Many foreign investors and private equity funds putting money in Indian firms will soon realize that pulling out of the country can be a lot tougher than they imagined. For years, offshore financial and strategic investors have struck deals with their Indian partners to put in place an easy exit arrangement. It gave the abroad … Read more
Why Incorporate an Offshore Tax Haven Company? An Offshore, International Company is commonly set up in a tax haven like the British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Caymans Islands etc, where there are no corporate or personal income taxes, capital gains taxes, reporting requirements, or restrictions on company employment policies. As the “world” becomes global, fewer businesses … Read more
During the past decade over 5.5 million Brits have left the UK in search of a better life overseas. Many have been financially hit hard by the recent economic downturn and the weakening on the British pound. It has had a huge impact on incomes of those who rely heavily on a British pension or … Read more
Co-authored by Jordan L. Eftekari, Esq. (1) Introduction On November 2, 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article: “Got 0,000? The U.S. Awaits (Government’s EB-5 Program Offers Foreign Investors Green Cards for Job Creation)”. A Federal program known as EB-5 (Immigrant-Investor Visa), administered by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”), encourages foreign investors … Read more
THE HISTORY OF THE EURODOLLAR MARKET IN THE 1960s (A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT) Introduction The Euro-dollar market* was in fact, and is indeed today, an international wholesale market in money, involving Euro-sterling and other national currencies such as Swiss franc and to a lesser degree the other major European currencies. This paper will briefly … Read more