Corporate Governance and Asset Control
Managing companies in isolation multiplies your risks and your tax bill. Without a holding company structure, the profit generated in an operating company is trapped, and moving it to another investment means unnecessary taxation, slowing down the expansion of your group.
We design the hierarchical architecture that connects your companies. Centralise treasury in a parent company to reinvest gross funds (without intermediate taxation), segregate your valuable assets from commercial risk and facilitate an orderly future sale or succession.
One Matrix for each Strategic Objective
A Family Holding Company and an Investment Vehicle require opposite architectures. We analyse your assets (Real Estate, IP, Shares) to design a matrix that shields the assets, facilitates gross reinvestment and ensures a future sale or succession.
Frictionless Capital Flows
Upload the profits to the Parent without taxation (applying the Participation Exemption) and avoid double taxation.
Centralise liquidity. Use the surplus of one subsidiary to finance another without going through external banks.
The Corporate Firewall
Our Holding structure acts as a dam: it isolates commercial risk in the subsidiary, keeping its real estate, investments and intellectual property safe and untouchable in the parent company.
Steps to Incorporate your Global Holding
Audit
We analyse the tax residency of the partners and the actual valuation of the operating companies to detect latent risks before moving a single asset.
Blueprint design
We mapped out the fiscal architecture. We defined the jurisdiction of the parent company, drafted the articles of association and planned the Partner Agreements to shield control.
Swap Operation
We executed the Securities Exchange (or non-cash contribution) to transfer the shares to the Holding Company under the tax neutrality regime.
Global Consolidation
Start-up. We activated the bank accounts of the parent company, implemented the economic substance (management and administration) and unified the group's treasury.
Answers to your Global Structure
We know that corporate engineering creates uncertainty. Here we resolve critical questions about requirements, legal certainty and capital thresholds so you can make decisions based on data, not assumptions.
When does it pay to set up a Holding Company?
When you have surplus cash (>€100k) to reinvest, own real estate or plan to sell a company (Exit). Without Holding, you will lose between 25% and 30% in tax every time you move capital or collect dividends.
Where to domicile the parent company?
There is no single answer. It depends on your tax residence and where your subsidiaries operate. We look for jurisdictions with a network of Double Tax Treaties (such as the UK, Estonia or Delaware) to avoid withholding taxes.
Is it safe to apply the tax exemption?
Fully, it is an economic right (EU Parent-Subsidiary Directive). To protect it, we endow the Holding Company with real economic substance (management and resources), preventing the tax authorities from considering it a shell company.
Does it complicate management to have a Group?
On the contrary, it puts the finances in order. Although they are different companies, we implement a Consolidated VisionYou will be able to offset losses from one subsidiary against profits from another and move cash internally without bank bureaucracy.