Our Services
Southpac Trust Nevis was established in 2000 offering a suite of corporate products that are considered an essential component of any offshore asset protection structure. Nevis is a world leader in this field, with legislation which ensures the highest levels of privacy, confidentiality and asset protection for high-net-worth individuals seeking to safeguard their wealth within a robust legal framework that is specifically designed to cater to the needs of international clients.
More detailed information on or Nevis products is available here.
Through the Southpac Group framework we ensure that our clients receive the highest levels of expertise by leveraging our global network of trusted professionals with decades of shared experience. The following services enable us to cater to the needs of sophisticated investors and protect and nurture everything our clients have diligently accumulated throughout their lives.
Trustee and Fiduciary Services
Over the last 25 years our Nevis trustee company has provided trustee and fiduciary services to hundreds of Southpac clients.
As a trusted wealth planning partner, we appreciate the importance to clients of having a professional, suitably qualified, trustworthy and easily contactable trustee looking after their assets. We work hand in hand with qualified professionals to ensure that a Southpac trustee is a proactive trustee which fully understands how to fulfil its fiduciary responsibilities.
We have applied our longstanding fiduciary expertise as a trustee to other areas and are also able to offer corporate protector, director, manager, secretary and foundation board member services from Nevis.
Trustee and fiduciary services in the Cook Islands and New Zealand are also available through Southpac companies in those jurisdictions
Offshore Trusts
Nevis introduced world-leading asset protection trust laws in 1994 which remain popular today.
‘Day 1 Protection’ is available for assets settled into a trust before a creditor’s cause of action accrues, with a strict 1-year statute of limitations applying to other trust assets. Neither foreign judgments nor forced heirship claims are recognized, and robust privacy laws preserve the confidentiality of trust settlors and beneficiaries. A US$100,000 bond must also be paid into court by any creditor bringing proceedings against a Nevis international trust. These factors make Nevis a particularly attractive jurisdiction.
World-class asset protection need not cost the earth. We offer fixed-fee full-service trust packages from US$7,000 per year. Contact us for more information and details on how to apply.
More information on Nevis trusts and the legislation which governs them is available here.
Offshore trusts are also available through Southpac’s Cook Islands and New Zealand companies.
LLCs, IBCs and Foundations
Southpac Trust Nevis operates as a registered agent in Nevis and can register limited liability companies, Nevis business corporations and multiform foundations for clients.
Nevis became a global leader in the offshore company formation space in the 1990s through the development of an LLC product which combines the benefits of flexibility and outstanding creditor protection.
LLCs are frequently employed as part of a wider trust structure by clients wishing to maintain some level of control and involvement in the management of the trust fund. We are able to offer jurisdictional diversity within client structures by offering the Cook Islands and New Zealand as additional trust jurisdictions.
For clients from jurisdictions unfamiliar with the LLC concept, Nevis business corporations provide an alternative option in a more traditional corporate format.
Nevis multiform foundations are versatile and attractive products for those wishing to combine the asset protection features of a trust with a more streamlined civil law concept that imposes fewer fiduciary responsibilities. The Nevis multiform foundation affords a flexibility not seen in other foundation jurisdictions, and allows foundations to take on the form and share characteristics of other types of entities including trusts, LLCs and partnerships.
LLCs, NBCs and foundations can also be used as private trustee companies for clients wishing to exercise Nevis trustee functions on their own account or through a third party.
Companies and foundations are also available from Southpac’s Cook Islands company.
Investment and Banking Services
Southpac can set up investment portfolios in jurisdictions outside of your home country, whether on a standalone basis or as part of a trust/company structure.
We work with leading boutique investment advisors and private banks throughout the world to provide tailored investment solutions for our clients. The firms we use have been in business for decades and we have trusted relationships with them. The banks we use are typically non-lending and as a result have very secure balance sheets. We have relationships with banks in multiple jurisdictions, including Switzerland, the Cook Islands, Liechtenstein, Austria, Nevis, Belize and the USA. We are always looking for additional custodial partners who meet our stringent criteria.
Through understanding our clients’ circumstances and requirements we can introduce them to investment and custodial solutions to meet these needs.
We continually monitor investment portfolios to ensure that they perform above benchmark and meet clients’ investment objectives.
Accounting Services
Accounting across time zones and jurisdictions can make working in global markets a challenge. Outsourcing this responsibility to experienced professionals relieves that pressure and frees up your time to do the business that counts.
Southpac provides accounting solutions to save you time. We can prepare management accounts, periodic financial statements and special purpose reports in line with generally accepted accounting principles and international accounting standards.