Establishment in Dubai and the UAE
Residence, company, licence, initial tax position, banking and launch.
INTERNATIONAL TAX PLANNING · BASED IN DUBAI
Freedom that works across borders
Your international structure, personally coordinated.
Tax, business and international mobility solutions for founders, investors and companies that need clarity across jurisdictions—not another layer of complexity.
Global mobility
START WITH YOUR SITUATION
What do you need to resolve?
You do not need to diagnose yourself or choose a jurisdiction before explaining what is changing.
I want to establish myself in Dubai
Residence, company, licence, initial tax position and launch.
Explore this situationI am considering moving to another country
Tax residence, mobility and coordination before the move.
Explore this situationI live in one country and my company operates from another
Residence, effective management and cross-entity obligations.
Explore this situationI need to create or organise an international structure
Diagnosis, design, documentation, banking and reorganisation.
Explore this situationI need to manage and maintain an existing structure
Accounting, renewals, filings and periodic review.
Explore this situationSERVICES
The right service for each stage.
The solution starts with the facts: where you live, where decisions are made, how the business operates and what must be evidenced.
Residence and international mobility
Planning before relocation and coordination of personal and business implications.
International tax and business structuring
Tax-efficient, sustainable structures aligned with residence, effective management and real activity.
Virtual assets, blockchain and digital business
Corporate and tax structuring for digital activities and virtual-asset operations.
Management, compliance and banking
Accounting, renewals, filings, calendars, banking operations and periodic review.
Private wealth and succession planning
Coordination of ownership, investment and succession across countries.
ONE POINT OF COORDINATION
One criterion that follows the case from start to finish.
BASE AND REACH
Based in Dubai. International coordination when the case requires it.
Jurisdictions are not a catalogue. They enter when they serve a real residence, activity, investment or market-access need.
United Arab Emirates
Based in Dubai. Coordinated when the case requires it.
Residence planningCorporate setupLicensingBanking coordinationTax positioningMarket entry
START FROM THE UAE01COMMERCIAL PRESENCE · BANKING CONTINUITY · UK STRUCTURESUnited KingdomCompanies · VAT/commercial substance · banking · treaty coordination.→
02MARKET ACCESS · LLC/C-CORP ARCHITECTURE · PAYMENT RAILSUnited StatesDelaware/Wyoming · SaaS/IP · Stripe · investor readiness · withholding.→
03PRIVATE WEALTH · HOLDING ARCHITECTURE · FUNDSSwitzerland & LuxembourgPrivate banking · SPVs · securitisation · RAIF/SIF-style coordination.→
04RESIDENCE TRANSITION · EU PERSONAL TAX · RELOCATION CONTINUITYPortugal & CyprusLegacy NHR · Cyprus non-dom · holding use cases · EU continuity.→
05EU REGULATED ACTIVITY · EMI · MICA-FACING VIRTUAL ASSETSLithuania & EstoniaPayment institutions · VASP/CASP · MiCA perimeter · e-residency.→
06ASIA ACCESS · TRADING FLOWS · REGIONAL EXPANSIONHong Kong & SingaporeTrading structures · banking access · investment flows · regional HQ.→
07SPECIAL-PURPOSE JURISDICTIONS, NEVER A CATALOGUEOthers, only by caseAdded only when they serve a real function within the client's structure.→
The UAE is the operating base. Other jurisdictions are coordinated with local professionals only when the client's structure specifically needs them — not offered as a menu.
CRITERIA
A structure works when every part tells the same story.
Before a solution is recommended, six dimensions must make sense together.
Residence
Where the person lives and which ties remain in other countries.
Management
Where important business decisions are actually made.
Tax
Which rules apply to the person, the entities and their income.
Company
What each entity does and who controls it.
Banking
How activity, funds, payments and relationships are supported.
Evidence
Which documents show that reality matches the design.
INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS
What is changing. What matters. What comes next.
Focused analysis of the tax, regulatory, technology and long-term shifts shaping international business, ownership and private wealth.
INTERNATIONAL TAX · TAX TECHNOLOGY
The Age of Sloppy Tax Planning Is Ending
AI and connected tax data are making poorly designed international structures harder to defend. Why proper tax planning matters more than ever.
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PRIVATE CAPITAL · EVIDENCE
Proof of Wealth: A Balance Is Not an Explanation
Why balances, ownership records and transaction evidence must form one coherent account of how wealth was created and how specific funds moved.
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VIRTUAL ASSETS · TAX TRANSPARENCY
Crypto Tax Transparency in 2026: How CARF Changes International Tax Planning
Why tax residence, beneficial ownership and transaction records now matter more than where a wallet or exchange is located.
Read the analysis ↗EXPERIENCE ACROSS BORDERS
Real situations. Coordinated decisions.
Three anonymised examples of how facts, risks and decisions are organised across jurisdictions.
CASE 01
Corporate and wealth structure across the UAE, US and Europe
- Situation
- A UAE-resident founder, a US business and investments and family ties in Europe.
- Tension
- Ownership, fund flows and succession were not coordinated.
- Intervention
- Risk, function and document mapping; design coordinated with local advisers.
- Outcome and trade-off
- A clearer, defensible structure with expressly accepted maintenance obligations and local costs.
CASE 02
Accounting and tax reconstruction of a UAE–US group
- Situation
- Several entities, cross-transactions and incomplete records accumulated over prior periods.
- Tension
- The accounts could not accurately explain balances, payments or intragroup relationships.
- Intervention
- Document reconstruction, reconciliation and coordination of applicable accounting and tax treatment.
- Outcome and trade-off
- Information organised for remediation and maintenance without removing historic obligations or local review.
CASE 03
European market access for a digital-assets business
- Situation
- An international digital project needed to operate and contract within the European market.
- Tension
- Activity, regulation, banking and operational presence required a compatible solution.
- Intervention
- Alternative comparison and corporate, tax and operational coordination with local specialists.
- Outcome and trade-off
- A viable, documented route subject to substance, ongoing compliance and banking acceptance.
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CASE COORDINATION
Build a life that works across borders.
Carlos Barredo coordinates the analysis and work from Dubai, together with specialists from the jurisdictions involved when the case requires it.