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Legal Expertise
Our team provides an extensive range of corporate services, catering for a wide variety of businesses from private individuals & small companies in the UK, to multi-national corporate businesses with global ambitions.
Our experts and dedicated offices provide an extensive range of corporate services, catering for a wide variety of businesses from private individuals & small companies to multi-national corporate businesses with global ambitions.
Setting up an international business structure involves a range of considerations and requirements to ensure legal compliance, tax efficiency, and operational effectiveness. Here are some key components and considerations for establishing an international business structure:
1. Business Plan: Begin with a comprehensive business plan that outlines your international expansion strategy, including market analysis, financial projections, and growth objectives.
2. Legal Structure: Choose an appropriate legal structure for your international operations. Common options include subsidiaries, joint ventures, branch offices, or representative offices. The choice depends on factors such as liability protection, tax implications, and regulatory requirements.
3. Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to identify the target country or countries, assess competition, understand local regulations, and evaluate market demand.
4. Registration and Licensing: Register your business in the host country and obtain the necessary licenses and permits. Comply with local and international regulations, including intellectual property, import/export, and industry-specific requirements.
5. Taxation: Understand the tax implications of your international operations. Consider factors such as corporate income tax, value-added tax (VAT), customs duties, transfer pricing, and withholding taxes. Seek advice from tax professionals to optimize your tax structure.
6. Legal Compliance: Ensure compliance with local labour laws, employment regulations, and immigration requirements. Develop employment contracts that adhere to local labour standards.
7. Intellectual Property: Protect your intellectual property (IP) rights in international markets. This may involve trademark registration, patents, and copyrights.
8. Banking and Finance: Set up international banking relationships to facilitate cross-border transactions. Consider currency exchange, foreign exchange risk management, and banking services tailored to international business.
9. Supply Chain Management: Establish efficient supply chain and logistics processes to manage the movement of goods across borders. This includes customs clearance, transportation, and warehousing.
10. Contractual Agreements: Draft and negotiate contracts with international partners, customers, suppliers, and distributors. Contracts should address payment terms, dispute resolution, and jurisdiction.
11. Compliance with Export Controls: Understand and comply with export control regulations, especially if your business involves the export of controlled goods, technology, or services.
12. Human Resources: Develop an international HR strategy that addresses recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, and compliance with labour laws in multiple jurisdictions.
13. Risk Management: Assess and manage various risks, including political, economic, legal, and operational risks that can affect your international business.
14. Cultural Sensitivity: Be culturally sensitive and adapt your business practices to local customs, languages, and business etiquette.
15. Market Entry Strategy: Choose an appropriate market entry strategy, whether it’s direct investment, partnerships, franchising, or licensing.
16. Legal and Financial Advisors: Seek guidance from legal and financial advisors with expertise in international business. They can help navigate complex regulatory and legal requirements.
17. Compliance with Trade Agreements: If applicable, ensure compliance with trade agreements or treaties that may affect your international trade activities.
18. Insurance: Assess your insurance needs for international operations, including coverage for business interruption, liability, and political risk.
19. Ethical and CSR Considerations: Consider ethical and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices that align with international standards and expectations.
20. Local Representation: Depending on your international business activities, consider having a local representative or a trusted partner to navigate local nuances and build relationships. Establishing an international business structure requires careful planning, local expertise, and a deep understanding of the specific markets in which you operate.
We operate out of some of the most respected and trusted jurisdictions in the world and provide an unrivalled service in respect of speed, efficiency and cost. Our broad range of business services encompassing corporate law, fiduciary and accountancy delivers tailor-made solutions for every aspect of international business structure
Recommended Corporate Structure
Our team provides an extensive range of corporate services, catering for a wide variety of businesses from private individuals & small companies in the UK, to multi-national corporate businesses with global ambitions.
Our experts and dedicated offices provide an extensive range of corporate services, catering for a wide variety of businesses from private individuals & small companies to multi-national corporate businesses with global ambitions.
Setting up an international business structure involves a range of considerations and requirements to ensure legal compliance, tax efficiency, and operational effectiveness. Here are some key components and considerations for establishing an international business structure:
1. Business Plan: Begin with a comprehensive business plan that outlines your international expansion strategy, including market analysis, financial projections, and growth objectives.
2. Legal Structure: Choose an appropriate legal structure for your international operations. Common options include subsidiaries, joint ventures, branch offices, or representative offices. The choice depends on factors such as liability protection, tax implications, and regulatory requirements.
3. Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to identify the target country or countries, assess competition, understand local regulations, and evaluate market demand.
4. Registration and Licensing: Register your business in the host country and obtain the necessary licenses and permits. Comply with local and international regulations, including intellectual property, import/export, and industry-specific requirements.
5. Taxation: Understand the tax implications of your international operations. Consider factors such as corporate income tax, value-added tax (VAT), customs duties, transfer pricing, and withholding taxes. Seek advice from tax professionals to optimize your tax structure.
6. Legal Compliance: Ensure compliance with local labour laws, employment regulations, and immigration requirements. Develop employment contracts that adhere to local labour standards.
7. Intellectual Property: Protect your intellectual property (IP) rights in international markets. This may involve trademark registration, patents, and copyrights.
8. Banking and Finance: Set up international banking relationships to facilitate cross-border transactions. Consider currency exchange, foreign exchange risk management, and banking services tailored to international business.
9. Supply Chain Management: Establish efficient supply chain and logistics processes to manage the movement of goods across borders. This includes customs clearance, transportation, and warehousing.
10. Contractual Agreements: Draft and negotiate contracts with international partners, customers, suppliers, and distributors. Contracts should address payment terms, dispute resolution, and jurisdiction.
11. Compliance with Export Controls: Understand and comply with export control regulations, especially if your business involves the export of controlled goods, technology, or services.
12. Human Resources: Develop an international HR strategy that addresses recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, and compliance with labour laws in multiple jurisdictions.
13. Risk Management: Assess and manage various risks, including political, economic, legal, and operational risks that can affect your international business.
14. Cultural Sensitivity: Be culturally sensitive and adapt your business practices to local customs, languages, and business etiquette.
15. Market Entry Strategy: Choose an appropriate market entry strategy, whether it’s direct investment, partnerships, franchising, or licensing.
16. Legal and Financial Advisors: Seek guidance from legal and financial advisors with expertise in international business. They can help navigate complex regulatory and legal requirements.
17. Compliance with Trade Agreements: If applicable, ensure compliance with trade agreements or treaties that may affect your international trade activities.
18. Insurance: Assess your insurance needs for international operations, including coverage for business interruption, liability, and political risk.
19. Ethical and CSR Considerations: Consider ethical and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices that align with international standards and expectations.
20. Local Representation: Depending on your international business activities, consider having a local representative or a trusted partner to navigate local nuances and build relationships. Establishing an international business structure requires careful planning, local expertise, and a deep understanding of the specific markets in which you operate.
We operate out of some of the most respected and trusted jurisdictions in the world and provide an unrivalled service in respect of speed, efficiency and cost. Our broad range of business services encompassing corporate law, fiduciary and accountancy delivers tailor-made solutions for every aspect of international business structure
Chargeback Retrieval Services
It is a cost of doing business in the online gaming sector that some customers will seek to dispute the transactions that they have placed with you. So called friendly fraud is increasingly on the rise, as are the charges associated which chargebacks. Adopting a commercial approach to managing those disputes is an important part of a merchant’s business, get it wrong and you might find that you have excessive chargebacks leading to Scheme fines, as well as losing revenue. Managing these processes requires time, expertise and resource. We provide access to a one of the world’s leading international dispute handling services, taking away the administrative burden from you, allowing you to focus on your business development.
The service addresses two issues. We are integrated with most if not all acquiring banks. We typically recommend starting with chargeback prevention using alerting with tools such as (Ethoca, Verifi CDRN, RDR etc.) to intercept potential chargebacks. Its quick and easy, you can be up and running within 48 hours. Our rates are the most competitive on the market, based on bulk buying discounts from the provider.
If a charge back still gets raised – we can help defend this on your behalf. Unlike most chargeback handling providers, if we don’t win any of your chargebacks you pay nothing using our unique ‘no win no fee’ approach.
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Compliance
Our teams have extensive experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Client Lifecycle Management (CLM), Know Your Customer (KYC) and other financial crime requirements.
Helping firms to achieve and maintain FC Compliance
As global FC compliance experts, we have an extensive track record of helping firms to successfully achieve and maintain FC compliance by focusing on providing consulting services across the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) landscape with the distinct objective of reducing the short-and long-term costs linked to compliance.
Financial Crime Compliance
With ever changing legislation, all firms should be vigilant in identifying and protecting themselves against potential money laundering activities.
Client Lifecycle Management
We have the necessary skills and experience to assist your firm to compile, review and optimise FC controls across the entire client lifecycle management (CLM) process.
Regulatory Permissions Support
We assist firms to obtain the required regulatory permissions to carry on regulated activities, we can also offer additional support in a regulated market.
Smart Regulatory Technology Choices
We assist firms in selecting the right Regulatory Technology (RegTech) that is aligned with their bespoke operational nuances because we know first-hand that, over time, firms develop both generic and unique operating characteristics.
Cyber Security
Our professional services division provides a team of world-class professionals and thought leaders to serve as your global resource and knowledge bank, capable of providing you with complete and thorough business solutions.
Our Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Professional Services practice channels include Software Quality Assurance & Testing; Governance, Risk, & Compliance; Core Systems Modernisation; and Lottery & Gaming. Our team strives to provide services that create valuable solutions for our customers through leadership and collaboration.
Our professionals deliver deep content expertise using knowledge-based approaches and by collaborating with our clients to create and deliver solutions to their most complex business problems. We can improve the quality of your software systems, manage risk, get products to market quicker, and even reduce your overall cost of project implementation.
We are focused on providing you with increased business performance by leveraging our technological expertise, business knowledge, process quality, and people. Our dedicated practices around each of our service offerings enable us to continuously improve processes, retain project learning, and expand knowledge repositories to deliver consistent value allowing you to drive your bottom line.