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If you need practical legal and compliance support for cross-border operations, please get in touch with a brief overview of your business model, the jurisdictions involved, and your key counterparties—such as banks, EMIs, PSPs, or other partners. Based on that information, a proposed scope of work and recommended next steps can be provided.
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Before you write
Most enquiries we receive are a single line: "I need a Cyprus company" or "I need an EMI account". Both are answerable, but neither is a question yet. The useful version of the same message tells us what the business actually does, where the money comes from and goes, who owns it, and what has already been tried. That turns a first exchange into a first opinion instead of a round of clarifying questions.
Enquiries are read by a person who can answer them, not routed through a call centre or a junior filter. If your matter is not something we should take on — wrong jurisdiction, wrong risk profile, or something better handled by a firm holding a licence we do not — you will be told that directly rather than sold a scoping exercise.
Nothing you send is shared outside the people who need it to answer you. If the matter proceeds, disclosure obligations that genuinely apply — beneficial-ownership registers, bank onboarding, exchange of information — are mapped for you in advance, on your specific facts.
Practical details
What to include in a first message
You do not need all of this to write to us. But the more of it you can give, the faster the first answer becomes a real answer.
What the business actually does
Not the SIC code — the activity. Who pays you, for what, and through which channel. A payments intermediary, an iGaming supplier and a SaaS licensor can share a legal form and still need three entirely different structures.
Where the counterparties and money sit
Countries of customers, suppliers, and settlement. This drives jurisdiction choice, banking feasibility, VAT and withholding-tax analysis more than almost anything else you can tell us.
Who owns and controls it
Ultimate beneficial owners, their nationalities and tax residencies, and any existing entities in the chain. Ownership above 25 percent is what triggers beneficial-ownership registration in Cyprus, so it shapes the answer immediately.
What already exists
Registered companies, open or closed accounts, licences applied for or refused, audits filed or overdue. Refusals in particular are useful — a rejected EMI application tells us more about the file than a successful one.
What you are trying to achieve
A licence, a bankable structure, a lower effective rate, a relocation, an exit, a clean audit, or simply making an existing structure defensible. The objective determines which constraints we optimise and which we merely satisfy.
Your timeline and any hard deadlines
A regulator filing window, a transaction, a bank review date or a tax year end changes the sequence of work. Registrars, banks and regulators set most timelines; knowing your constraint early lets us plan around theirs.
What happens after you write
There is no automated funnel here. The sequence below is what an enquiry actually goes through.
Reading and a first view
Your message is read by someone who can assess it. You get back either a first view on feasibility or a short, specific list of the facts still missing — not a generic brochure and not a request to book a call before anything has been said.
A conversation about your facts
A call or written exchange focused on the structure, the constraints and the realistic options, including the ones you may not want to hear. This stage is where most bad structures are prevented, and it is deliberately done before any engagement is proposed.
A written scope and a price
If there is a mandate, you receive what is in scope, what is out of scope, what depends on third parties we do not control, the expected sequence, and the cost. Government fees, licensed-provider fees and audit fees are identified separately from ours.
Execution with one point of accountability
One senior person holds the whole picture and coordinates registrars, banks, licensed fiduciaries, auditors and local counsel behind that point. You are not handed a list of contacts to chase yourself.
Reasons people write to us
A non-exhaustive list of what actually arrives in the inbox, so you can see whether your matter fits.
- Choosing between Cyprus and another jurisdiction for a new holding or operating company
- An EMI or bank has asked questions the existing corporate file cannot answer
- Preparing an application for a payments, e-money, crypto-asset or iGaming licence
- Re-testing a structure built before the Cyprus 2026 tax reform, which raised corporate income tax from 12.5 to 15 percent
- Establishing genuine substance in Cyprus after a challenge to management and control
- Planning relocation and tax residency, including the 60-day rule and the non-domicile position
- Beneficial-ownership register filings, corrections, or a penalty exposure that has already started accruing
- A second opinion on advice received elsewhere, before acting on it
Before you ask
Can I write in Russian or Ukrainian?
Yes. English, Russian and Ukrainian are all working languages, including drafting, correspondence with banks and regulators, and review of documents produced by others. Write in whichever you are most precise in — precision matters more here than the choice of language.
Do you charge for the first conversation?
The first exchange establishing whether we can help and what the shape of the work is does not carry a fee. Substantive advice on your specific facts does, and you will be told which side of that line a conversation has moved to before it happens rather than afterwards.
How do you price work?
Structuring and licensing mandates are normally quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope, with third-party costs — government fees, licensed-provider fees, audit fees — identified separately. Open-ended hourly arrangements are used only where the shape of the work genuinely cannot be defined in advance, and we say so when that is the case.
Will you sign an NDA before I explain the matter?
Yes, if you want one in place first. In practice most first conversations can be held at a level of generality that makes it unnecessary, and confidentiality applies to what you tell us either way.
Do I need to travel to Cyprus?
Usually not for the advisory work. Some steps — certain bank onboardings, certain notarial and apostille formalities, occasionally a regulator meeting — do require physical presence or a properly executed power of attorney, and you are told which ones at the scoping stage rather than discovering them mid-process.
Can you take over a structure someone else built?
Yes, and it is a common mandate. The first step is reading what actually exists rather than what it was supposed to be: constitutional documents, register filings, accounts, correspondence with banks and regulators. Fixing an inherited structure usually starts with establishing what it currently says about itself.
Read first, then write
This page describes how we work and the general regulatory picture as at July 2026. It is general information, not legal or tax advice, and sending an enquiry does not create a lawyer-client relationship. Rules change and outcomes depend on facts.
