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Corporate & International Business

Gibraltar substance, without the theatre

Company formation, re-domiciliation, banking introduction, and the ongoing administration that keeps an international business compliant. Practical, substance-focused, and built to survive the questions an onshore tax authority will eventually ask.

What we hear from corporate clients

Three problems we hear about most

Three problems come up repeatedly — whether we are forming a new entity, taking over administration, or re-domiciling a company from another jurisdiction.

Demonstrable substance, not box-ticking

Onshore tax authorities, banks, and counterparties all want to see real Gibraltar substance — a registered office that actually operates, directors who are reachable, board meetings that take place, and documentation that survives scrutiny.

How our company-administration practice is set up →

Re-domiciling an existing company cleanly

Bringing a company into Gibraltar — or moving it out — without breaking contracts, banking relationships, or the historical accounts. Most of the work is in the sequence, not the filings themselves.

Our re-domiciliation service →

Opening and keeping a Gibraltar bank account

Banking is the single most common reason a corporate structure stalls. We make introductions, package the KYC, and stay with the application — but we will also tell you in the first conversation if a particular case is unlikely to bank here.

How our banking introduction works →

What we do for corporate clients

Services relevant to this sector

Only the services a typical international corporate engages on. The full list is on What We Do.

How we engage

A five-step engagement model

Five stages from a first conversation to a working Gibraltar entity.

01 Initial consultation
A working call with a director and our company-administration lead. We discuss the activity, the corporate group, target jurisdictions for trade, and what substance the structure will actually need. Sixty minutes, no fee.
02 KYC and structuring review
Onboarding due diligence on the principals and the group. In parallel we agree the structure — new incorporation or re-domiciliation, directors, shareholder layer, substance requirements, and banking strategy. We will say so in this stage if a case is unlikely to work.
03 Structure design and documentation
Incorporation documents or continuance filings, memorandum and articles, board composition, registered office, accounting and reporting cadence, and the supporting evidence file the bank will eventually ask for.
04 Onboarding and banking
Incorporation or re-domiciliation, beneficial-ownership and statutory filings, banking introduction, and any operational set-up — payroll, accounting software, VAT registration where relevant.
05 Ongoing administration
Registered office and director services, annual returns, board and shareholder meetings, financial statements, corporate tax filings, and the year-round administrative work that keeps the structure defensible.

Why Gibraltar — from a corporate angle

Why Gibraltar — for this sector specifically

Gibraltar's corporate regime is English company law with a Gibraltar overlay — the same Companies Act vocabulary an international counterparty already understands, applied by a small registry that returns filings inside working days. For a corporate structure that has to be explained to a bank, a counterparty, or an auditor, that familiarity has practical value.

Tax is territorial. A Gibraltar company pays Gibraltar corporate tax on income accruing in or derived from Gibraltar, and is outside the charge for genuinely foreign-source income — but only where the substance supports it. The headline rate is 12.5%, the rules are written down, and the territorial test is enforced rather than waved through. That is the regime we work inside, and the reason substance is not optional.

On the international side, Gibraltar adopted CRS, FATCA, and substance requirements voluntarily and early, and sits on the OECD white list. For a corporate group that will eventually be asked by an onshore authority where it is administered and why, those are the credentials that close the conversation.

Read more on Why Gibraltar →

Who you will work with

The team for this sector

Corporate engagements run through three roles — company administration, accounting and tax, and compliance. Names confirmed at onboarding.

Company administration

Head of Company Administration

Lead director — name to be confirmed

Accounting & tax

Head of Accounting & Tax

ACA / CTA — name to be confirmed

Compliance

Head of Compliance

GFSC-regulated — name to be confirmed

Named team members to be confirmed by the operator before launch (placeholder cards above).

Reading for corporate principals and their advisers

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Next step

Request a consultation

An hour with a director and our company-administration lead. We will tell you whether the structure as planned will work in Gibraltar — and what we would do differently.

Request a consultation