What we do under our own licence — described precisely.

Incorporation is a week’s work; getting it right for the next decade is the actual job. Before we file anything, we settle the questions that are expensive to change later: share capital and classes, the articles the group’s lawyers will want, director residency for the management-and-control position, and whether the entity’s intended activity needs anything beyond a standard memorandum.

The registered office we provide in Limassol is a working address, not a plaque: statutory mail is opened, logged, escalated when it matters and archived when it does not. Notices from the Registrar, the Tax Department and the courts reach a person the same day they arrive.

This is the unglamorous work on which everything else depends. When a bank refreshes its file, a buyer opens diligence or the Tax Department asks where a company is really managed, the answer is read out of the registers, the minutes and the filing history. Ours agree with the Registrar’s record — because reconciling them is part of the annual routine, not a scramble before a transaction.

Minutes are drafted and signed within days of the decision they record, not reconstructed at year-end. Every entity we administer sits on a published compliance calendar: annual return, UBO confirmation, levy and audit deadlines, with responsibility for each named in advance.

A Cyprus tax residency position usually rests on where the company is managed and controlled — which means it rests on the directors. We provide directors who do the job: they attend board meetings held in Cyprus, read what they sign, question what they should, and can explain the company’s business to a bank or a tax officer without a script.

We decline appointments where we would be signing without knowledge. That costs us some mandates and protects all the others — a director who rubber-stamps is precisely what a challenge to residency, or a bank exit review, is designed to find.

The Cyprus International Trust — under the International Trusts Law, L.69(I)/1992 as amended in 2012 — remains one of the strongest succession and asset-protection instruments available in an EU jurisdiction. It is only as strong as its administration. A trust whose minutes are missing, whose distributions are undocumented or whose trustee cannot show independent decision-making is an invitation to the very challenge it was created to resist.

We act as corporate trustee and fiduciary administrator. Trustee decisions are minuted as decisions — with the reasons — not merely recorded as outcomes. Beneficiary records, letters of wishes and distribution files are maintained to the standard a court, a foreign tax authority or a future trustee would expect to inherit.

Nominee shareholding is a legitimate confidentiality and administrative tool — and it is the most misunderstood service in this industry, so we are explicit about how it works. Shares are held under a declaration of trust in the beneficial owner’s favour. The beneficial owner is identified in our due diligence file, disclosed to the UBO register as the law requires, and disclosed to any bank or counterparty entitled to ask.

What the arrangement provides is privacy from casual inspection and clean administration of shareholder formalities — not anonymity from regulators, courts or tax authorities. Anyone offering the latter is offering you a liability.

Article 4 permits a licensed ASP to open and administer bank accounts on a client’s instructions, and this is where administration earns its fee. Banks do not decline good clients out of malice; they decline files that make the analyst’s job impossible. We prepare the application the way the institution’s own compliance team needs to receive it: ownership charted to the natural person, source of funds evidenced rather than asserted, expected activity described in numbers.

After opening, we administer mandates and signatories, respond to periodic-review requests within the bank’s deadline, and keep the account file synchronised with the corporate file — so the two never tell different stories. The choice of institution itself is part of our introduced banking service.

As an obliged entity under L.188(I)/2007 we run full customer due diligence on every relationship — and we treat that obligation as a service to the client rather than a tax on them. A well-built KYC file is reusable: the same evidence that satisfies our onboarding satisfies the bank’s, the auditor’s and the next counterparty’s, which is why our clients spend less time repeating themselves than most.

Risk assessments are refreshed on a fixed cycle and on trigger events. For clients with their own obligations, we support internal compliance processes — record-keeping, screening logs, review schedules — without holding ourselves out as legal advisers.