Investment platforms
SOPARFI, SCSp and regulated fund vehicles for sponsors raising and deploying European capital.
We build the layer between you and Europe.
Holding platforms in Luxembourg and the Netherlands for investment funds, US groups and private capital. Designed once, correctly, by the people who will still be administering them in five years.
23.87%
Luxembourg aggregate rate for 2026
88 / 98
Treaties in force, Luxembourg / Netherlands
0%
US dividend rate via the Netherlands at 80%+
Two jurisdictions, and a considered reason for each.
Corporate holdings
Dutch B.V. platforms owning operating subsidiaries across the single market.
Substance and defence
Boards, governance and documentation built to hold under a Principal Purpose Test.
A structure you can see before you commit to it.
We draw the chain, name every entity and say what each one is for, on one page you can send to your board.
Who you will work with
The person who reads your structure is the person in the room when it is negotiated.
[PORTRAIT]
Alexander Baranov
Founder & Principal
Seventeen years designing international corporate structures, since 2008 — pharmaceutical projects across Germany, Austria and France, corporate mandates in the Gulf and Asia, and market entry into the EU. Author of nine books on cross-border structuring and market entry.
Recent notes
When treaty benefits are denied
A reduced withholding rate on paper is not the same as one you get to keep.
LOB and the PPT
The US asks what an entity is. Europe asks why it exists. Transatlantic structures face both.
Luxembourg for US companies
Why the Netherlands is often the better answer, and when it is not.
Tell us what you are holding, and who owns it.
We will map the Luxembourg and Dutch options against both rulebooks and tell you what it costs to build and to run — before anything is incorporated.
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