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Corporate Clients Corporate clients Who is Maitland? Maitland is a global advisory, administration and family office firm providing seamless multi- jurisdictional legal, fiduciary, investment and fund administration services to corporate, institutional and private clients. Founded in Luxembourg in 1976, the firm is privately owned and fully independent. It has 17 offices in 13 countries, over 1,400 employees and in excess of $280 billion in assets under administration. We leverage our strong values and a collaborative culture to develop and maintain trusted relationships with our clients. By combining our talent and one-firm approach, built on our best-of-breed multi-jurisdictional platforms, we provide tailored end-to-end solutions that embrace complexity and deliver simplicity. Contents • Introduction • Our global reach • Corporate services - Corporate business services - Security and agency - Capital market and structured finance services • Legal services • Key contacts maitlandgroup.com British Virgin Islands | Canada | Cayman Islands | Ireland | Isle of Man | Luxembourg Malta | Mauritius | Monaco | South Africa | United Kingdom | United States Introduction Maitland’s reputation in services to corporate clients extends Our teams back over 40 years to 1976 when the firm was founded in Luxembourg to provide innovative solutions to complex cross- Maitland’s corporate client teams comprise some 80 people, border challenges faced by major corporations. Over the years including multi-jurisdictional lawyers, chartered accountants, our legal experts have advised on some of the world’s leading corporate secretaries and administrators, located in our United corporate activity, involving both listed and unlisted companies. Kingdom, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, South African and Caribbean offices. Our internal culture of collaboration and At an early stage we added corporate administration and teamwork across practice groups and jurisdictions ensures an company secretarial work to our corporate service offering. We integrated service seamlessly executed to all Maitland clients. provide the entire suite of company secretarial together with general financial services and trust administration. We also help our clients to establish, domicile, administer and manage various international corporate structures and operating companies. Our corporate clients comprise banks, multinationals, listed and non-listed entities, investment holding companies, We specialise in providing a comprehensive range of professional securitisation structures, investment funds, management and management and administration services to special purpose vehicles operating companies, employee share scheme trusts, black (SPVs) and other structured finance entities, including securitisation economic empowerment trusts, a wide range of structured and syndicated funding structures, management companies, lending SPVs as well as various referring law firms. various types of trusts, hedge funds and private equity partnerships that use trust, investment holding, company or partnership SPVs. These administration services include accounting, tax and investor reporting services, as well as agency roles. We provide professional independent, non-executive directors and corporate trustees to the above entities as a core service. As a firm, Maitland provides services to corporate, institutional and private clients. The diagram below shows our client types, with a focus on our services to corporate clients. Institutional Corporate Private clients clients clients Corporate Legal services services Corporate business Security & Capital markets & Corporate Corporate services agency structured finance commercial tax While the services listed above relate to Maitland’s corporate clients, note that many of them also extend to our institutional and private clients. For example, we provide accounting, taxation and corporate secretarial work for investment funds and company administration for entities forming part of private client structures. 2 Our global reach Maitland is jurisdiction-agnostic The map below shows Maitland’s primary jurisdictional centres for corporate services. We are “jurisdiction-agnostic” when it comes to our clients’ needs. Wherever you are based and wherever you require services, we will provide an integrated solution that best suits your needs. With its world leading legal system and Due to its stability as well as its innovative and In Malta the comprehensive competitive corporate tax rates, not to mention international orientation, the Luxembourg financial legislative and regulatory framework being one of the world’s leading financial centre is an ideal and widely known hub for global offers a range of corporate centres, the UK is an attractive choice for corporate, institutional and private investors. structures, which includes trusts, international investment holding structures. Luxembourg is the second largest fund centre collective investment schemes, Maitland offers a range of solutions to clients in the world. Maitland has been operating in protected ManCo and securitisation wishing to establish various types of structures Luxembourg for 40 years, and has competency cell companies, the redomiciliation in the UK or doing business in the UK. We and experience in all core service areas. In of companies into and out of Malta, provide domiciliation services, directorship particular, we have expertise and experience in EU passporting under AIFMD, and an services, security trustee, agency services and servicing the corporate administrative needs of extensive network of double taxation fund administration services. A full range of special purpose vehicles. We also provide a turnkey treaties. The favourable tax regime corporate legal and tax services are provided solution to enable Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) offers low effective tax rates to non- by our UK based lawyers who have a wealth of structures to be launched adopting pre-existing resident persons and no capital gains experience advising on corporate M&A, venture fund and fund manager architecture, ensuring a or withholding taxes are levied. capital and financial market transactions. quick and cost effective route to market. The British Virgin Islands is well known In addition to a core domiciliation offering, In Mauritius, the Global Business for the success of the popular BVI Maitland is the pre-eminent provider of Companies (GBC) (Category 1 and Business Company which benefits fiduciary administration and domiciliation Category 2) offer interesting features from cutting-edge offshore company services to the market in South Africa. for all corporate structures including legislation. Our BVI office has been Maitland provides outsourced administration, collective investment schemes, protected in business for over 30 years and professional directorship and trusteeship cell companies and investment holding specialises in the incorporation and services, corporate secretarial and companies. The Global Business Category administration of BVI entities which are administration, accounting and taxation 1 benefits from more than 40 tax treaties widely used by numerous corporate offerings to a wide range of structures, with currently in force between Mauritius and structures including funds, mining deep expertise and experience stretching back other jurisdictions, including at least 20 companies, group holding companies to the first securitisation transaction closed with the African continent. Mauritius also and the holding of intellectual property. in South Africa in 2001. This experience allows for redomiciliation of companies With experienced corporate lawyers enables us to add real value at all stages of into and out of its jurisdiction. The GBC on our staff, we are alive to the critical the transaction life-cycle, and across a range 2 is a tax-exempt company which time-sensitive nature of corporate of asset classes. Maitland also offers backup can be used for a variety of purposes deals, and well placed to meet the servicing to various clients. including investment and property holding, demands of our international corporate consultancy and trading. The GBC 2 clients and their teams of advisers. cannot access tax treaty benefits. 3 Corporate services Corporate business services Company secretarial and administration Maitland offers the entire suite of company formation, Maitland’s corporate business services allow operating companies domiciliation and secretarial services, as well as a wide range of to contract out business processes to our team of experts, general administration services, including: such as company secretarial, accounting, taxation and payroll processing, as well as operational and non-core functions. • Company administration and maintenance to ensure good corporate standing, Call it global sourcing, smart sourcing, managed services or global business services, companies globally from all economic • Good corporate governance reviews and implementation, sectors are increasingly accessing and appreciating the value-add • Acting as company secretary and fulfilling the legally related that corporate business services can offer them. required roles, Advantages • Preparation of AGM, board and sub-committee meeting Focus Enables clients to focus on core operations and packs, processes • Minute-taking, preparation and distribution, Specialist Provides access to our specialist skills skills • Providing a registered address and acting as process agent, Savings Potential cost savings in systems and human • Formation
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