The firm we wished existed when we were the client.
HPT Group is an independent cross-border advisory. We help high-net-worth founders, families and operating businesses design and govern structures across multiple jurisdictions — and we were built to close a gap our clients kept describing: senior, director-led structuring without the overhead and detachment of the Big Four, and without the reach problems of a small boutique.
Our purpose
HPT Group helps families and businesses navigate the complexity of operating, holding and transferring wealth across borders. We design and govern legal, banking and tax structures for high-net-worth founders, family offices and operating companies across 60+ jurisdictions, onshore and offshore.
Every engagement is led by a principal director who personally owns the matter from initial diagnosis through to implementation. The firm is deliberately small because the senior-led service model is not compatible with the scale of a global accountancy practice.
What we do not do
HPT Group does not operate as a formation factory or sell investment products. We do not advertise tax savings; we advise on tax positions that can be defended. We do not design structures whose primary feature is opacity, and we decline matters where the underlying purpose is to obscure beneficial ownership. Our memoranda are written to be read by your banker, auditor and home counsel.
The clients we serve
Approximately half of our work supports founders running operating businesses across borders, in sectors including software, e-commerce, trading and fintech. The remainder serves high-net-worth families and family offices, ranging from pre-liquidity entrepreneurs to multi-generational structures already several decades old.
The common thread across both communities is a preference for written advice, senior practitioners and structures designed to remain defensible over the long term. Many of our client relationships now extend over ten years.
How we engage
All fees are agreed in writing before any work begins, and the engagement letter sets out clearly what is, and is not, within scope. A named director leads the matter and signs the deliverable. Each memorandum is drafted to be defended in front of your banker, your auditor and your counsel without the firm in the room.
“Every recommendation we make has to survive being read out loud to the client's banker, auditor and home counsel. That single test shapes the whole firm.”
Six commitments documented in every engagement letter.
The director named on your engagement letter is the director who signs your memo. Not a senior manager you'll see once, not an associate still learning the BVI Act.
We quote in writing before we start. If scope changes, we re-quote in writing. No hourly billing, no creep, no surprise invoice on day ninety.
We know which banks open accounts for which structures in 2026, because we placed accounts there last quarter. Banking is pre-qualified before formation, not after.
Every recommendation arrives as a memorandum your auditor, your banker and your counsel can read and defend. Working-papers file retained for thirty years.
CRS, FATCA, DAC8, CARF and CFC exposure mapped in the diagnosis, before any company is incorporated. No surprises on filing day.
Our fee is your total fee. No referral splits from banks, formation agents or developers. The recommendation is yours, not theirs.
Recognised by the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards, an independent international scheme covering advisory, legal and financial services across more than 100 jurisdictions.
Two offices, across Asia and Europe.
Bring us your hardest question.
Forty-eight hours to know whether we are the right fit. Five days to put the answer in writing.