The first conversation.
One address, read by the people who would do the work.
CONTACT
The first conversation.
A first conversation is bounded, and we say what it contains before it starts. It is also the only step we can take before we have seen a file.
What it contains.
- The problems we can already identify.
- The risks visible in the position as it stands.
- The method, and the sequence it runs in.
- The professionals the work would take, and in which jurisdictions.
- The class of outcome achievable, and what would have to be true for it.
What it does not contain.
It does not deliver the operative design. Jurisdictions, entities, flows, banking arrangements and the sequence of steps are the work itself.
They follow documentary verification and a signed engagement, because a design produced before verification is a guess with a letterhead on it.
No verdict on a counterparty is given in it either. A verdict is the product of a file, and the file does not exist yet.
What is useful to send.
Three lines are enough: the transaction or the position, the jurisdictions involved, and what is about to happen and by when.
Do not send documents in a first email. Nothing confidential should travel before there is a reason for it to, and at that point we will say how.
Where we are.
Dubai. Miami. Warsaw.
Correspondence reaches all three at one address. The work itself is conducted where the counterparties, the registers and the banks are.
That is often none of the three, which is why the cities describe where we stand and not where a file is worked.
The perimeter.
We are not a law firm and not an authorized intermediary. Opinions reserved to licensed professionals are given by them, in the jurisdiction they are licensed in, over their own signature.
The first conversation is the same whether it leads to an engagement or not. That is the point of bounding it.