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Asia-Pacific to Europe

We help groups, founders and investors across Asia and the Pacific build their European platform, structuring inbound expansion through Dutch and Luxembourg holdings — often via Hong Kong or Singapore intermediate vehicles — so trade and investment reach the EU on a coherent, treaty-aware footing.

HOW WE HELP

What this desk delivers

European Entry Platform

We structure the European holding platform for Asian groups, typically a Dutch BV or Luxembourg vehicle held through Hong Kong, Singapore or other intermediate vehicles, and coordinate the substance requirements that support it, working with the relevant tax counsel.

Corridor Tax Structuring

We design holding and treaty structures across the Asia-Pacific to Europe corridor, drawing on the EU participation exemption and the Netherlands and Luxembourg treaty networks to organise dividend, royalty and capital flows.

Trade & Operating Structures

We structure the European side of trade, distribution and operating activity, coordinating transfer pricing and intercompany flows for groups expanding from markets across Asia and the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand.

European Assets & Capital

We structure European real estate and investment holdings for Asian capital and coordinate the financing of those assets, introducing relevant lenders and capital partners — Montclare coordinating and introducing the parties, not acting as the lender.

SELECTED MANDATE

How we have helped in this region

Asian trading group · EU distribution hub
SITUATION

An Asian consumer-goods group selling into Europe through third-party distributors wanted its own EU hub — but import VAT, customs and bank onboarding for a foreign-owned entity had stalled the project for over a year.

WHAT WE DID

Established the Dutch BV as the group’s European principal; coordinated the VAT position — including the Article 23 import-deferment licence — with licensed tax counsel; prepared the KYC and source-of-funds file to bank standard; sequenced customs, warehousing and transfer-pricing support with the group’s advisers.

OUTCOME

The hub now imports and distributes across the EU from the Netherlands without cash-flow VAT on imports, with banking in place and a transfer-pricing file that stands up to bank and counterparty due diligence.

Anonymised mandate — client identity and figures withheld for confidentiality.
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LOCAL PARTNER · KOREA

KOISRA, Seoul

KOISRA

KOISRA has helped international companies establish and operate in South Korea since 2009, working from Seoul across market entry, business development, investment and corporate support. Under a cooperation agreement in force since September 2026, Korean groups that need a Dutch or European structure reach this desk through KOISRA, and clients moving the other way are introduced to them. Each firm answers for its own jurisdiction, and the client relationship stays where it began.

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