Corporate Structuring
The way a business is structured affects ownership, governance, liability, capital deployment, taxation, and future succession.
L’Heritage helps founders, families, and international investors design corporate structures that reflect how the business operates today while remaining adaptable to future investment, expansion, restructuring, or generational transition.
We coordinate with legal, tax, accounting, banking, and regulatory professionals to establish a clear and defensible corporate framework. The objective is not simply to incorporate an entity, but to ensure that ownership, control, risk, and commercial purpose remain properly aligned.
Areas of focus
- Ownership and shareholder structuring
- Legal entity and jurisdiction selection
- Separation of business and private assets
- Governance and decision-making authority
- Investment and capital-holding arrangements
- Future succession, exit, or restructuring readiness
What the advisory may include
- Corporate Structure Review — Assess the existing entity arrangement, ownership chain, commercial purpose, and structural risks.
- Entity and Jurisdiction Assessment — Compare appropriate entity types and jurisdictions according to business activity, ownership, governance, tax residency, and regulatory requirements.
- Shareholding Structure Design — Establish a clear framework for founder, family, investor, and strategic-partner ownership.
- Governance Framework — Define board composition, reserved matters, signing authority, voting rights, and approval procedures.
- Asset and Liability Separation — Help distinguish operating activities, investment assets, intellectual property, real estate, and higher-risk business exposure.
- Capital and Funding Coordination — Structure shareholder capital, intercompany funding, shareholder loans, and external financing arrangements.
- Documentation Coordination — Coordinate constitutional documents, shareholder agreements, commercial contracts, and supporting corporate records with appointed counsel.
- Implementation Oversight — Coordinate corporate service providers, banks, accountants, legal advisers, and relevant authorities throughout establishment or restructuring.
All You Need to Know
We support owners on governance, strategic alignment, succession, shareholder communication and major transitions. Specialist legal, tax, corporate finance or operational advisers are engaged where appropriate.
We can help frame objectives, prepare decision materials, coordinate due diligence and manage specialist advisers. Regulated activities are undertaken only by appropriately authorised parties.
Yes. We help clarify shareholder objectives, identify readiness gaps, coordinate advisers and establish a disciplined workplan for leadership succession, partial liquidity or a potential transaction.
We help distinguish family, ownership and management responsibilities, then develop suitable forums, policies and reporting practices to support accountable decisions and long-term continuity.
Yes. Depending on the mandate, we can facilitate periodic reviews, coordinate board or advisory input, track agreed priorities and help principals maintain a clear view across interconnected workstreams.
