Fixed-fee projects
Incorporation, licensing, residency applications and account files are quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope, with third-party costs — government fees, legalisation, courier — itemised separately at cost.
Corporate & residency
What we are engaged to do
Three service lines that together cover a full international move: the company, the founder's status, and the bank accounts the business runs on. Growth marketing for fintech and financial companies is a separate practice with its own page.
Corporate structuring & formation
Most structures fail for one of two reasons: they were chosen from a price list rather than from the client's actual operations, or nobody checked in advance whether a bank would open an account for them. We start from the operating reality — where revenue is earned, where people sit, where customers are — and design backwards from what can be banked and defended.
Where a jurisdiction reserves incorporation and statutory filings to a licensed agent — Singapore's ACRA-registered filing agents, for example — the filing is made by a licensed agent, named to the client. We prepare the file, run the engagement and stay accountable for the result.
- Jurisdiction selection and comparison
- Free zone and mainland company formation (UAE)
- Private limited companies (Singapore)
- LLC and corporation formation (Delaware, Wyoming)
- Holding and operating structure design
- Shareholder and ownership chain documentation
- Nominee-free substance planning
- Registered office, address and secretarial services
- Licence applications and renewals
- Annual filings, accounting and audit coordination
- Restructuring and redomiciliation
- Liquidation and orderly wind-down
Residency & relocation
The corporate move and the family move have to be sequenced together. A residence permit that depends on a company which has not been licensed yet, or a tax residency claimed in a country where the founder has not spent a single qualifying day, is a problem waiting to surface at the worst moment. We plan the order, not just the applications.
- Investor and entrepreneur residency (UAE)
- Golden visa eligibility and application
- Employment and dependant visas
- Entrepreneur and employment passes (Singapore)
- Family relocation: spouse and children
- Tax residency requirements and the records they call for
- Tax residency certificates
- Schooling, housing and settling-in coordination
- Document legalisation, apostille and translation
- Renewals and status maintenance
Bank account preparation
Account opening is where most relocations stall, and usually for reasons that are visible in advance: an ownership chain the client cannot document, a business description that does not match the licence, a gap in the record of where the money came from. Our job is to make sure the file is complete, accurate and internally consistent before it is submitted. We are not a bank or a payment institution, we never handle the money, and the client's relationship is always directly with the institution, in the client's own name. The decision is the bank's.
- Corporate account applications (UAE, Singapore, US)
- Introductions to banks we work with, disclosed in writing
- Assembling the source-of-funds documentation the bank asks for
- Ownership and control documentation
- Payment provider applications for the client's own operating business
- Multi-currency account structure for operating needs
- Providing documents requested in a periodic compliance review
Fintech & growth marketing
A customer acquisition practice for the financial industry, built on the idea that a licence, a bank account and a product are not a business until somebody is using them. Our approach is flexible enough to support a newly launched fintech product and to digitalise an established financial service, and every lead is tracked through the sales pipeline so the result can be measured rather than asserted. Research and positioning, content and targeted campaigns, partnership and developer channels, omnichannel lead generation, CRM and pipeline tracking — on a retainer or per acquired customer.
Engagement terms
How we are paid
Annual retainer
Ongoing corporate maintenance — renewals, filings, accounting coordination, registered office — is billed annually, agreed before the first year begins.
Growth work
Marketing engagements run on a monthly retainer against an agreed scope, or are priced per qualified lead or acquired customer where the funnel is measurable end to end. Media spend is passed through at cost.
We are paid by our clients, by invoice. We do not hold or process client funds, and we do not take undisclosed commissions from banks, developers, immigration programmes or service providers. If a third party pays us for an introduction, the client is told before deciding.
Not sure which of these you need?
Most clients arrive with one question — a licence, a visa, a bank rejection — and discover the real scope during the first conversation. That conversation is free and carries no obligation.