Strategic analysis on global tax architecture, corporate structuring, regulatory frameworks, and cross-border operations.
A private trust company is a company a family owns to act as trustee of its own trusts, instead of an outside professional. It also creates the exposure a UK-connected family should fear: a trust is resident where its trustee is managed, so controlling the trustee from the UK builds a UK-resident trust.
Read the analysisIreland's Budget 2027 is delivered on 6 October 2026, with a tax package of around 1.5 billion euro. Most of what has been written about it is a professional-body wish list, not government policy. For a founder or non-resident with Irish interests, the decisions that matter are governed by the law already in force.
Read the analysisA family office relocating to the UAE does not choose between the DIFC and the ADGM on a licence fee. It chooses between two regimes, a dedicated family wealth centre with a net-asset threshold and a lean common-law structuring toolkit, and that choice sits above the tax it pays and the wealth it holds.
Read the analysisIncorporating an Irish company is quick. Staffing it legally is where a UK founder stops. Every Irish company must have an EEA-resident director, and since Brexit a UK-resident director no longer counts, so the real decision is how you satisfy a rule the formation adverts rarely mention.
Read the analysisRegistration is not the finish line, it is the start of a filing calendar. A new UAE company has a corporate tax registration clock measured in months, a return due whether or not any tax is payable, and one item that used to be on every provider's list and is no longer required at all.
Read the analysisA UAE licence can be issued quickly. That is not the same as having a working company. What actually sets the timeline is the document chain, the immigration steps that require you to be physically present, and the bank, which is the long pole and the one stage nobody can accelerate for you.
Read the analysisA founder relocating to the UAE usually assumes the company sponsors everyone. It does, but only up to the visa quota the facility allows, and the family's permits then live or die with the owner's. There is also a five-year self-sponsored route most owners are never told about.
Read the analysisAsk three providers what a UAE company costs and you will get three very different numbers, because they are quoting three different companies. The licence is the smallest variable. What moves the total is the facility, the number of visas, the renewal cycle, and the compliance the entity owes from its first year.
Read the analysisFor years a UK founder could sell a business and pay 10% on the gain. That rate is being withdrawn: Business Asset Disposal Relief rose to 14% in 2025 and reaches 18% in April 2026. Owners rush to complete before the deadline, and anti-forestalling rules await the contracts written to beat it. Ireland still holds 10%.
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