MONTCLARE
CAPITAL PARTNERS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.