about us
There are numerous transactions that involve a number of competing, and sometimes conflicting, considerations that need to be balanced: exchange control law, finance, pricing, exchange control administration, financial modelling, corporate finance, tax law, corporate law and tax administration.
Clients often receive either conflicting or incomplete advice from advisory firms specialising in only a subset of these key disciplines.
We have solved this by assembling a holistic, integrated team that is able to simultaneously incorporate client requirements, constraints and opportunities presented by different frameworks. We construct transactions that are financially efficient, tax efficient, legally robust, exchange control compliant, and that meet our clients’ commercial objectives.
Our deep practical experience – gained over a number of decades working with large listed corporates, banks, midsize businesses, family offices, institutional investors, mining houses and international estate planning entities – is brought to bear when working with client structures, providing optimal solutions that are pragmatic, balanced and conservative.
The business was founded over 10 years ago when Andrew Wellsted and Richard Cohen commenced providing joint advisory services to clients who needed input on tax, finance, accounting and law as a single integrated solution.
It became immediately evident that the siloed approach to problem-solving was detrimental to what, in reality, were multi faceted transactions that were frequently approached with sub optimal, one-dimensional solutions.
Andrew and Richard commenced jointly implementing client-focused solutions as a single, integrated service that resolved this shortcoming.