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Strategic Advisory — Investment Structuring — Step 01

The structure begins
with your profile.

Before any ownership structure is proposed, we need a complete picture of who you are as an investor — your tax position, your existing structures, your source of funds, and your intended use of the Cyprus asset.

The Context
The wrong profile input produces the wrong structure. Every time.

We have seen clients arrive with a structure already recommended by an accountant in their home country. Sometimes it is right. More often it is designed around the home jurisdiction without full reference to how Cyprus law, treaty access, and banking requirements interact with the client's specific profile.

A UAE national with a British passport and Israeli tax residency faces a different legal and tax landscape than a straight UAE resident. A family office with existing BVI structures has different constraints than a first-time individual investor. The profile determines the structure — not the other way around.

The profile assessment is where we build that picture. It takes time to do properly. It saves multiples of that time in correcting mistakes later.

What We Establish
Six dimensions of your investor profile.
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    Tax residency
    Where you are resident for tax purposes and what that means for Cyprus.
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    Nationality & passports
    Every passport you hold and the treaty implications of each.
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    Existing structures
    Companies, trusts, or holdings you already have and how Cyprus fits in.
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    Source of funds
    The origin of the capital and how it is documented.
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    Family structure
    Spouse, dependants, and succession considerations.
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    Investment intent
    Personal use, rental income, capital gain, or corporate purpose.
Key Dimensions
What the profile assessment examines.
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Tax Residency
Your current tax residency determines how Cyprus income and gains interact with your home jurisdiction. The assessment maps this interaction before any structure is proposed — because getting it wrong creates a tax liability that the structure cannot fix.
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Treaty Position
Cyprus has double tax treaties with over 65 jurisdictions. Your nationality, residency, and corporate structure determine which treaties apply to you and what benefit they actually provide. We map this as a specific output of the profile assessment.
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Existing Structures
If you already have companies, trusts, or holding structures, the Cyprus structure must be designed to work alongside them — not in isolation. We review your existing structures before making any recommendation.
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Source of Funds
Cyprus banking requires robust source of funds documentation. The profile assessment identifies any potential issues early — before they block an account opening or delay an acquisition.
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Family & Succession
Who inherits the Cyprus asset, on what terms, and under what law — these questions are best addressed at the structuring stage, not after the asset is held in a structure that was not designed for them.
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Business Purpose
A holding structure for passive investment income is designed differently from one intended to support active business operations. The business purpose of the Cyprus entity shapes its constitution, its substance requirements, and its banking profile.
The Output
What the profile assessment produces.
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A Written Investor Profile
A concise document summarising the key parameters of your investor profile — tax position, treaty access, existing structures, source of funds, and succession considerations — confirmed with you before the structure recommendation is made.
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Identified Constraints & Risks
A clear list of the constraints that limit your structural options — nationality-based restrictions, treaty gaps, source of funds complications, or existing structure conflicts — so the recommendation is realistic from the outset.
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Structure Design Parameters
The specific inputs that will govern the structure recommendation in Step 02 — the parameters within which the optimal structure must be designed.
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A Banking Readiness Assessment
An early view of what Cyprus banking documentation will require for your profile, so the source of funds file is prepared in parallel with the structure — not after the entity is formed.
“We do not propose a structure before we understand the person it is designed for.”
Y. Habari & Co. LLC — Investment Structuring
The Process
How the profile assessment is conducted.
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Document Request
We provide a structured document request list — identification documents, existing corporate structure charts, source of funds evidence, and tax residency confirmation. This is sent before the assessment session.
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Assessment Session
A focused 60–90 minute consultation in which we work through the six dimensions of your profile in detail. Direct questions. Detailed notes. No generalisations.
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Profile Summary
We prepare the written investor profile and send it to you for confirmation within three business days. You review, correct if needed, and approve before we proceed to Step 02.
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Structure Brief
Based on the confirmed profile, we prepare the structure design brief — the formal instruction that guides the structure recommendation process in Step 02.
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