For entrepreneurs, investors and cross-border businesses
Cape Town has become home to a growing community of entrepreneurs, investors and families whose financial lives extend well beyond South Africa.
Cape Mutual works with international entrepreneurs, investors, returning South Africans, foreign residents and cross-border businesses that need practical help organising their international affairs.
International corporate structuring involves considerably more than incorporating a company in another jurisdiction. Ownership, governance, operating companies, holding companies, banking, tax residence, economic substance, reporting requirements and ongoing administration all need to work together.
Who owns the structure and how it is governed, decided together rather than as separate questions.
How operating businesses and the companies that hold them fit together across jurisdictions.
Where banking relationships sit, and how they support the structure rather than complicate it.
Where the structure is genuinely tax resident, and whether it has the economic substance to support that.
What must be reported, to whom, and in which jurisdiction, as the structure operates.
Keeping the structure properly maintained and manageable as the business develops.
International corporate structuring involves considerably more than incorporating a company in another jurisdiction.
Ownership, governance, operating companies, holding companies, banking, tax residence, economic substance, reporting requirements and ongoing administration all need to work together.
Cape Mutual helps clients consider the structure as a whole and coordinates the specialist providers required to establish and maintain it.
We are deliberately jurisdiction-agnostic. The appropriate structure depends on where the owners live, where the business operates, where customers and assets are located, and what the structure is genuinely intended to achieve.
Cape Mutual is led by Shaun Burrow, whose career has included financial services, investment and the establishment and operation of businesses and investment structures across multiple international jurisdictions.
That practical experience is important.
Our approach is therefore not simply to produce organisational charts or theoretical structures. We consider how a proposed structure will operate in practice: how companies will be governed, where banking relationships will sit, how service providers will interact, what reporting will be required and how the structure can remain manageable as the business develops.
Specialist legal, accounting and tax advice is obtained from appropriately qualified professionals where required.
Most arrangements begin with a straightforward conversation about your family, your business and where your interests sit. Book a time that suits you and we will take it from there.
Choose an available time in the Cape Mutual diary. You will receive a confirmation and calendar invitation by email.
Appointments are held by video or at our Claremont offices.
Initial consultations are without charge or obligation.