Family holding company: corporate and wealth structure
We design your family holding company and the structures around it: property holding companies, SPVs, tax-neutral reorganisations (FEAC regime) and succession. All to optimise taxation and protect your wealth, with a long-term view.
Book an initial assessment meetingWealth with no structure and no succession plan
Companies set up as and when needed, assets held inside the business and a succession nobody has put in writing. Structuring properly changes the rules, especially for Wealth Tax and generational succession.
Business and assets in the same company: a risk arising from the business reaches the properties.
Without written rules, succession comes with a tax cost and conflict between heirs.
Without a structure and without meeting the family business requirements, taxation is inefficient.
Cross-shareholdings between individuals and companies, with no clear corporate map.
Corporate architecture: holding company, property holding company and SPV
From a collection of unconnected companies to a clear group map
The structure is easier to understand by following its relationships: first, where ownership and risk intersect; then, how a parent company organises the group.
Shareholder A holds direct stakes in several companies. Each relationship is managed separately because there is no common parent company.
Companies with no parent company, cross-shareholdings between individuals and companies, and assets held inside the operating company.
A parent company that holds the shareholdings, assets kept separate from the business, and one vehicle per project when the risk calls for it.
The group, seen as a single company
A consolidated control view that turns companies, cash and profitability into a shared reading for shareholders and management.
Consolidated cash
Actual to September · forecast October to DecemberGroup revenue
€1.61M
compared with €1.42M the previous yearProfitability
Consolidated group- Gross margin
- 47%
- EBITDA margin
- 22%
- Cash conversion
- 81%
FEAC regime: tax neutrality in mergers, demergers, contributions and share exchanges
It allows the group to be reorganised without paying tax at the time of the transaction: it is a deferral, not an exemption; the tax does not disappear, it is carried forward.
The condition on which the whole transaction rests: there must be a genuine business reason. “Just saving tax” is not one. That is why it is planned well in advance: valuations, agreements and timelines are prepared beforehand.
Reorganisation of shareholdings within the group and among family members, with a documented valuation basis and tax fit.
A structure that optimises and protects.
From a collection of standalone companies to a clear corporate map.
Restructure under the FEAC regime with legal certainty.
Plan the handover before it arrives.
The non-corporate side that matters just as much
The organisation chart arranges the companies, but it is the agreements that decide how money is paid out, who comes in and who leaves, and what happens to the assets at succession. We put them in writing before they are needed.
- Dividends and remuneration
- How money flows from the companies to the shareholders: dividends, loans between shareholders and the company, and directors’ remuneration, each with its own fit and its own cost.
- Shareholder entry and exit
- Agreements, valuation criteria and what happens if someone wants to leave. Put in writing before it is needed, not once a dispute has already started.
- Succession
- The family protocol and the underlying decision: lifetime gift or inheritance. Each has different consequences, and both are prepared years ahead, not months.Family protocolLifetime giftInheritanceFounderNext generation
- Protecting family wealth
- So that your assets do not depend on how the business performs, and the handover does not force you to undo what you have built.
- Family office
- Consolidated wealth reporting, financial investments and assets abroad (forms 720 and 721), with the same team that handles the companies.
How we work
Four steps, in this order and with legal certainty first. We do not propose a target structure without first understanding where the current one starts from.
Understand
Map of the current structure: companies, shareholdings, assets and risks.
Target structure
Design of the structure, with its valid economic reasons and its tax fit.
Roadmap
Order of the transactions, deadlines, resolutions and required documentation.
Ongoing support
Every step of implementation, and a later review to check that the structure holds.
What you get
Efficient taxation
A structure that optimises the group’s tax burden with sound judgement.
Protected assets
Separating business activity and assets reduces risk exposure.
Succession planned
An orderly generational handover, at lower cost and without conflict.
Legal certainty
Robust transactions (FEAC regime) with valid business reasons.
Order
A clear group map instead of unconnected companies.
Let’s review your structure and your assets
We define the target structure and map out an implementation roadmap, supporting you at every step.
Book an initial assessment meeting