Structure Your
International Business
Companies, business owners, and executives: a coordinated approach to cross-border decisions.
Establishing operations, forming a holding company, reorganizing a corporate group, or planning an international relocation: LEGALYS helps you design and implement your international structure.
From Mauritius, we support your projects across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United Arab Emirates, working with local counsel and advisors as needed.
Structure Your Entities and Cross-Border Transactions
Where should you establish operations? How should you hold your subsidiaries, finance their growth, and arrange distributions?
We assess potential structures, intercompany transactions, and eligibility for tax treaty benefits. Our analysis considers the location of your teams, effective management, economic substance, and compliance obligations in each jurisdiction.
The objective: a tax-efficient, legally sound structure aligned with how your business actually operates.
Integrate Your Personal Tax Position
Your business and your residence may be in different countries. We align your business structure with your personal tax position, addressing tax residency, exit taxes, compensation, dividends, and disposals of equity interests.
Your relocation, wealth transfer, and succession plans are considered from the outset.
Selected Examples of Cross-Border Structuring
Does your next move take you across borders?
Explore a few ways we can help. These examples illustrate our approach; they do not limit the scope of our work.
Have a different path in mind? Let’s talk.
France – Mauritius
Your next chapter is in Mauritius.
Your business still has roots in France.
Explore This Example
You have built your business in France and are ready for a new chapter in Mauritius. You want a clear understanding of what the move means for your company, your income, and your family.
Should you establish a company in Mauritius, reorganize your French operations, or rethink how you pay yourself? We help you compare the options and anticipate questions about tax residency, dividends, and exit taxes.
Starting with your circumstances, LEGALYS works with you to plan the next steps and coordinate the professionals you need. You understand which decisions to make, in what order, and with what implications as you prepare for your move and your business’s future.
France – Thailand – Hong Kong
Make Thailand your home, grow your business, and stay connected to your clients in France.
Explore This Example
Your business gives you the flexibility to work internationally, and you are considering a move to Thailand. Your clients or team remain in France, and you are wondering whether a Hong Kong company would make sense.
How should you invoice clients, pay yourself, and continue running the business? Where will you need to file returns and pay taxes? We start with how you actually work and explore the answers with the relevant local advisors.
LEGALYS helps you choose arrangements that support both your personal plans and your business growth. We clarify each company’s role, the obligations to anticipate, and the steps to take so you can move forward with a clear picture.
Mauritius – South Africa
Grow your investments and plan what you want to pass on.
Explore This Example
You invest in South Africa and are considering how to hold, finance, or pass on your assets. Mauritius may be one of the options worth exploring, taking into account where you live and your family circumstances.
Do you want to retain control over certain decisions, arrange income payments, or plan for your loved ones? We help turn those goals into practical choices. If a trust is being considered, we explain how it works, who holds which powers, and its implications in the relevant countries.
LEGALYS brings together the advisors and professional partners you need. Together, we compare the options and plan implementation, taking account of reporting obligations and restrictions on transferring funds.
The Netherlands and Luxembourg
Your business is evolving.
Should your holding company evolve too?
Explore This Example
You are preparing for an acquisition, a new investor, a business sale, or a transfer to the next generation. You already own a holding company in the Netherlands or Luxembourg, or you are considering setting one up.
Does that structure still meet your needs? How should you arrange ownership, financing, and distributions given where you live? We help you work through the options, including whether a simpler structure could serve you better.
Working with the relevant local counsel, LEGALYS assesses the holding company’s purpose, costs, operating requirements, and tax implications. You have a clear comparison to help you choose arrangements suited to your business’s next stage and your personal plans.
These examples illustrate our approach; they do not limit the scope of our work.
From Analysis
to Implementation
LEGALYS compares the options, identifies their requirements and risks, and coordinates the legal, tax, and financial professionals needed for implementation.
LEGALYS, a French law firm, is registered in Mauritius as a Foreign Law Firm. Advice on Mauritian law is provided by appropriately qualified partner barristers and attorneys.
