Corporate Structures – What do you really need?

The world of corporate structures is frequently a maze. What do you really need to protect your assets and maximise the potential for wealth creation?   

At a basic level, businesses are composed of a number of different “asset” types:    

• intellectual property;
•  plant and equipment; and
•  cash

The main “driver” for setting up a corporate structure is to protect and consolidate these assets. A secondary aim is to ensure that business owners can crystallise the value of their businesses down the track. After all, no one wants to remain tied to a desk forever.  

DC Strategy assists companies across a wide range of growth profiles, from start ups to multi-nationals.   

The key, as we see it, is to keep any structure as clean and simple as possible. Clearly, the structure used for a large public company is necessarily more complex than that used for a small to medium business, however the theory remains largely the same: 

•  protect valuable assets;
•  make the structure easy to understand from an investor perspective; and
•  ensure that the structure makes sense from a tax, commercial and liability perspective.   

 

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