Dear Lucie  

                                                                    

Three years after launching the IBSA, it has become evident that we are attracting both entrepreneurs and their professional advisers to what is becoming more of an 'entrepreneurial club’.  The topics we are covering appeal to both client and advisor, and the global reach we have achieved is testament to meeting the requirements of SME companies. Please click here to download a copy of our latest brochure explaining the exclusive benefits of membership and comments from existing members.

                                 

As part of the ‘mentoring’ concept of the Association, we are running an exclusive London workshop on 24th June, where our Full Corporate Members have the opportunity of inviting 3 of  their younger professional advisors to attend the course free of charge (1 designated member for our Intermediate Corporate firms).  Please scroll down for more information on this workshop.

As an example of the financial benefits of membership, we are holding a one-day conference together with Private Client Series on 6th July which will bring together the leading minds in the industry to discuss the unintended consequences of the constant global drive towards total transparency.  We will be covering beneficial ownership issues, PSC registers, Trusts and Privacy, Data Protection, and the Protection of Human Rights and Privacy Laws. The conference fee is £899 plus VAT but has been reduced to £450 plus VAT for IBSA members.  Please contact lucie.hoyland@istructuring.com if you would like to receive the promotional code for this offer.

Following the success of our London Branch Meeting in May titled 'Brexit; Relocating your UK Company', we are holding a similar discussion in Cyprus on 20th June hosted by our Vistra members at the Londa Beach Hotel, Limassol (more details on this below).  

                                          

I am currently putting together the annual IBSA November conference for which some corporate members have already indicated their wish to present on one of the sessions.  Please click here for the current programme.  If any of our corporate members would like to speak on any of the Sessions, please let me know as soon as possible so we can discuss prospective topics.

                          

I am truly delighted with how the IBSA has developed over the past few years. If you are interested in becoming a member or would like to join a local or the global committee, please contact Lucie.Hoyland@istructuring.com .        

                           

Best regards,

                                       

                          

Roy Saunders

The Londa Beach Hotel, Cyprus

Roy Saunders of the IBSA and Gerard Jan van Spall of Vistra would like to invite you to join Dmitry Zapol of IFS Consultants, Demis Ioannou of Taxatelier, Richard Melton of Vistra (Jordans Trust Company), and Geraldine Schembri of EMCS Ltd for a discussion group meeting at Londa Beach Hotel, 72 Georgiou A Street, Potamos Germasogeia, Limassol 4048 on 20th June at 18.00.  

The meeting will discuss the concerns of UK companies with activities within the European Union as a result of Brexit and what corporate and tax options exist for them to migrate from the UK into another member state. The various options, other than liquidation and starting afresh, include changes of place of effective management, business and asset transfers, corporate re-domiciliation and cross border mergers.

Networking drinks and canapés, kindly provided by Vistra hosting the event, will follow the discussion and offer the opportunity to meet fellow members and their guests. This event is open to the public and is free to IBSA members.

Squire Patton Boggs, London

Roy Saunders, Chairman of the IBSA, and his IFS Consultant colleague Dmitry Zapol, would like to cordially invite you to a workshop examining the international tax issues relevant to the expansion of the fictitious Polycon Lens Company as it morphs into the multinational Eyemax Corporation throughout its generational journey.  This workshop is being hosted by Squire Patton Boggs at their office at 7 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YH on 24 th J une 2017 at 09:00.

                

The Polycon journey was the basis of Roy’s leading international tax reference book for 30 years, International Tax Systems and Planning Techniques, as well as the MA course in international tax law at the University of London for the past 5 years.  The workshop will start with an explanation of an entrepreneur’s invention developed by the manufacturing entity, the company's overseas expansion with warehousing facilities, representative offices and then sales subsidiaries, corporate acquisitions made to expand the global reach of the company followed by an IPO as the company’s financial requirements dictate for its future growth. The appropriate holding company regimes, along with financing and licensing techniques will be examined along with investment vehicles for real estate and other fringe activities, with the final stage being the creation of a private equity fund under the newly branded Eyemax umbrella.  

      

There are 4 hrs of CPD accreditation for this workshop.   

This workshop is exclusively for the Corporate firms of the IBSA and carries no charge as it is geared towards our younger professional colleagues in the spirit of ‘mentoring’ and encouraging them to participate in the growth of the IBSA. 

The workshop will be followed by lunch kindly provided by Squire Patton Boggs who are sponsoring this event.    

Venue TBC, London

We are delighted to invite you to an IBSA conference in conjunction with Private Client Series on 6th July.  This event will bring together the leading minds in the industry to discuss the unintended consequences of the constant global drive towards total transparency. It will enable attendees to answer the key questions posed by their clients on an increasingly regular basis:

What should you be doing now, and when the information starts flowing?

* Understanding the Brexit impact

* Bilateral as opposed to unilateral

* Are we on the road to a globally coordinated tax system?

* Beneficial ownership: the connecting factor

Where does this leave the Privacy vs Transparency debate?

* Dawson-Damer vs Taylor Wessing

* Scope of data protection rules

* Trusts and privacy battlefront

* Exchange of information and

* The protection of human rights and privacy laws

Direct impact on clients and you, the advisors

* Practical impact on tax investigations

* Corporate criminal offence of enabling tax evasion

* Notification of offshore structures - what does it mean for your clients?* Powers of enquiry

* Enhanced penalties  

The conference fee is £899 plus VAT but has been reduced to £450 plus VAT for IBSA members.  Please contact lucie.hoyland@istructuring.com if you would like to receive the promotional code for this offer.