Whether your project requires expert leadership, project management or additional manpower, we can help.

CORPORATE

Tax

• Anti-avoidance Scheme or Arrangements
• Corporation tax
• Dividends
• Double taxation agreements
• Financial instruments
• Property Tax
• Thin capitalisation
• Transfer pricing
• VAT
• Withholding taxes

CORPORATE

Start-Ups

• Disincorporation
• Due diligence
• Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions
• Restructuring

CORPORATE

Corporate Transaction

• Disincorporation
• Due diligence
• Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions
• Restructuring

CORPORATE

Corporate Governance

• Anti-bribery complianceAnti-bribery compliance
• Board and Committee effectiveness reviews
• Corporate governance disclosures
• Corporate social responsibility
• Governance audit and reviews
• Governance framework reviews
• Internal controls
• Policy review/drafting
• Schemes of delegation
• Strategic plan
• Subsidiary governance
• Terms of reference
• QCA Code
• UK Corporate Governance Code

Succession Planning

For family businesses, succession planning is crucial to sustain the company over time. By working with owners and family members to determine future ownership, employment and resource allocations, we can help to ensure the continued success of the business. Without proper succession planning, the business and the family can end up in conflict and legal difficulties.

Wills

Our will writing services help you plan for the future, ensuring your assets go to the people or causes you choose. In the unfortunate event of a death, the last thing family members want is the often painful process of estate division. A will can help make a difficult time less difficult.

Letters of Administration

In case of an unfortunate accident or mental impairment, we ensure that our clients have in place Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) to cover health and welfare, and assets and finance. Should you experience a tragedy without an LPA in place, the courts will freeze your financial affairs. But if you have an LPA in place, someone you have previously appointed can look after your wealth and your health.

Estate Planning

Estate Planning is the process of arranging the bequeathing of a person’s estate during their life. It is a way of not only reducing uncertainties for your loved ones, but also reducing the possibilities of legal disputes. Estate planning maximises the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses.

NCA Tax Investigation

Government agencies regularly carry out enquiries to ensure that everyone complies with tax regulations. Individuals under investigation can rely on our swift and responsive team of qualified experts to plan a rebuttal. We are covered by fee protection insurance on behalf of our clients. The fees required to rebut a tax investigation are therefore usually covered.

Personal Tax Compliance

We provide bespoke tax planning advice for individuals and families. Our personal tax division acts as tax agent for private individuals including artists, actors, entrepreneurs, sports personalities and land/property owners. Our specialties include:

• Tax compliance issues
• Self-assessment returns
• Capital Gains Tax planning
• Complying with flat tax issues for non UK residents
• Remittance of income
• Remittance of capital
• Double tax treaties issues
• Capital gains arising from sale of property
• Investment income from abroad
• Interest income
• Dividend income

Inheritance Planning

Inheritance Tax becomes due if a person’s estate is worth more than £325,000 when they pass away. This is called the Inheritance Tax threshold. The rate of Inheritance Tax is 40% on anything above the threshold.

We provide high net worth individuals and families with financial and tax planning to avoid tax burdens in the unfortunate event of a death. Our inheritance tax team tailor inheritance plans to suit each of our clients’ diverse needs. We take maximum advantage of all exemptions and laws so that you pay only the minimum necessary.

Measures include:

• Using the spouse exemption within your will
• Gifting assets
• Setting up a trust
• Taking out specific insurance policies
• Skipping a generation

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

UK Process Agent

• Anti-bribery compliance
• Board and Committee effectiveness reviews
• Corporate governance disclosures
• Corporate social responsibility
• Governance audit and reviews
• Governance framework reviews
• Internal controls
• Policy review/drafting
• Schemes of delegation
• Strategic plan
• Subsidiary governance
• Terms of reference
• QCA Code
• UK Corporate Governance Code

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Board Calendars

Directors are responsible for a wide range of matters. A well-considered board calendar gives you the structure you need to ensure you have adequately covered your duties. Without this structure, it is easy for important matters to be overlooked. Do you feel assured that you are doing all the right things in your role as a company director?

Trust & Planning

As well as helping to protect your assets, a fiduciary structure can offer you greater flexibility over their management and distribution. The most common type of fiduciary structure is called a ‘trust’, a binding arrangement whereby assets are transferred to a ‘trustee’, who is required to administer its assets for the benefit of specified beneficiaries. The trustee must do this strictly in accordance with the terms of the trust.

We provide worldwide licensed trust and trustee entities with:

• A bespoke offshore trust establishment service
• Trusteeship and related services
• Trust fund administration
• Trust accounting and maintenance of asset ledgers
• Reporting and filing when required
• Financial consultancy and guidance

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Company House Filings

The Companies Acts require company information to be filed within certain timeframes. We can make filings on your behalf, ensuring you file the right information at the right time. Incorrect filings can incur expensive legal fees when they are identified and need to be corrected.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Company Incorporation

We are happy to incorporate companies on your behalf.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Data Room Management

If you are looking at any significant corporate transaction, the counterparty will request access to your proprietary company data. We can help you anticipate the information that will be required, and manage the compilation and secure sharing of that data with your counterparties.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Deadline Monitoring

Companies have a multitude of deadlines that need to be monitored. Our online monitoring service ensures deadlines never slide past unnoticed.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Dividend Payments

When you pay dividends, you first need to ensure that the company has sufficient distributable reserves, otherwise the distribution is unlawful. There are key documents that the company needs to produce, such as board resolutions and dividend vouchers. Our team of experts can provide you with advice or prepare the documents on your behalf.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Corporate Documents and Agreements

We have considerable experience reviewing and drafting all manner of corporate and legal documents, including intra-group management services agreements, deeds of variation, and company policies and handbooks. We can manage one-off agreements, or monitor and maintain policies and handbooks to keep pace with sector-specific changes.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Managing General Meetings Including AGMs

If you register with us, you can have your registered office address in the heart of Mayfair.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Registered Office Service

If you register with us, you can have your registered office address in the heart of Mayfair.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Shareholders Agreements

Agreements between shareholders are commonplace amongst private companies to define the rights and restrictions on each shareholder. We can provide you with the necessary structure for these agreements, and ensure that the necessary points are documented correctly.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Statutory Compliance

Our statutory compliance service combines Companies House filings and deadline monitoring services.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Subsidiary Management

As companies expand and have groups of subsidiaries, the rules to which those subsidiaries are subject often vary. Sometimes this is deliberate, but more often than not it has simply evolved. This can create additional compliance overhead.

Through the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR), the FCA has highlighted the issue of appropriate delegation of authorities and ensuring directors are discharging their duties correctly to each company. But many companies take a group view and lose sight of the independent nature of each company within the group. If this sounds familiar to you, we can advise you on the effective management of your subsidiaries.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Board Support

The Companies Acts require company information to be filed within certain timeframes. We can make filings on your behalf, ensuring you file the right information at the right time. Incorrect filings can incur expensive legal fees when they are identified and need to be corrected.

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Transaction Agent

We are skilled at project managing corporate transactions to ensure they are completed within realistic timeframes. We also have considerable experience reviewing and drafting all manner of corporate and legal documents. Whether your project requires expert leadership, project management or additional manpower, we can help.

CORPORATE

Tax

• Anti-avoidance Scheme or Arrangements
• Corporation tax
• Dividends
• Double taxation agreements
• Financial instruments
• Property Tax
• Thin capitalisation
• Transfer pricing
• VAT
• Withholding taxes

CORPORATE

Start-Ups

• Disincorporation
• Due diligence
• Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions
• Restructuring

CORPORATE

Corporate Transaction

• Disincorporation
• Due diligence
• Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions
• Restructuring

CORPORATE

Corporate Governance

• Anti-bribery complianceAnti-bribery compliance
• Board and Committee effectiveness reviews
• Corporate governance disclosures
• Corporate social responsibility
• Governance audit and reviews
• Governance framework reviews
• Internal controls
• Policy review/drafting
• Schemes of delegation
• Strategic plan
• Subsidiary governance
• Terms of reference
• QCA Code
• UK Corporate Governance Code

Succession Planning

For family businesses, succession planning is crucial to sustain the company over time. By working with owners and family members to determine future ownership, employment and resource allocations, we can help to ensure the continued success of the business. Without proper succession planning, the business and the family can end up in conflict and legal difficulties.

Wills

Our will writing services help you plan for the future, ensuring your assets go to the people or causes you choose. In the unfortunate event of a death, the last thing family members want is the often painful process of estate division. A will can help make a difficult time less difficult.

Letters of Administration

In case of an unfortunate accident or mental impairment, we ensure that our clients have in place Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) to cover health and welfare, and assets and finance. Should you experience a tragedy without an LPA in place, the courts will freeze your financial affairs. But if you have an LPA in place, someone you have previously appointed can look after your wealth and your health.

Estate Planning

Estate Planning is the process of arranging the bequeathing of a person’s estate during their life. It is a way of not only reducing uncertainties for your loved ones, but also reducing the possibilities of legal disputes. Estate planning maximises the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses.

NCA Tax Investigation

Government agencies regularly carry out enquiries to ensure that everyone complies with tax regulations. Individuals under investigation can rely on our swift and responsive team of qualified experts to plan a rebuttal. We are covered by fee protection insurance on behalf of our clients. The fees required to rebut a tax investigation are therefore usually covered.

Personal Tax Compliance

We provide bespoke tax planning advice for individuals and families. Our personal tax division acts as tax agent for private individuals including artists, actors, entrepreneurs, sports personalities and land/property owners. Our specialties include:

• Tax compliance issues
• Self-assessment returns
• Capital Gains Tax planning
• Complying with flat tax issues for non UK residents
• Remittance of income
• Remittance of capital
• Double tax treaties issues
• Capital gains arising from sale of property
• Investment income from abroad
• Interest income
• Dividend income

Inheritance Planning

Inheritance Tax becomes due if a person’s estate is worth more than £325,000 when they pass away. This is called the Inheritance Tax threshold. The rate of Inheritance Tax is 40% on anything above the threshold.

We provide high net worth individuals and families with financial and tax planning to avoid tax burdens in the unfortunate event of a death. Our inheritance tax team tailor inheritance plans to suit each of our clients’ diverse needs. We take maximum advantage of all exemptions and laws so that you pay only the minimum necessary.

Measures include:

• Using the spouse exemption within your will
• Gifting assets
• Setting up a trust
• Taking out specific insurance policies
• Skipping a generation

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

UK Process Agent

• Anti-bribery compliance
• Board and Committee effectiveness reviews
• Corporate governance disclosures
• Corporate social responsibility
• Governance audit and reviews
• Governance framework reviews
• Internal controls
• Policy review/drafting
• Schemes of delegation
• Strategic plan
• Subsidiary governance
• Terms of reference
• QCA Code
• UK Corporate Governance Code

COMPANY SECRETARIAL

Board Calendars

Directors are responsible for a wide range of matters. A well-considered board calendar gives you the structure you need to ensure you have adequately covered your duties. Without this structure, it is easy for important matters to be overlooked. Do you feel assured that you are doing all the right things in your role as a company director?