A boutique firm in Nassau quietly structuring protection for families who cannot afford to be reached — by a court, by a headline, by a political accident.
We speak privately with a narrow set of principals — the pattern, not your passport, is what matters to us.
You live in the Gulf, Europe or North America. You've earned the kind of optionality that makes a second residency, a second bank and a second jurisdiction a serious conversation — not a fantasy.
Your patrimony outgrew the structure that holds it. Lawsuits, disclosure regimes, political shifts, currency controls — you've seen enough to know that what worked at ten million does not hold at fifty.
You are building something your children will inherit. You have thought seriously about what happens if, one morning, you are not there — and you want the answer to be written down, notarised and enforceable.
What follows is not a brochure. These are the three conversations we most often have across the table.
Properly settled Bahamian trusts are constituted under a legal regime engineered for exactly this purpose — a jurisdictional firewall that places protected assets outside the reach of foreign judgments. We do not sell templates; we draft each deed around the family it is built for.
Client confidentiality is not a preference we try to honour. It is codified — written into statute, enforced by regulators, and observed by a professional community that understands the difference between discretion and disclosure. We operate the same way.
A correctly drafted trust does not wait for probate, does not require a funeral, does not stall at a border. It activates exactly as instructed — continuing to pay, to educate, to protect — the moment it is needed, and not a day later.
Not marketing lines. Structural realities — the ones that decide whether a plan survives its first real test.
English common-law tradition. Continuous parliamentary governance. A judiciary whose decisions on trust matters are cited in half the jurisdictions you care about. Stability is a feature — it is not an accident.
No personal income tax. No capital gains. No inheritance, estate or gift tax. For families that measure time in generations, what a jurisdiction does not take is often worth more than what it does.
One of the longest-established private-banking corridors in the Western Hemisphere — supervised, well-capitalised, and populated by institutions that know the difference between a deposit and a relationship.
Confidentiality is not a selling point. It is a legal obligation — carried by bankers, trustees and counsel alike, enforced by regulators, and backed by a jurisdiction that has defended it for fifty years.
Not a brand department. Not a platform. The same principals who read your first email draft the final deed.
JP Advisory is a boutique firm with 40+ years of combined legal and fiduciary experience advising Family Offices, high-net-worth individuals, celebrities and entrepreneurs in over a dozen countries.
Every structure we build is bespoke — because your life is not a template. Engagements are accepted strictly by referral or direct approach, and we serve only a deliberate number of families at a time.
Three decades advising celebrities, HNW clients and Family Offices in a dozen countries. Studied at McGill (Montreal) and LMU (Munich). Structured a US $1B commercial-property refinancing in Kazakhstan; led the management buy-out of MCM. Polyglot. Former Advisor to the Ministry of Finance of St. Kitts & Nevis.
Over 25 years in Bahamian financial services. Barrister of England & Wales; attorney-at-law in Massachusetts and The Bahamas. Senior counsel at one of the premier offshore law firms. Practice focused on corporate, banking, securities and private client structures. Bahamian citizen; Olympian, 1984.
No drip campaigns. No chatbots. A real timeline, followed by real people.
A principal reads every enquiry personally. If the mandate is outside our remit, we say so — politely and quickly.
Same dayWithin two business days you receive a reply from counsel — not a template. Either we propose a discovery call, or we refer you elsewhere.
≤ 48 hoursWe listen. You tell us what you actually want protected, from whom, and by when. We outline what a structure could look like — and what it cannot.
Week 1–2If the mandate fits, we issue an engagement letter, define scope and fees, and draft the structure. Typical timelines run 4–12 weeks to fully operational.
Week 2 onwardShort, honest answers. Nuance lives in the consultation.
Yes — subject to the rules of your jurisdiction of residency. Every GCC state handles foreign holdings differently, and we work with your local tax adviser to ensure the Bahamian structure is layered compliantly with your domestic obligations. What is legal is precisely what we design for.
The Bahamas does not tax personal income, capital gains, inheritances or estates. Whether your country of residence taxes you on Bahamian holdings depends on its own rules. For most Gulf residents the answer is effectively no — but the precise answer belongs in the discovery call, not in marketing copy.
Timelines vary by bank and mandate. Straightforward individual accounts typically open in 4–8 weeks once KYC documents are complete. Corporate and trust accounts tied to structured vehicles may take longer. We introduce principals to senior private bankers we know personally — we do not broker.
For most trust and corporate structures, no — documents can be executed remotely with proper notarisation. For private-banking relationships, some institutions still require an in-person meeting. If so, we coordinate the trip end-to-end: one visit, typically one to two days.
Nationality is rarely the gating question — risk profile, source of funds and the structure being built are. GCC, EU, UK, US and LATAM passports are all routinely handled. We'll flag any issues specific to your citizenship before you commit.
No — structuring assets in The Bahamas does not, by itself, affect your existing tax residency or citizenship anywhere. If you are separately interested in Bahamian permanent residency (a distinct process), we are well placed to introduce the relevant counsel.
Most jurisdictions, including the GCC states, participate in the OECD Common Reporting Standard. Certain account balances are reported at an aggregate level to tax authorities of residency. A properly structured plan respects CRS fully — privacy and compliance are not opposites, and we don't treat them as such.
Engagement fees vary by complexity, not by headcount — a simple standalone trust differs materially from a multi-layer family structure with corporate subsidiaries. After discovery we issue a fixed-scope engagement letter with itemised fees. No hourly surprises.
Consultations are by invitation. We reply only to qualified enquiries — personally, in writing, within two business days.
A member of the firm will reply personally, in writing, within two business days.
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