Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 Edition

17 FINANCE MONTHLY Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 CYPRUS Stefan Nolte Managing Director of Shanda Consult Ltd President of the Cyprus Germany Business Association stefan.nolte@shandaconsult.com www.shandaconsult.com +357 222 52 300 FIDUCIARY FIRM OF THE YEAR Winner: Firm Profile Our Competence and Experience for Your Benefits! Shanda Consult is a well-established Fiduciary and Consultancy firm based in Nicosia, Cyprus, founded in 2008 by its German managing director Stefan Nolte. The firm is specialised in international tax consultancy, structuring cross- border company groups as well as in advising, setting up and managing Alternative Investment Funds, Self-Managed Funds, Cyprus Investment Firms and similar. Core markets are the EU, Middle East countries, China and Hong Kong. Shanda Consult is furthermore specialised in project-based investment consultancy, including investment matching services, providing project and company owners with investor proposals and investors with investment project proposals. As a Service Provider regulated by CySec, the Cyprus capital markets authority, Shanda Consult also provides services such as company incorporation and administration, nominee and trustee services, and bookkeeping services. A growing network of European and international experts of tax and business consultants as well as official bodies and banks entrusts Shanda Consult with the conceptions for the right solutions for their clients. Stefan Nolte is committed to serve Cyprus in his role as the President of the Cyprus Germany Business Association, fostering business ties and R&D exchange between the two countries. • Consultancy, Fiduciary and Corporate Services Shanda Consult provides resilient business and tax consultancy as well as complete business location and re-location services, mainly to EU clients who wish to benefit from geographical and tax advantages of Cyprus as a base for their MENA activities, and for clients from Middle and Far East who organise and manage their EU market activities or manage their EU investments from Cyprus. The firm provides excellent corporate services with “German quality”, including the provision of fiduciary services, company management and interimmanagement. The scope of services includes bookkeeping, accountancy and tax services. When it comes to international corporate structures and the right location of holding companies, headquarters, subsidiaries or affiliated companies, Shanda Consult supports its clients benefiting from the unmatched advantages of mainly Cyprus and Malta, but other jurisdictions as well. • International Tax Consultancy In challenging times of CRS, BEPS or FATCA, international tax issues became much more complicated. Knowledge of international tax legislation as well as experience in tax planning are important prerequisites of the global players. Shanda Consult shares its intensive global experience with its clients and assists in benefiting from wisely planned structures. • Funds, Fund Management, Investment Firms TheEU legislationprovides fornewtypesof fundsthatdonot intendtogopublic,butare ratherdesigned for investments of smaller groups of investors or single investors. So called AIFs, or Alternative Investment Funds, Self-Managed Funds and Sub-Funds perfectly cater individual and corporate Private Equity investors. Cyprus implemented the related EU Directives perfectly. Shanda Consult is proud of providing its clients set-up and management services for all types of AIFs and investment firms in Cyprus. • Project-Based Investment and Business Consultancy, Investor and Project Matching Services With its decades-long experience in international business and investment across the continents, except the Americas and Australia, the firm consults its clients in all matters of business and project-related investments in many markets and countries. Shanda Consult assists its clients in finding the right partner for joint-ventures or finding the right investor for a given project, as well as vice versa. Shanda Consult accompanies and supports many investors from the EU as well as from the Gulf Countries, China and Hong Kong. A special focus lies on investors from China and the Gulf region investing in German companies, and on German investors investing in Iran. • Citizenship by Investment Obtaining EU citizenship and EU passport is attracting more and more non-EU citizens. Cyprus has one of the best “Citizenship by Investment Programmes” in the EU, without the obligation to live in Cyprus. Shanda Consult advises its clients in all aspects of Cyprus citizenship and the underlying investment possibilities, and it handles the entire application procedures to obtain citizenship. The firm also assists in finding and realising the right investment objects. • Operation of a First Class Business Centre Euroserv Investments Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of Shanda Consult, offers fully-fledged modern offices, with full office services in the heart of Nicosia at an absolute prime location. The offices do meet the criteria of office space in the context of substance for Cyprus Companies, and they are perfect for a limited number of continuous staff or for start-ups. The offices are also utilised by companies that send temporary staff to Cyprus for the period of particular projects. The business centre is very unique and a real must-see location. Shanda Consult Core Team (with Stefan Nolte in the back on the left)