Structures That Endure Generations

A privately held advisory firm at the intersection of offshore architecture, global tax compliance, and the quiet work of preserving family wealth across borders and across time.

Silverstone Strategic Consulting Limited · British Virgin Islands

Who We Are

Advisory Without Compromise

Silverstone Strategic Consulting Limited is a BVI-incorporated, multi-disciplinary advisory firm serving high-net-worth families, family offices, and private enterprises across Greater China, Southeast Asia, and the global Chinese diaspora.

We are not a product-distribution channel. We carry no managed fund interests, no insurance commission arrangements, and no referral obligations to financial institutions. Our only mandate is the long-term interest of the families we advise.

Our practice spans four disciplines — corporate and offshore structuring, global investment advisory, asset protection, and cross-border residency planning — delivered as a unified engagement, not a sequence of separate consultations.

We are a small firm by design. Every client relationship is managed by a principal. We accept a limited number of new engagements each year, and we have no interest in becoming otherwise.

Business
4
Core practice disciplines delivered under one engagement
30+
Jurisdictions served through the Silverstone alliance network
BVI
Incorporated & resident in one of the world's most established offshore financial centres
Zero
Product commissions, fund arrangements, or institutional referral obligations

Global Tax Compliance

Designed for the CRS Era

The global information-sharing landscape changed permanently with the OECD's adoption of the Common Reporting Standard. Most advisory firms adapted. We were built for it from the outset. Structures designed before 2014 were built for a world that no longer exists. We design for the world that does.

Under CRS, financial account information flows automatically between more than 100 participating jurisdictions. For families with assets, residency, and business interests spanning multiple countries, this is not a compliance challenge to be managed — it is a structural reality to be designed around from the beginning.

Our approach begins with jurisdictional analysis: understanding where a family's tax anchors sit, where they will likely sit in ten years, and which holding structures will remain both compliant and efficient across that horizon. We then design the architecture accordingly — not as a workaround, but as a position of genuine strength.

Every structure we recommend carries a full CRS/FATCA disclosure analysis. Clients receive clear, written guidance on their reporting obligations under each relevant jurisdiction. We do not issue opinions on structures we would not be prepared to defend before a competent authority.

I

Jurisdictional Selection & Tax Anchor Analysis

Identifying where a client's effective tax residency sits — and where it should sit — before any structure is established. Includes analysis of habitual residence, centre-of-vital-interests tests, and treaty network positioning across relevant jurisdictions.

II

Substance Planning & Economic Reality

CRS and BEPS have made genuine economic substance — directors, employees, office presence — a prerequisite for credible offshore structures. We advise on and coordinate substance requirements for BVI, Cayman, and other holding jurisdictions to ensure structures withstand scrutiny.

III

Beneficial Ownership & UBO Registry Compliance

Global UBO registry requirements are expanding. We maintain current working knowledge of disclosure obligations across BVI, Cayman, Hong Kong, Singapore, and EU jurisdictions, and design holding structures that meet these requirements while preserving appropriate confidentiality within the law.

IV

Ongoing Compliance Architecture

A structure is not an event — it is an ongoing obligation. We provide annual CRS/FATCA review, entity maintenance, substance monitoring, and proactive guidance as the regulatory environment evolves. Our clients are never surprised by a compliance development we should have anticipated.

Family Wealth & Legacy Planning

The Work of Generational Thinking
Trust Structuring Discretionary, fixed-interest, and purpose trust vehicles across BVI, Cayman, and common law jurisdictions.
Family Governance Family charters, investment policy statements, inter-generational council design, and conflict resolution frameworks.
Succession Architecture Forced heirship mitigation, multi-jurisdictional will coordination, and trustee succession planning.
Family Office Setup Single-family office establishment, governance documentation, and investment mandate structuring.
Philanthropy Charitable purpose vehicle structuring, foundation establishment, and donor-advised fund coordination across jurisdictions.
A

Wealth Transfers Across Generations, Not Between Transactions

The families we work with are not looking to execute a single transaction. They are building something that will outlast them — and they need counsel that thinks in the same dimension. Our legacy practice is designed around this reality. We begin every family engagement not with a product conversation, but with a diagnostic: Where is the wealth held? Where do family members reside? What are the succession intentions? What are the family's governance dynamics, particularly across generations and geographies? Only once this picture is clear do we begin structuring.

B

The China-Corridor Family: Specific Challenges, Specific Solutions

Families with roots in Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Southeast Asia face a specific set of pressures that conventional Western advisory models are not calibrated to address: currency controls and outbound remittance limitations, forced heirship implications under civil law systems, concentrated illiquid asset bases in domestic real estate or private businesses, and the generational complexity of wealth built by one generation now being transitioned to another with different passports, languages, and risk tolerances. Our team operates within this corridor natively. We do not translate the problem for a Western advisor. We are the advisor — and we bring the full architecture of international structuring to bear on challenges that are genuinely specific to this client community.

C

Residency Planning as a Structural Tool

For many families, a second or alternative residency is not simply a lifestyle preference — it is a core component of tax planning, succession strategy, and long-term risk diversification. We integrate residency planning directly into the structural design process, rather than treating it as a separate advisory track. Our preferred programmes — including Panama's Qualified Investor Visa, selected Caribbean citizenship-by-investment pathways, and the UAE residency framework — are chosen not for speed of processing, but for structural utility: their treaty profiles, tax treatment of foreign income, and long-term viability in a changing global regulatory landscape.

Who We Serve

Three Distinct Client Profiles
Profile

Mainland China High-Net-Worth Families (Greater China Practice)

First and second-generation wealth holders seeking to internationalise their balance sheet, establish offshore holding structures for business interests, and position assets for orderly succession — within the boundaries of current PRC regulatory requirements and with full CRS compliance designed in from the outset. We are not a circumvention service. We are a compliant structuring practice.

Profile

Southeast Asian Chinese Family Offices (Southeast Asia Practice)

Established multi-generational families in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines with existing offshore structures seeking a review, restructure, or upgrade to meet current CRS, BEPS, and substance standards. Also families establishing first-generation family office infrastructure and requiring coordination across legal, accounting, investment, and governance disciplines in a single engagement.

Profile

Global Residency & Immigration Clients (Mobility & Residency Practice)

Individuals and families for whom a change of residency is a serious structural decision, not a lifestyle transaction. We work with clients planning emigration from Greater China and Southeast Asia who require the residency planning to be integrated with their overall tax and holding structure — ensuring that the new residency creates a genuine improvement in their structural position, not a compliance liability elsewhere.

The Professional Alliance

One Team Every Discipline

Silverstone operates within a standing network of affiliated professionals across law, accounting, investment banking, and regulatory compliance. These are not referrals — they are coordinated participants in a single client engagement, managed under unified oversight and subject to the same confidentiality standards as our own principals. The practical consequence for clients: a single point of accountability, a single briefing, and a single set of instructions — rather than the coordination burden of managing multiple advisors in multiple time zones.

Legal

Affiliated law firms practising across BVI, Cayman, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada. Corporate law, trust and estate litigation, immigration law, and international arbitration — available as part of any engagement.

Accounting

Big Four-alumni CPAs and boutique tax practices providing CRS/FATCA reporting architecture, offshore fund accounting, transfer pricing analysis, and substance documentation for all major jurisdictions in our network.

Capital Markets

Regulated intermediaries in the Greater China corridor and Southeast Asia providing M&A advisory, private placement facilitation, valuation services, and secondary market access for qualified investors.

Compliance

Dedicated AML officers and KYC specialists embedded in the alliance for client onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and regulatory reporting across FSC-regulated jurisdictions. Compliance is continuous, not episodic.

Private Banking

Coordinated introductions to private banking desks in Switzerland, Singapore, and Hong Kong — facilitating account establishment, custody arrangements, and discretionary mandate structures for qualified clients.

Residency

Licensed practitioners managing Panama QIV, Caribbean CBI, UAE residency, and Portuguese NHR applications — with full coordination into the client's wider structural and tax planning engagement.

Why Silverstone

Five Reasons Clients Stay for Decades
01

We Are Domiciled Where Our Clients Structure

Silverstone is a BVI company advising on BVI structures — not a mainland or onshore firm offering offshore opinions from a distance. We operate within the same corporate registry, the same legal framework, and the same regulatory environment that we recommend to clients. This alignment is the foundation of credibility in offshore advisory, and it is not common.

02

CRS-Native, Not CRS-Adapted

We began practising after the OECD's Common Reporting Standard changed the rules of global tax transparency. Every structure we have ever recommended has been designed with CRS compliance as a baseline, not a retrofit. Clients who come to us with legacy structures built in the pre-CRS era routinely discover material compliance gaps that their original advisors failed to anticipate. We find these gaps before regulators do.

03

Bicultural Intelligence, Not Translation

Our principals operate in Mandarin and English with equal facility — not as a service feature, but as a reflection of who we are. We understand the specific legal, cultural, and family dynamics of Mainland Chinese wealth holders, Hong Kong family offices, and the Southeast Asian Chinese business community from the inside. We do not need an interpreter for any aspect of a client's situation: financial, familial, or jurisdictional.

04

Generational Horizon, Not Transaction Horizon

Our highest-value client relationships have spanned decades. We design structures with 30-year succession provisions, we anticipate second-generation governance challenges at inception, and we maintain ongoing oversight of client structures rather than issuing opinions and moving on. The families who choose us are not looking for a transaction. They are looking for an institution — one small enough to know their name and serious enough to have earned their trust.

05

No Marketing. No Announcements. Referral Only.

We have never published a client name, a transaction announcement, or a case study. Our reputational model is entirely referral-based, which means the quality of our work is our only means of growth. We maintain strict information barriers across all mandates, and every engagement operates under the highest standard of professional confidentiality available under BVI law and applicable international conventions. Discretion, at Silverstone, is infrastructure — not a service add-on.

“The families who endure are not those who accumulated the most. They are those who built structures that could carry what they built — across borders, across generations, and across whatever the world becomes next.”

— The Silverstone Principle

Begin a Confidential Conversation

We accept a limited number of new client relationships each year. Initial consultations are conducted by senior principals, by appointment, under strict professional confidentiality.

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