Our workstreams
We compare location and market scenarios, structure costs and investment and define future decision and reporting lines. Required legal, tax and local assessments are coordinated.
Consulting
Internationalisation & structures
Structure international projects commercially and coordinate specialist advisers.
Your tangible deliverables
- Comparison of market and location options
- Commercial structure and decision papers
- Coordination of external legal and tax advisers
Legal, tax and other regulated services are provided by appropriately qualified external specialists where required.
Discuss a projectWhen we help. What we work on.
What we need to begin
Target markets, planned activities, customer and supply flows, investment envelope and existing entity structure. Existing internal and external advisers are involved early.
How progress is measured
Comparable options, explicit assumptions, clear responsibilities and fulfilment of agreed launch conditions. A structure is not assessed on a single cost advantage.
Anonymised client projects
Six locations. One structured basis for a decision.
Six production locations in Eastern Europe were compared while pursuing a European production contract.
Black Darter® assessed labour costs, location advantages, tax considerations and customer proximity. With tax-adviser involvement, a concept for establishing a European holding company was also developed.
A location comparison using common criteria and a holding and tax-structure concept to support the next decision.
View references ↗Decision guide
Compare locations with explicit exclusion criteria
Weights alone do not make a location decision sound. Define mandatory requirements before scoring options.
- Customer supply
- Check required delivery frequency, transit time, inventory and start date against customer demand.
- Ramp-up and capacity
- Verify space, energy, permits, skills and recruitment using reliable evidence.
- Total costs
- Model wages alongside productivity, ancillary costs, logistics, start-up investment and financing.
- Corporate structure
- Coordinate contracts, financing and holding arrangements with the responsible legal and tax advisers.
The decision brief shows assumptions, sources, open questions and risks for each location. A favourable score must not conceal a failed mandatory requirement.