The Consulco Group

The Consulco Group was established in 1993 in Cyprus with the inauguration of Consulco Limited, the first firm of what today is a Group of companies of international reach. The Consulco Group nowadays not only has offices in Cyprus, but also in Bulgaria, Dubai, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Russia and Sweden.

In addition, the Consulco Group has a broad network of representatives throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the CIS and the USA. In a truly multi-cultural environment, over 300 professionals working for the Consulco Group specialise in the fields of corporate law, tax law, finance, audit and banking. Committed to delivering practical advice and innovative perspectives to their clients and partners,  our professionals communicate in English, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Latvian, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, French, Swedish, German, and Arabic.

Combining their local expertise with international knowledge and experience, our professionals offer a wider range of high quality services in the fields of tax planning, corporate advisory, audit, bookkeeping, domiciliation and banking for companies that operate in Cyprus, Malta or various other jurisdictions. These jurisdictions include Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK as well as typical offshore jurisdictions such as the BVI and the Isle of Man.

In all international business decisions, international tax aspects play an important role. Consulco, with its International Tax Department, belongs to the select few Cyprus firms with a solid international taxation practice that has an outstanding record of accomplishments in assisting clients with expert Cypriot tax advice. The members of our International Tax Department have a long history of sophisticated representations of multinational companies in the field of international taxation. What is more, we have been involved in a significant number of large M&A transactions or other major cross-border capital movements, including IPOs in West and East European stock exchanges. Consulco was ranked as one of the leading tax consultancy firms of Cyprus for 2009 by the International Tax Review, the world's most authoritative magazine dedicated to international tax strategy. 

Through our corporate law department, Consulco provides services to thousands of clients who seek consultation and assistance in a wide spectrum of issues relating to the company laws of Cyprus and other jurisdictions. Our legal advisors and paralegals, have the experience and the expertise to provide services of the highest quality covering a wide range of legal issues. To name but a few we advice and support our clients in such areas as domiciliation of companies from and into Cyprus, company formation and preparation of relevant documents and maintenance of statutory accounts and all other company  activities.

Recognising that today’s business environment is subject to constant transformation and complex processes, we provide audit services that create added value to our clients and help them manage the risks, whatever the size of the organisation.  Consulco is a correspondent member of RSM International (www.rsmi.com),  the sixth largest network of independent accounting and consulting firms in the world. Together with RSM Top-Audit, one of the biggest Russian audit firms, Consulco & Partner has carried out international audits for major clients in Russia.  RSM International has 93 affiliate member and correspondent firms in 76 countries. RSM has 736 offices worldwide and has 32,492 staff including 3,150 partners.   RSM’s combined fee income is US$3.87bn.’

Over the years of Consulco’s operation the main attribute that marks the success of our Firm is the establishment and maintenance of long term personal relations with our clients. We constantly seek to improve our existing services and enhance our offerings with new solutions that best suit their demands. In this context, our company management services also aim at assisting our clients with their banking requirements by acting as the single point of contact for all relevant requests.

Summarizing, our main service areas in which we provide assistance to our clients - large international corporations, middle sized and family businesses as well as high net worth individuals - are:

• International Tax Planning, including the issuing of tax opinions and the negotiation of tax rulings.
• Corporate advisory services, including the legal guidance of mergers and acquisitions and the issuing of legal opinions.
• Bookkeeping and accounting services, preparation of financial statements and audit services.
• Registration of companies for different purposes and of different organizational and legal forms in different countries, including registration of trusts, banks, European investment companies and European Investment Firms and Funds.  
• Provision of full domiciliary legal structures for these entities, including; registered office addresses, nominee shareholders, directors, secretaries, registered agents, provision of telephone-  and fax numbers, provision of e-mail addresses, the readdressing of incoming calls, secretarial services and provision of other (virtual office) services.
• Opening of bank accounts with European banks for companies and private individuals and assistance in day-to-day banking matters.