ZEDRA

Bart Deconinck | Group Executive Chairman 

Ivo Hemelraad | Chief Executive Officer 

ZEDRA'S STORY 

• 100 years of heritage
• 900+industry experts
• Winner of multiple professional awards
• Global reach with local expertise
• Based in 16 jurisdictions across the Americas, UK, Europe & Asia-Pacific
• Languages: 30+ including Cantonese, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Punjabi, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish

FIRM OVERVIEW 

ZEDRA is a global powerhouse providing Corporate & Global Expansion, Active Wealth, Pension & Incentive services and Fund solutions, all aligned under one common goal: to embrace the future with certainty. The firm’s highly experienced teams enable high net worth individuals and families as well as, medium to large sized companies, pension funds and trustees, asset managers and their investors to focus on their core activities by choosing ZEDRA as their trusted partner of choice. As an experienced, reliable and innovative advisor, ZEDRA helps them successfully navigate estate planning, governance and global operations. Ultimately, what ZEDRA delivers is complete peace of mind, knowing its expertise is supported by a robust, ethical approach, meeting the local and international requirements of the increasingly demanding regulatory environment.

PRACTICE AREAS AND OFFICES 

Active Wealth: For Private Clients, families, business owners and their advisers

ZEDRA facilitates streamlined corporate, fund and private wealth services simultaneously and calls it ‘Active Wealth’.It embraces traditional Family Wealth solutions but also the full array of global services that span our broad expertise. ZEDRA carefully devises the solutions that meet clients needs for today and achieve their aspirations for tomorrow.

Family Business Management:

• Business Governance
• Family Office
• Wealth Structuring
• Private Funds
• Escrow

Investment Monitoring Support:

• Investment Consultancy
• Cash Management
• Investment Reporting

Private Wealth:

• Trust & Foundations
• Wills & Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Family Office
• Family Investment Companies
• Probates & Estates

Marine & Aviation

• Registration & Ownership
• EU Importation
• Accounting & VAT Reporting
• Crew Employment & Payroll

Corporate & Global Expansion: For all size corporations and businesses.

ZEDRA unlocks clients’ business ambitions, taking distracting administration and governance away from them, so they are free to scale up and focus on what they do best. ZEDRA services include:

• Incorporation & Management
• Regulatory & Tax Compliance
• Accounting, Payroll & HR
• Economic Substance
• Talent Search
• Transaction & Business Risk Management
• Escrow
• Share Incentives
• International Retirement Plans

Pensions & Incentives: For pension and incentive schemes of all sizes

ZEDRA helps corporates of all sizes design, implement and administer a variety of incentive arrangements and support UK pension schemes with their governance, secretariat and professional trustee needs.

Professional Trusteeship & Governance:

• Professional Trusteeship
• Group Life Trusteeship
• Governance & Secretariat
• Contract-Based Pensions Governance
• Adviser Oversight
• Specialist Governance Projects
• Trustee Training

Share Incentives

• Share Plan Trusts
• Management Incentive Plans
• Nominee Arrangements
• Deferred Compensation
• International Retirement Plans

Fund solutions: For investment fund managers, family offices, institutional and private investors.

As a global independent fund administrator, ZEDRA provides solutions to start-up and existing investment managers, as well as complex structuring to family offices and private investors by working efficiently throughout the fund design process, implementation and governance in a range of locations like Cayman Islands, Curacao, Luxembourg, the Channel Islands, the US and Singapore. ZEDRA services include:

• Establishment & Administration
• Governance & Secretarial
• Accounting & Financial Reporting
• Transfer Agency & Investor Services
• Fund Tax & Regulatory Reporting
• Fund ManCo (AIFM) Services
• ESG Reporting