Representative matter · Holding Structures
Trading group consolidated under a BVI–Hong Kong holding
A multi-country trading group had grown into a tangle of entities that its banks increasingly declined to read.
- The brief
- Simplify the group into a structure that banks and auditors could follow.
- Our role
- We designed a BVI holding over a Hong Kong operating company, aligned intra-group agreements and prepared the full onboarding file; registry steps were completed with a local agent.
- Outcome
- The structure passed onboarding at two banks without remediation requests.
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Holding and trading structures through Hong Kong and supporting offshore centres: ownership layers, foreign-sourced income positions, treaty access and bank onboarding.
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