Work With Us
For over 40 years, Southpac Group has been a trusted partner to attorneys, CPAs, and professional service providers worldwide, delivering premier offshore asset protection and estate planning solutions.
Whether you are well-versed in offshore services or looking to expand your expertise, our team is dedicated to supporting you in enhancing the value you bring to your clients.
Why Partner with Southpac Group?
Southpac Group has built a solid foundation over 40+ years, trailblazing the offshore financial services industry in the mid-90’s and earning a reputation for excellence in offshore asset protection and estate planning. Our long-standing presence in the industry signifies reliability and trustworthiness, making us a preferred choice for professionals looking to enhance their service offerings.
Our team comprises seasoned professionals with extensive expertise in the intricacies of offshore structures and asset protection strategies. This depth of knowledge empowers us to deliver tailored educational resources that help you craft comprehensive solutions designed to meet the specific needs of your clients. We are committed to ensuring that your practice is equipped with the insights and tools necessary to confidently offer our products, enhancing the value you provide to your clients while strengthening your position as a trusted advisor in the field of asset protection and estate planning.
While our service offerings are in the Cook Islands, Nevis, and New Zealand, our professional network extends across all continents. Southpac Group provides a comprehensive suite of services designed to meet the needs of a diverse international clientele. Our expansive reach enables us to assist partners and their clients in navigating the complexities of offshore planning, regardless of their geographical location.
Partnering with Southpac enables attorneys, CPAs, and advisors to expand their offerings and provide clients with robust solutions that enhance their financial security. Our offshore services can seamlessly integrate into your existing practice, helping you differentiate your services and attract new clients.
Southpac offers a tiered pricing structure for referrers, rewarding partners based on the number of clients referred. This structure ensures fair compensation and encourages long-term collaboration. By referring more clients, partners can access enhanced benefits, including higher referral fees and additional support resources. Our goal is to create mutually beneficial relationships that support both your business and the clients you introduce to Southpac.
Let’s work together
By collaborating with Southpac, you gain access to decades of proven strategies, specialized knowledge, and personalized support that elevate your practice and strengthen client relationships.
Benefits for Professional Partners
Partnering with Southpac Group offers numerous advantages to attorneys, CPAs, and other professionals, enabling you to expand your service offerings and build stronger client relationships while benefiting from new revenue opportunities.
Access to Expertise
Gain direct access to Southpac’s extensive knowledge base and network. Our team is available to provide insights and best practices, helping you confidently advise clients on complex offshore matters.
Revenue Opportunities
Through our partnership, you can benefit from referral fees and revenue-sharing arrangements. By referring clients to Southpac, you create a new income stream for your practice while offering them exceptional service and support.
Customized Support and Training
Navigating offshore services can be complex; however, our team has developed a number of professional service providers and equipped them with the essential knowledge and skills needed to succeed in this dynamic landscape.
Enhanced Client Relationships
By offering specialized offshore services, you can strengthen your relationships with clients. Clients value a one-stop solution, allowing you to meet more of their needs and deepen their loyalty to your practice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Section 1: Southpac’s Products and Jurisdictions
What products does Southpac offer?
Southpac can help you establish a trust, limited liability company, international business company or foundation in either the Cook Islands or Nevis. We also offer New Zealand Foreign Trusts.
Other services we can provide include:Â corporate managers and directors; trust protectors; foundation council members and enforcers; nominee members and shareholders; and accounting services.
Why does Southpac offer products in the Cook Islands, Nevis and New Zealand?
The Cook Islands and Nevis have some of the strongest asset protection trust laws in the world. They also offer flexible and protective international companies, limited liability companies and foundations and have robust privacy laws.
New Zealand foreign trusts provide an opportunity for clients to benefit from the economic and political stability and trusted reputation of New Zealand as a base to manage their assets, without the imposition of New Zealand tax on non-New Zealand sourced income.
What makes the Cook Islands and Nevis asset protection laws so strong?
Assets placed into a Cook Islands or Nevis trust before anyone has a reason to sue you are completely protected from unknown future creditors. Even if a potential creditor has a cause of action against you when you settle the trust, they will need to bring proceedings in the Cook Islands or Nevis within 1–2 years. In these proceedings they need prove to a court beyond reasonable doubt that your principal intent in setting up the trust was to defraud them and that setting up the trust left you unable to pay them. Neither the Cook Islands nor Nevis recognise foreign judgments, and the Cook Islands, Nevis and New Zealand do not recognise forced heirship legislation either. If you live in a forced heirship jurisdiction then establishing a trust with Southpac can provide you with the freedom to leave your assets to whoever you want to on your death.
LLCs in both the Cook Islands and Nevis have strong protective features, with Nevis LLCs also enjoying the fraudulent transfer provisions found in its trust laws. Any creditor wishing to attack the membership interest of an LLC must bring proceedings in the Cook Islands or Nevis and the sole remedy available is a non-renewable charging order which expires after 3-5 years and does not empower the creditor to exercise any powers or control enjoyed by members.
If you are tax resident in a jurisdiction which does not recognise trusts, both the Cook Islands and Nevis have enshrined strong asset protection features similar to those found in the trust legislation in their foundation laws.
A 15-minute presentation by our Group General Manager of the products we offer in the Cook Islands and its advantages as a jurisdiction is available here. Many of these advantages are also available in Nevis.
What is the difference between an IBC and an LLC?
The principal differences between an International Business Company (IBC) and a Limited Liability Company (LLC) relate to flexibility and tax treatment. IBCs generally have their own separate identity for tax purposes, whereas LLCs are treated as passthrough entities in many jurisdictions (including the US), with tax liability passing through to their members. LLCs are generally regarded as being more flexible and easy to operate, as membership interests can be divided, shared and transferred with relative ease. The situation is more complex with IBCs as additional shares need to be issued. IBCs are generally more heavily regulated than LLCs. In the Cook Islands, IBCs which are tax-resident in the Cook Islands are liable for tax there whereas LLCs are not.
Section 2: Partnering with Southpac
Do I need to have experience in offshore services to become a referrer?
No prior experience is necessary. Southpac provides all the resources and expertise you need to understand our services and confidently present them to your clients.
How do I sign up as a referrer?
You can start by reaching out to our team through the contact form on our website. We will guide you through the onboarding process and provide all necessary resources.
Are there any legal or compliance concerns with referring clients to Southpac?
Southpac operates in strict compliance with international regulations. We conduct due diligence on all clients and ensure all services align with global compliance standards.
Section 3: About Southpac Group
How long has Southpac been in business?
Southpac Group has been providing offshore asset protection and estate planning solutions for over 40 years. Since 1982, we have been a leader in offshore financial services, offering expertise and innovative solutions to clients worldwide.
What makes Southpac different from other offshore service providers?
Our longevity, deep industry expertise, and commitment to client security set us apart. We focus on providing high-quality, compliant, and effective asset protection solutions backed by a team of experienced professionals.
Where is Southpac headquartered?
Southpac has offices in the Cook Islands, Nevis, and New Zealand, allowing us to provide jurisdictional flexibility and robust offshore solutions tailored to client needs.
Does Southpac work with clients worldwide?
Yes. Our services are available to clients across the globe, and we have a professional network spanning multiple continents to support our international client base.