QuickStart: to Simplicity

Imagine how much time, money and resource you could save if the numerous suppliers helping your back office across the globe were swapped for just one trusted partner who can help keep you compliant and as efficient and agile as possible. Talk to the experts in the USA

tmf-group.com Operating across multiple borders can not only be a What makes us different? risk, but also an expensive drain on vital resources. TMF Group is the global expert that understands local needs. Time, money and people get spent on doing things that are “non-core” - things like local HR admin, accounting, tax, and legal secretarial work - which means they’re not focusing on KNOWLEDGE: Based in-country, our growing your business. The time is ripe for a conversation around sourcing strategy. independent experts understand the local market and all its associated legal, financial QuickStart: to Simplicity leverages TMF Group’s 5,500+ experts - located in more than and regulatory compliance requirements. 80 countries - as well as our systems and local knowledge to help you reduce unnecessary cost. We also help to increase visibility and control over operations globally by providing a FLEXIBILITY: We can offer an individual and single point of contact, thereby allowing you to focus on your core purpose: producing and tailored service that is scalable in line with selling your products and services. business needs and is invoiced in whatever currency or location the client prefers. By taking away the burden of the back office and centralizing it through one global CONTROL: Through our worldwide network provider we can help, very clearly, decrease cost and increase efficiency. of wholly-owned offices, we can offer We can help you manage the things that cost people, time global reporting and one single point of and money in your company... contact to businesses operating across multiple regions. SPEED: Our local presence allows businesses to take an agile approach and enter new markets more quickly than their competition. We help sort and We can help RANGE: We are the only global organization maintain your manage the to offer a complete suite of complementary legal set-up and address you business solutions. structuring work from

We help keep We handle your We help your you compliant accounting staff get paid on with local and tax time according regulations requirements to local rules

 International incorporation and structuring: We manage the legal set-up and structuring of new or existing operations.  Office premises: Whether you need registered addresses, rented offices or assistance managing your own premises, we can help with both your current and future needs.  Corporate secretarial services: We help you stay compliant, manage your risk and stay on the right side of regulators and filing requirements.

 Accounting and tax: We take care of local tax registration, bookkeeping, management reporting, consolidation reporting and statutory accounts and reporting to relevant local and international standards. [email protected]  HR and payroll: We help you to hire the right people, apply and implement international policies in employment contracts and handbooks, and pay your staff on time in compliance with local law. tmf-group.com You can source help in different ways… Who are our clients? The ways to tackle local legal, accounting, tax, and HR and payroll issues vary almost TMF Group serves clients of all sizes and as much as types of companies. From doing things in-house, to using numerous local from all sectors; everyone from a small suppliers to manage services completely or partially, how you source back-office functions start-up to a large multinational. We is crucial to growth. work with more than 40% of current S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies. TMF Group is a partner which can both coordinate centrally – that is, one firm operating across multiple jurisdictions - and deliver locally through our wholly-owned network of offices on the ground, in-country. Benefits include increased focus and cost control for your organization as well as increased visibility and control over operations globally through one point of contact; SLAs help to ensure quality of output and alignment with your central way of doing things. Additionally, when you look for revenue growth in new markets, speed can be increased from anywhere between 25 and 90 days (depending on which country you’re looking at) simply due to working with an experienced provider with knowledge of the local regulations, procedures, language and culture. That local knowledge also means companies can benefit from our supplier’s relationships on the ground, helping to avoid fines, penalties and the reputation damage of not complying with the local rules.

tmf-group.com Meet our USA Managing Director Our offices in the USA TMF USA Inc. Jason Gerlis, based in our Miami office, is the Managing Director of TMF Group USA. The Miami office delivers global business services to all 50 states in the USA Chicago covering accounting, tax, HR and payroll, incorporations and entity management. 1 N. Franklin Street, Suite 600, Jason is an experienced manager, with over 10 years in professional services and Chicago, IL 60610 business process optimization, and is also an accredited black belt practitioner in T. +312 280 0330 Lean Six Sigma, the process improvement methodology. Prior to joining TMF Group Jason lead an Operations Development team at Miami Tesco, the third biggest global retailer, and worked at Deloitte & Touche as a 1221 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1200 Management Consultant. His experience includes process improvement, large Miami, FL 33131 scale IT development and off-shoring shared services. T. +1 305 377 1200 Since joining TMF Group in 2013, Jason has worked closely with the Global Executive team providing strategic guidance on operational priorities and taking a leading role New York in delivering the Global Target Operating model, which standardizes and improves LordSPV our operations. In late 2014 he took over management of the Miami office and our 48 Wall Street, 27th floor, USA based delivery. New York, NY 10005 T. +1 212 346 9000 Get in touch with Jason to discuss how to grow your USA business San Francisco 555 California Street, Suite 4925, [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94104 T. +415 659 1826

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