Services Overview

"Providing advisory, management and administrative services relating to offshore companies, corporate structuring, international tax planning, trusts and market entry"

Introduction

We specialise in designing, implementing and managing or providing trustees to international corporate and fiduciary structures. Our core skills are the establishment and administration of secure and efficient corporate and trust structures to reduce tax, protect wealth and facilitate international business. Specifically, we deliver private and cost-effective offshore and onshore company management and trustee services.

Our global focus includes the areas of:

• Offshore company formation in all major jurisdictions
• Company formation in all European countries
• Company formation in all 50 states of the USA
• Company formation in Asia, Australia and New Zealand
• Branch registration of foreign corporations
• Company management and administration
• Establishments of trusts and foundations
• Trusteeship and provision of foundation councils
• Corporate structuring and re-structuring
• Corporate tax planning
• Configuring market entry
• Compliance and risk assessment
• Accounting
• Yacht registration and management

Advisory Services

Our international team of lawyers, accountants and commercial experts are fully conversant with international business and the world’s tax treaties and are therefore able to offer you a bespoke advisory service which includes:

• Advice on the selection, establishment and maintenance of company
   or trust structures
• Advice on the establishment and maintenance of foundations
• Advice to clients seeking to establish or restructure international
   or offshore operations
• Advice on market entry into China, Asia and Europe
• Advice on matters relating to out-sourcing and procurement in China
• Corporate structuring, financial engineering and tax and VAT planning
• Assistance with the implementation of trading, investment and other structures
• Advice on domestic and overseas property ownership
• Contractual matters, billing and other day-to-day affairs of corporate structures
• Advice on utilising structures domiciled in high tax areas
   for international tax planning
• Advice and implementation of business start-ups
• Advice and implementation of cubicle/physical presence operations
• Expertise in utilising double tax treaties

Company Formation and Domiciliation Services

Fidfinvest offers you a customised incorporation service on a global scale. Whether you wish to establish a corporate presence in Europe, USA, Asia, elsewhere or simply offshore, our service is rapid, cost-effective and solutions driven. Our incorporation and related services include:

• Offshore company formation in all jurisdictions
• Company formation in all European countries
• Company formation in all 50 states of the USA
• Company formation in Asia, Australia and New Zealand
• Branch registration of foreign corporations
• Representative office registration
• Provision of registered office facilities
• Provision of registered agents
• Provision of local representatives and agents

Company Management, Secretarial and Compliance

We provide you with the security of having your company structured properly in accordance with legislation, and the statutory records and annual returns maintained on sophisticated company secretarial software to ensure the company fulfils its obligations each year. These services include:

• Establishment and maintenance of statutory records
• Corporate structuring
• Issuance of share certificates or other ownership instruments
• Preparation and filing of annual returns
• Preparation and filing of licence applications
• Preparation, filing and payment of licence fees
• Translation services in all major languages
• Corporate governance and international compliance

Commercial Services

Fidfinvest is proud to offer you a range of commercial services to support and enhance your business activities. These include:

• A turn-key administrative service for client companies
• Project management
• Arranging the provision of legal and taxation advice and opinions
• Drafting commercial agreements, consultancy and employment contracts
• Assistance with the opening and operation of bank accounts
• Trading and letter of credit services
• A turn-key service for companies trading in or with the European Union, including    VAT registration, the filing of VAT returns, management, accounting,
   audit documentary credit transactions, cash management, invoicing etc.
• Payroll solutions and management
• International personal pension schemes.

Accountancy Services

By entrusting us with your accounting activities, you are not only accessing Fidfinvest global expertise you are also freeing up yourself and your team to focus on your core areas of expertise. Our proactive accountancy teams provide:

• Accounting, financial reporting and consolidation
• The preparation of management and statutory accounts
• Arranging audits
• VAT advice, registration and related services
• Financial modelling and forecasting
• Preparation of business plans
• Preparation and filing of tax returns
• Tax computation and submission
• Debt analysis and recovery services

Transfer of Administration

For private and corporate clients who are either disqualified with their current administrations or for clients who wish to consolidate their international corporate services through a dedicated point of contact, Fidfinvest can arrange to take over the management and administration of existing companies, trusts and other structures at no initial cost to the client.

Virtual Office Services

Our customised virtual office service allows you to set up everything you need to run an office without having to pay the rent, salaries and overhead costs of a normal office. These services include:

• Use of a prestige city business address
• A local telephone number answered by our customer service centres
• Call transfers to wherever you are, worldwide
• Voicemail
• Use of a fax number enabling receipt and forwarding
• Mail acceptance and forwarding
• Touch down office and meeting room facilities
• Wide range of business support services
• IT management and assistance
• Online office manager.

Trust and Trustee Services

A fiduciary structure can help preserve your wealth and offer you greater flexibility over the management and distribution of your assets. The most common type of fiduciary structure is a trust, a binding arrangement whereby assets are transferred to a “trustee” who is required to administer the trust assets for the benefit of specified beneficiaries strictly in accordance with the terms of the trust. Through Fidfinvest licensed trust and trustee companies clients are offered:

• A bespoke service regarding the establishment of an offshore trust
• Trusteeship and related services
• Administration of trust funds
• Trust accounting and maintenance of asset ledgers
• Reporting and filing as appropriate
• Guidance

Foundation and Council Services

Foundations are a very important component when structuring the ownership of family and corporate assets and are particularly important where trusts are generally not requested. They are in many respects similar to corporate entities but afford the protection and continuity derived from the use of trusts.

Practical uses include:

• Holding assets which can be passed on from one generation to the next (estate planning)
• Asset protection
• Inheritance tax planning
• Avoidance of forced heir ship rules
• Maintenance of corporate control
• Separation of voting and economic benefits
• Employee share option schemes
• Charitable purposes

Escrow Services

Fidfinvest is able to offer clients a comprehensive business to business escrow service to avoid risk for both buyer and seller and to ensure that conditions precedent are met prior to exchange.

This service is particularly important for parties who want to transact commercial business but are uncertain of each other and their respective business practices and culture.

E-Commerce Services

Through a group subsidiary E-Solutions Limited we are able to offer turn-key solutions to include:

• Web design
• Database and application development
• Web strategy and programming
• Web localisation/transaction management
• Site maintenance and support
• Domain name registration
• Online payment processing
• E-mail hosting, screening and management
• Optimisation and positioning