International expansion or group architecture
The business is entering a new country, adding a foreign entity or reaching the point where an existing group needs one coherent ownership, governance and operating model.
Group Structuring →LEXONYX
Strategic structuring of international business
We help founders and international businesses align ownership, company roles, management, cross-border tax exposure and banking logic in one coherent international structure that reflects how the business actually operates.
START FROM YOUR SITUATION
Start with what is driving the review now
The first step should follow the trigger: international expansion, owner relocation, banking scrutiny, private capital needs, or a major transaction or structural change.
Founder Mobility & Business Relocation
A founder, owner or director is moving country and the consequences extend beyond personal residence to management, company residence, CFC/PE exposure, banking, governance and restructuring.
Explore the relocation route →Bank / PSP / Source of Funds scrutiny
A bank or payment provider needs a clear explanation of ownership, UBO, business model, flows, Source of Funds / Source of Wealth and the evidence behind them.
Banking Readiness →Private capital or family office
Operating businesses, investment assets and family interests across jurisdictions need coherent ownership, governance, succession and wealth-provenance planning.
Private Capital →Transaction, investor or major structural change
An existing structure needs to be tested before a sale, investment, financing, restructuring, due diligence process or a material change in operations.
Strategic Structure Audit →DEDICATED ROUTE
For Ukrainian owners & businesses in Europe
A specialist route for Ukrainian founders, owners and businesses dealing with EU expansion, owner mobility, banking, capital and cross-border structure questions.
Explore the dedicated route →HOW WE READ THE STRUCTURE
One structure. Several connected workstreams.
We test ownership, management, cross-border tax interfaces, banking, governance and evidence against how the business actually operates. Where a matter requires a jurisdiction-specific legal, tax or regulatory conclusion, that conclusion is provided or confirmed by an appropriately qualified professional and integrated into the overall project architecture.
Business architecture → ownership, company roles, management and real flows
Cross-border risk → tax residence, CFC, PE, VAT and treaty interfaces
Banking & capital → KYC/AML logic, Source of Funds / Source of Wealth and explainable flows
Governance & evidence → authority, decisions, substance and a verifiable document trail
Business reality comes before jurisdiction.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Concrete work products — not disconnected recommendations
The exact scope depends on the engagement. The output is translated into defined work products that show the current structure, material dependencies and implementation priorities.
Structure Map
Entities, ownership, company roles, management, functions and material relationships.
Risk Matrix
Material cross-border dependencies and risks across tax, PE/VAT, banking, governance and regulation.
Governance & Evidence Assessment
Authority, decision trail, banking narrative and the evidence supporting how the model actually operates.
Implementation Roadmap
A prioritised sequence of changes, specialist conclusions and documents required for implementation.
WORK FORMATS
From diagnosis to defined projects and ongoing coordination
The format follows the task: bounded diagnostic, whole-system audit, finite project or defined recurring support.
Express Risk Review
A bounded diagnostic when the facts or primary issue still need to be mapped.
Strategic Structure Audit
A whole-system review of an existing international structure.
Project-Based Advisory
A finite project for a defined design, relocation, remediation, banking/SoF or transaction outcome.
Ongoing Advisory
Defined recurring support after the baseline is understood.
TYPICAL SITUATIONS
What structural work looks like in practice
Banking onboarding
Problem
A group across several jurisdictions was refused account openings: the bank could not trace the ownership logic and the origin of funds.
Approach
We rebuilt the business story, aligned the flows with company roles and prepared explainable SOF/SOW documentation to the bank's requirements.
Outcome
An ownership-and-flow map, an aligned business narrative and a set of SOF/SOW evidence were prepared for the banking review.
PE risk and the team
Problem
Team growth across several countries created permanent-establishment risk and questions about the owner's tax residency.
Approach
We matched functions, authority and people's presence to the corporate architecture, and set up governance so that it matched reality.
Outcome
A PE risk map, a team authority matrix and a governance model aligned with the actual management of the business were prepared.
Entering a new market
Problem
When entering the EU, a standard "by-country scheme" ignored VAT logic, the regulatory perimeter and presence requirements.
Approach
We designed the structure around the specific operating model: company roles, the VAT perimeter, presence and the permissibility of operations.
Outcome
A target Structure Map, a VAT roadmap, a regulatory perimeter and a list of questions for local tax and legal advisers were produced.
Actual projects and details are confidential. The scenarios are generalised and anonymised. They illustrate the nature of the work and are not a promise of a particular outcome: decisions are made independently by banks, regulators and tax authorities.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
See how LEXONYX analyses cross-border structures
Selected analysis showing the method in practice — from a founder move to management location and home-office PE.
A PRIVATE STRUCTURAL REVIEW
Understand what your structure should be — before registration, growth or review
Describe the business model, jurisdictions, owners, team and cash flows. We will identify the key structural questions, risks and a suitable format of work.