Sovereign Group
Sovereign offers a range of high value advisory and support services to assist companies of all sizes to understand their market opportunities, develop actionable market strategies and establish business operations successfully in foreign markets.
Sovereign equips its clients with the knowledge and understanding of new countries that is essential to successful market entry and growth initiatives, as well as providing the legal structures, administrative support and fiscal arrangements to maximise the opportunities and achieve long-term sustainability.
Sovereign offers a range of high value advisory and support services to assist companies of all sizes to understand their market opportunities, develop actionable market strategies and establish business operations successfully in foreign markets.
Sovereign equips its clients with the knowledge and understanding of new countries that is essential to successful market entry and growth initiatives, as well as providing the legal structures, administrative support and fiscal arrangements to maximise the opportunities and achieve long-term sustainability.
Sovereign’s consultants combine first-class research and advisory experience with extensive local market knowledge and cross-border expertise. We assist clients to assess the market size and growth potential, the regulatory and competitive environment, as well as the tax, legal and employment factors that could be critical to success.
Each project is customised to your specific needs and objectives – there are no pre-packaged solutions – to help you develop optimal strategies for market entry and growth.
Sovereign’s core business is setting up and managing companies, trusts, pensions, insurance and other structures to meet the specific personal or business needs of our clients. Typically these needs would include foreign market entry, tax planning, wealth protection, property ownership and facilitating cross border business.
Corporate Services
Sovereign offers a highly professional company formation and administration service from a broad range of international financial centres spanning Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
In addition to the formation and registration of companies worldwide, we provide specialist expertise in the administration of trading companies, holding companies, private or family investment companies, hybrid structures, international investment funds, special purpose vehicles, limited liability partnerships and international partnerships. The companies we manage are used for many purposes – active trading, group holdings, investments, intellectual property rights, licensing or royalty structures, and real estate, ship and aircraft ownership.
Our services embrace statutory corporate secretarial, professional directorships, nominee shareholding or domiciliary services. A range of ancillary support services is also available on request, which includes, but is not limited to provision of dedicated telephone lines, office and personnel assistance, designated staff members (temporary or permanent), assistance with office relocation, introduction to real estate agents, government agencies and other third parties. Sovereign is able to assist with bank account applications and provide introductions to a number of banks worldwide with which we have long-term relationships.
Sovereign holds appropriate financial services licences wherever these are required and places a high degree of importance on maintaining full compliance with any local or international regulatory requirements.
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Fund Services
Set Up a Business & Company, Tax Planning, Trust Services
Sovereign’s core business is setting up and managing companies, trusts and other structures to meet the specific personal or business needs of our clients. Typically these needs would include tax planning, wealth protection, foreign property ownership and facilitating cross-border business.We currently manage over 7,000 structures for a wide
variety of clients worldwide. We advise governments, publicly quoted companies and professional law and accountancy firms but the majority of our clients are individuals, expatriates, entrepreneurs, freelance consultants, private investors, or wealthy persons and their families.
We have also developed a wide range of supporting services embracing asset management, corporate finance and fund raising, specialist tax advice, ship and yacht registration, credit cards, as well as trademark and intellectual property registration and protection.The first Sovereign office opened in Gibraltar in 1987 and we now have offices or agents in all the major international finance centres. Not all the jurisdictions in which we operate require or allow licences but wherever possible we have applied for, and been granted, the appropriate authorisation.
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Pensions & Retirement
Sovereign is a market leader in the provision of pensions with a broad proposition that includes: Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs); Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS); Qualifying Non-UK Pension Schemes (QNUPS); International Pension Plans (IPPs); and Corporate Pension Plans.
Retirement can be for a long period of time and the decisions you take now will affect you, and your family,for the rest of your lives. These decisions are not easy and, for the internationally mobile individual, retirement planning can be further complicated by cross border tax considerations. Sovereign offers retirement solutions from a number of jurisdictions allowing a “best fit” approach and optimal tax planning.
Sovereign also offers its professional introducers a unique International Financial Adviser Support (‘IFAS’) facility. Conducted via an online web-based portal, IFAS provides comprehensive ‘live’ technical support on any pension related matter, as well as pension critical yield reports, sales quotations and calculators.
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Personal Wealth
Sovereign’s personal wealth services will assist you to preserve, enjoy and pass on the rewards of success. Whether your primary concerns are asset ownership, tax, retirement or succession planning, we can help you implement the most efficient and effective means to realise your wealth management objectives.
Sovereign will spend time and effort to understand fully your individual circumstances and requirements before devising and implementing fully functional and compliant wealth management strategies and structures for you and your family. These may include:
- Estate planning, including the use of trusts, companies and other vehicles to hold and distribute assets;
- Tax-efficient investments;
- Pension planning, including personal pensions and pension transfers;
- Inheritance planning;
- Portfolio bonds or wrappers to build up retirement savings;
- Immigration and relocation planning.
The Sovereign Group has assets under administration in excess of US$5 billion and is fully independent, which means that we are not tied to any provider of financial products
and deliver a truly independent, impartial and flexible service.
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Additional Services
What We Can Do For You – Additional Services
As well as providing Corporate and Tax Planning and Trust Services, we have a range of further services which you may find useful. Please select from the column for further information.
- Foundations
- Sovereign Asset Management
- Sovereign Insurance Services
- The Sovereign MasterCard
- Trademark & Intellectual Property Services
- Bank Introductions, Accounting and Auditing
- Remote Gaming
- International Tax Planning
- Purchase a Company
- Sovereign Companies