Group Profile and Services

Leaders in the Provision of … a FULL range of International Professional Services … in a number of jurisdictions …to a Global Clientele

FBS has established offices and an Official Regulatory License as a Corporate Service Provider in the UAE. FBS Emirates is part of the FBS International Group.

“FOCUS BUSINESS SERVICES (FBS) KOTSOMITIS” is a well-known and established international professional services group-network with officially licensed and regulated member / partner firms who have substantial presence in:

• the UAE – Head Office (Scroll below to see details of our Local Network Member Firms)
• Cyprus
• Malta
• The Seychelles
• Greece
• the UK

We note that the Global Head of The FBS KOTSOMITIS Network of Companies, Mr. Aris Kotsomitis, is personally a founder and main shareholder of almost all of our member / partner firms. This unique advantage is undoubtedly a guarantee of an integrated, seamless quality of service across jurisdictions setting us apart from the competition.

Group-Network services / service lines and locations

• international tax planning and corporate structuring (Mr. Kotsomitis – our Chairman and resident in Dubai as the UAE Head Office Partner – personally attends to this service line)
• asset protection advice (Mr. Kotsomitis – our Chairman and resident in Dubai as the UAE Head Office Partner – personally attends to this service line)
• wealth management (Mr. Kotsomitis – our Chairman and resident in Dubai as the UAE Head Office Partner – personally attends to this service line)
• business consulting and advisory (the Advisory Service Line is centralised in our UAE Offices)
• company and trust formation in the UAE (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah) – Head Office (not trusts for UAE), Cyprus, Malta, The Seychelles and the UK by our officially licensed and regulated local member / partner firms
• bank account opening and operation in the UAE (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah) – Head Office, Cyprus, Malta by our officially licensed and regulated local member / partner firms
• management services in the UAE – Head Office (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah) , Cyprus, Malta, The Seychelles and the UK by our officially licensed and regulated local member / partner firms
• corporate services and administration in the UAE – Head Office (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah), Cyprus, Malta, The Seychelles and the UK by  our officially licensed and regulated local member / partner firms
• accounting, tax, audit in the UAE – Head Office (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah – note NOT audit / tax in the UAE) , Cyprus, Malta, The Seychelles and the UK by our officially licensed and regulated local member / partner firms
• a wide-range of other business support services (including but not restricted to IT, Web, Virtual Offices, Serviced Offices) in the UAE – Head Office (Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah) , Cyprus, Malta and the UK
• Services as above … in other jurisdictions are also FULLY supported by our international professional associates in Belize, BVI, Channel Islands, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore, Lichtenstein and other jurisdictions.

Global Head of the FBS KOTSOMITIS Group – Network:

Aris Kotsomitis BSc FCA CPA TEP MoID

Founder and Main Shareholder of FBS KOTSOMITIS Network Regulated Local Offices in UAE, Cyprus, Malta, Seychelles, UK and Greece.

FBS UAE – Resident Managing Director of the UAE Office and Head of Corporate, Management and Business Consulting Services in the UAE (Dubai and Ras – Al – Khaimah).

FBS INTERNATIONAL – Global Head of Advisory – International Tax, Asset Protection, Wealth Management and Business Consulting Service Lines.

Aris’s Profile

Aris is 50 years old and has close to 28 years experience in the international professional services sector. He is recognized as one of the leading international tax, asset protection and wealth management experts in the EU and is a member of a number of local and international professional bodies – associations including:

ICAEW- The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales

ICPAC – The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus

STEP – The Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners

IFA – The International Fiscal Association

and others.

Aris is a graduate of The London School of Economics (UK) and a Royal Commonwealth Scholar. Following his graduation he proceeded to complete his articles with a London Big-4 firm when he attained membership to the The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW).

After 7 years, he left the UK to move to Greece where after a year of service at The Bank of Cyprus in Greece as Head of Regulatory Compliance he moved on to PricewaterhouseCoopers where he served as a Senior Manager at the Corporate Finance Dept.

For a period of 2 years he was dealing with the tax and advisory aspects of regional cross-border transactions, heading a team of 20 professionals.

In 1998 he set up the Focus Business Services Group and Network of Companies in Cyprus and specialized in providing international tax advice and setting up tax structures for a significant number of international clients.

In 2005 he setup the Seychelles operation and in 2010 the Group’s Malta operations (fully licensed providers).

In 2013 he took up residence in Dubai to head the Group’s / Network’s UAE offices in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. Nowadays he spends his time mostly between the UAE (55%), Cyprus (35%) and Malta (10%).

In his high school years, Aris was awarded the first Commonwealth Scholarships by the Queen of England for outstanding academic achievement.

Aris is a professional of considerable business acumen and although primarily an international tax expert with a specialisation in European and International tax and asset protection structures and a HNWI wealth manager, he has solid “all-round” experience in a number of areas such as law, accounting, auditing, banking (including treasury), corporate finance and management consulting. Such knowledge is of paramount importance when helping clients identify key issues in complex cases and assessing the “total impact” of a given set of actions.

His interest and his expertise is in the areas of wealth management, international tax planning – structuring, corporate law and asset protection and in particular all matters relating to the structuring and operation of international holding, finance, royalty, investment, asset protection and trading structures through European, UAE and other  entities in various jurisdictions worldwide.

UAE Network Member Firms

FBS KOTSOMITIS CORPORATE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES FZ-LLC (HEAD OFFICE)

LICENCE NO. RAKIA 74 FZ3 05 13 6681

RAKEZ TOWERS, AMENITY CENTRE

P. O. BOX- 85674, AL JAZEERA AL HAMRA

RAS AL KHAIMAH

UAE

FBS has established offices and an Official Regulatory License as a Corporate Service Provider in the UAE. FBS Emirates is part of the FBS International Group.

** Click Here to Read the Full Professional Profile of Aris Kotsomitis (main speaker) – Senior International Tax Partner, Head of the International Tax Dept. and Chairman of our Group**

The Group is headed by Aris Kotsomitis who is recognized as one of the leading international tax and asset protection experts and ewealth management consultant in the European Union.

Indicative of the increasing importance for our Group and globally in general of the UAE in international tax planning, asset protection and wealth management are the following:

•  that Mr. Kotsomitis, our Chairman, has relocated to Dubai this year and will be a permanent resident there in the long term, in order to develop the office and spearhead the expansion of the Group.
•  That our Group has decided to relocate the Group Head Office in Dubai as from 1 January 2014! The recent relocation of our Chairman is related to that.

We are an approved and regulated UAE (Dubai / Ras Al Khaimah) Corporate Services Provider (CSP) with a FULL license to provide all services throughout the UAE relating to the set-up and operation of:

1. UAE Free Zone companies and establishments in ALL the Free Zones of the UAE (as well as branches of foreign companies in the UAE)
2. UAE offshore companies (RAK offshore)
3. UAE LLCs
4. Bank account openings for the above as well as personal accounts of foreign residents and bank accounts of foreign companies
5. Management (directors), consulting, accounting, administration and all services needed to operate the above entities.

We are now OPEN for business with full infrastructure on the ground AND with the support of the “Cyprus back office” to provide the FULL range of services.

We are at this moment processing a significant number of orders for new UAE Offshore and Free Zone companies from clients who want to take advantage of the benefits of the UAE structures.

Our UAE Offices

We hold a FULL regulatory license issued by the UAE Authorities to act as a Corporate Services Provider (CSP). The name of our LICENSED firm in the UAE is “FBS KOTSOMITIS CORPORATE AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES FZ-LLC”. We operate from an operational back office at The Ras Al Khaimah Free Zone AND Dubai serviced offices, at the moment, and are handling absolutely ALL forms of business relating to the setting up and operation of UAE (RAK) Offshore Companies and Free Zone Companies in all the Free Zones of Dubai and the UAE in general.

Additionally, we are setting up a “flagship” Dubai office (for client meetings – and Dubai projects – and eventually aimed to be our Group’s Head Office and to be headed by our Chairman Mr. Kotsomitis) at the Jumeirah Lake Towers (next to Dubai Marina). This is expected to be ready to receive clients by end of September this year (2013).

We are a Well-Known and Well-Established Corporate Services Providers – Officially Licensed and Regulated by the Authorities in the EU (Cyprus and Malta – Full Trust and Foundation Licence) and the UAE (Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah) with a large number fully-fledged local offices and experienced staff in almost all professional fields.

Group Websites:

www.fbscyprus.com | www.fbsmalta.com | www.fbsemirates.com | www.fbsseychelles.com

FBS can set up UAE offshore companies and ALL forms of companies AT ALL THE FREE ZONES

We have all necessary regulatory licenses and expertise.

We provide United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah) corporate structures and bank accounts, offshore OR Free Zone companies …in ALL the Free Zones of the UAE …AND bank account opening with UAE banks for foreign individuals, Malta companies, Cyprus Companies and other foreign to UAE companies, for clients who want to:

• Use our Group’s UAE local offices and significant expertise as well as the “firepower of the Cyprus back office” to employ an effective solution outside the EU or the EU’s sphere of influence
• avoid the risk of bank deposit haircuts (EU practice, eg Cyprus) or other unexpected taxes / losses on their assets
• enjoy FULL protection relating to anonymity / bank confidentiality (The UAE is the ONLY jurisdiction not to be part of information exchange agreements (disclosing beneficiary details) with ANY other country)
• enjoy “white list” non-offshore status
• have the option to choose between Offshore non-resident companies OR Onshore Free Zone Companies with access to double-tax treaties AND possibility of multi-year residence / investor visas at minimum cost
• have the option to relocate permanently to a first-class international business hub and enjoy all the advantages, including 0% taxation
• last but not least… enjoy 0% tax with 100% problem-free repatriation potential!
• bottom-line… be in the safest, most confidential, tax exempt AND most of all booming and prestigious jurisdiction with significant geopolitical clout

Important Note:

UAE companies and bank accounts are an effective vehicle to face the EU Debt / Banking Crisis Risks (information exchange and deposit haircut risks) as the United Arab Emirates is the ONLY jurisdiction not to sign ANY information exchange agreements (disclosing beneficiary details) with ANY other country!

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