Entity Formation
Comprehensive support to get your corporate entity up and running quickly
What are Entity Formation services?
The process of establishing a corporate entity isn’t easy, especially when missteps can open the door to future risk. Alter Domus’ dedicated onboarding teams combine diligence, accuracy, and efficiency so you can get to business faster — confident everything has been set up accurately from the start. We know your business and your timelines, and we manage every step.
Get up and running faster
Simplify your set-up
A specialist team will support you at each stage of the entity formation process. They’ll help you get everything in place without delay, including service agreements, bank accounts, and FATCA Classification and Certification. And they’ll ensure you’re meeting regulatory filing requirements.
Cut through the clutter
Leave the intricacies of preparing core constitutional documents to us, so you can focus on your fund.
Avoid risk
Entity formation is an intense process that requires meticulous detail. With Alter Domus by your side, you can be confident that we know the steps. We also perform periodic KYC reviews to further ensure compliance.
Get help wherever you are
A single, dedicated team will drive the process, so you’ll always know where to go for answers. Your centralized team understands your industry standards and requirements, ensuring a consistent approach from day one.
Leverage our connections
Our relationships with key banking partners in your industry means operational efficiencies from the start.
All the details, none of the delays
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Contact us today to learn more about Alter Domus’ Entity Formation services.
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Corporate Services
Tailored solutions, providing you freedom to focus on strategy and maximizing returns
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What are Corporate Services?
With the increase in regulatory oversight, corporate administration is more painstaking than ever. Daily demands often divert resources that could be better used managing strategy and investments.
Our range of corporate services cover all stages of the entity lifecycle, from establishment to SPV administration, so you can focus on what matters most. With in-depth experience in key jurisdictions worldwide, we ensure you meet compliance requirements today and in the future. We know your business, your jurisdiction, and how to streamline your operations.
Comprehensive support to relieve daily burdens
Expand your network through ours
We provide access to the leading structuring and asset-level jurisdictions.
Get local expertise, anywhere
Our thousands of experts know the requirements of local markets — we’ll meet your needs and help you maintain compliance.
Achieve tech-enabled speed and scale
Our proprietary market-leading platforms give you a competitive edge while ensuring your data stays safe and communication is always private and secure.
Outsource or migrate administration at any point
Whether you’re launching a fund structure with SPVs or well-established, we’ll make turning over entity administration seamless and easy.
Get in touch with our corporate services team
Contact us today to learn more about Corporate Services.
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Depositary Services
Effective safekeeping, oversight, and cashflow monitoring for your fund
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What are Depositary Services?
To meet regulatory requirements, every investment fund within the scope of the AIFMD must appoint an independent depositary to oversee its assets. To ensure smooth and efficient interactions with your core business, it’s crucial to select a depositary with processes and tools dedicated to the alternatives industry, and with deep knowledge of each asset class — from private equity or real estate to private debt or fund of funds (FOF). Alter Domus provides Depositary Services in Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
A full-service solution to protect investors’ interests
Strong, adapted process
We tailor our processes to suit the specific needs of diverse asset classes, eliminating inefficiencies and ensuring smooth operations for your fund.
Stay focused on core business
We know our strengths, and you know yours. We protect your assets by meeting every oversight, cash monitoring, and safekeeping requirement, so you can focus on asset management.
Trust tailor-made technology
We tailor our tools to meet specific requirements of the alternative industry.
Put experience to work
Our specialists have expertise in all alternative investment asset classes. They know private equity, real assets, and debt capital markets.
Work with strength
Alter Domus is the world’s largest non-bank depositary, with more than 460 funds and $150 billion in assets under depositary. We know our business and yours.
Get in touch with our depositary services team
Contact us today to learn more about our Depositary Services.
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AIFM Services Ireland
The only provider of third-party AIFM Services in Ireland dedicated to servicing private assets
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What are AIFM Ireland Services?
To efficiently target a European investor base, an EU Alternative Investment Fund is required. Every European AIF is required to appoint an Alternative Investment Fund Manager. Setting up an AIFM can be time-consuming and costly, and it can distract from the essential task of raising and investing capital. By providing everything from pre-launch services to regulatory reporting, Alter Domus enables speed to market without sacrificing quality. Domiciling in Ireland also allows non-European investment managers to access the EU investor base.
Sector expertise reduces time to market
Ireland as a jurisdiction
Ireland is a popular jurisdiction for attracting European investors. With both partnership and corporate fund structures alongside a reputable regulatory landscape, it is perceived extremely positively in the market.
Improve your operating model
Our sector experts focus solely on private assets. They know structures, understand valuation, and create operating model efficiency.
Get bespoke support
No production line responses here. We provide solutions tailored to your structure, set-up, and requirements.
A dedicated team saves time
Your team will be led by a single point of contact for easier access to information and help.
A fully integrated solution
With affiliate firms, administration, transfer agency, and depositary services all from a single provider, you’ll gain both time and cost efficiencies.
Efficiently access EU investors
Get in touch with our team
Contact us today to learn more about Alter Domus’ AIFM Services in Ireland.
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AIFM Services Luxembourg
Your gateway to EU investors from anywhere in the world
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What are AIFM Services?
To safeguard assets, every European alternative investment fund requires professional management. But setting up an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) is time-consuming and costly, especially if you don’t know the regulatory landscape, and it can distract from the essential task of raising and investing capital. By providing tailored solutions from pre-launch services to regulatory reporting, Alter Domus keeps you moving forward. Domiciling in Luxembourg also allows non-European investment managers to access the EU investor base.
Bespoke AIFM services, from onboarding to business-as-usual
Domicile in Luxembourg for EU reach
Alter Domus’ AIFM services provide efficient and cost-effective access to European fundraising and marketing.
Get support from the start
Hit the ground running. We provide turnkey pre-launch support, including helping you select fund structures and jurisdiction.
Find interested investors
Our pre-marketing activities include facilitating early-stage conversations with prospective investors, saving you time and effort.
Reduce risk
We’ll ensure you meet SFDR, fund delegate, and other requirements and fulfill all regulatory reporting obligations.
Build a sustainable future in Luxembourg
Get in touch with AIFM Luxembourg our team
Contact us today to learn more about Alter Domus’ AIFM Services in Luxembourg.
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AIFM Services
Unlock your EU potential, faster and with less operational and regulatory risk
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$90bn
Assets under management
170+
Alternative asset funds serviced
Your entry point to the European investor base
The AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive), a European Union (EU) regulation, requires EU domiciled AIFs to appoint an Alternative Investment Fund Manager. While there’s no getting around this requirement, Alter Domus can make the process less onerous and reduce time to market through our third-party AIFM services. Our experts provide a comprehensive slate of services, from turnkey pre-launch to day-to-day marketing, to help you reach target EU investors no matter where you are.
AIFM Services customized to accelerate your success
Portfolio management
We offer delegated or retained portfolio management services to EU and non-EU regulated managers or investment advisors.
Risk management
We ensure your compliance with regulations such as SFDR and fund delegate requirements, minimizing risks and enhancing investor trust.
Valuation
Accurate valuation of assets enhances transparency, supporting confident decision-making and investor confidence.
Compliance
We navigate complex regulatory landscapes, guaranteeing your operations adhere to all relevant rules and guidelines.
Regulatory reporting
Our efficient reporting procedures keep you and your investors informed, while helping you meet regulatory requirements seamlessly.
Marketing and distribution
We’ll help you expand your reach to EU investors, while ensuring materials comply with set guidelines.
Service Overview
Timely, expert solutions for complicated, resource-intensive tasks
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Run more efficiently, achieve more goals through premium services
In-house administration requires extensive knowledge, investment in resources, and the right technology. When you partner with Alter Domus, you remove operational burdens. We’ve got the people, processes, and systems to handle complex details and communications, ensuring you meet investor demands and remain compliant across jurisdictions.
360-degree support
Draw on global expertise
Put the best knowledge base to work for you. With more than 5,000 experts worldwide, Alter Domus understands your market, your fund, and your requirements and delivers fit-for-purpose solutions.
Concentrate on your competencies
We’ll take on the day-to-day so you can focus on strategy and performance.
Allocate resources to build your business
Outsourcing lets you reduce administrative payroll and allocate more money to revenue-producing centers.
Leverage the right technology
Having the right technology is key to properly managing assets. Our technology suite ensures that you always have the right platform for your fund, and that everything remains private and secure.
Grow with a trusted resource
We’ve been in the market more than 20 years. Over that time, we’ve worked with every type of alternative asset, built lasting relationships, and scaled as our clients have grown. You can trust our expertise.
Capital Administration
A scalable solution for waterfall calculations and carried interest allocations, enabling you to analyze and leverage your data
What is Capital Administration?
Reporting accuracy is everything, but spreadsheets can only take you so far, especially when you’re trying to manage complicated waterfall and carry structures. Our fully automated CapAssure platform provides a deeper understanding of your financial processes, with advanced reporting at the portfolio, investor, deal, GP member, or even tax lot level. Our Capital Administration team has onboarded more than 150 funds from $150M to $20B in assets under management.
Streamlining complexity throughout your fund’s lifecycle
Ensure accuracy and auditability
Your data becomes a digitized source of truth within a secure, resilient platform compliant with your fund’s LPA.
Tailored waterfall calculations and carry plan allocation recommendations
Through our in-depth LPA analysis, we can recommend the most suitable methods to structure your waterfall and carry plans.
Powerful forecasting capabilities
Forecasting capabilities that allow you to project out fund performance at the level of granularity required to manage complex, dynamic businesses.
Better solutions, now
Over the past two decades, we’ve developed a library of steps to nearly eliminate coding times, swiftly build waterfall structures, and help execute the onboarding processes efficiently.
Avoid the “black box” opacity
Our customer portal provides transparency so you’ll see and understand inputs, calculations, and amounts at a granular level.
High-value solutions mean savings
We deliver consistent, complex calculations, saving you the expense of developing in-house solutions.
Support you know and trust
You’ll work with the same dedicated team throughout the fund’s lifecycle. That’s our guarantee of personalized service.
Eliminate operational complexity
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Contact us today to learn more about Alter Domus’ Capital Administration services.
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Transfer Pricing
Ensuring Transfer Pricing compliance, wherever you are
What is Transfer Pricing?
It is a complicated accounting practice with steep compliance requirements, especially for cross-jurisdictional funds. However, the benefits are significant when managed correctly. We’ll help you manage your transactions to optimize investor returns and protect the sale value of assets while reducing audit risk.
Transfer Pricing support to help you minimize tax burdens
Comply with every rule
Have one team across Europe who knows all the rules, so you are always in compliance.
Have confidence in deal economics
Our expertise ensures that your transactions will optimize investment returns consistent with projections.
Reduce divestment and deal-closing risk
Potential liabilities can surface during due diligence. We provide support to minimize risk to sellers and buyers.
Get the answers you need, now
We provide timely responses whenever there’s a question.
Be prepared for audits
Reduce the worry associated with audit readiness and defense.
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Tax Services
High-confidence tax reporting and compliance to meet all your requirements
What are Tax Services?
With the tax regulatory landscape evolving faster than ever, compliance is a moving target. We’ll help you adhere to every requirement at the local and national level, meeting all tax return obligations accurately and on time. You won’t have to monitor the rules — we do that day-by-day. We work closely with your tax advisor and provide all the support you need to keep you in compliance. And although we don’t provide tax advice, you will have our full support if you’re ever audited.
Personalized tax support that improves efficiency and reduces risk
Remain compliant
Whether you’re in the US, APAC, or Europe, our global expertise and knowledge of ever-changing regulations reduces your compliance burden.
Save time and effort
Keep your people focused on core business activities, not on mounds of tax paperwork or navigating through a regulatory maze.
Draw on our specialist knowledge
We work seamlessly with your internal departments. You don’t need to hire a full-time team for seasonal or occasional tasks.
Tax compliance made easy
Get in touch with our team
Contact us today to learn more about our Tax Services.
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