BKS Family Office Limited

Overview

BKS Family Office Limited is recorded as a Jersey overseas entity governed by Jersey law.¹ The company is registered in Jersey under company number OE020636 and registration number 102038.¹ BKS states that it is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission for trust company business and fund services business under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998.⁶

BKS Corporate Services is a registered trade name of BKS Family Office Limited under registration number 29386.¹⁰ The brochure describes BKS as an owner managed group based in Jersey, Channel Islands, serving local and international clients with professional, financial and administrative services.⁹

History

Companies House records BKS Family Office Limited as registered on 31 January 2023.³ The company’s persons with significant control records list Chris Bevan as an active beneficial owner with more than 25 percent share ownership.⁴ Paul Martin Sinel is also listed as an active beneficial owner with more than 25 percent share ownership.⁵

Timeline

1. 1998BKS states that it is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission for trust company business and fund services business under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998.
2. 2023Companies House records BKS Family Office Limited as registered on 31 January 2023.

Leadership

Chris Bevan is listed by Companies House as an active beneficial owner of BKS Family Office Limited.⁴ Paul Martin Sinel is listed by Companies House as an active beneficial owner of BKS Family Office Limited.⁵

Services

BKS defines its services as acting or providing trustees, nominees, council members, guardians, directors and shareholders, together with administration of a managed entity.⁷ The firm says it is licensed to provide trustee and corporate services.¹¹

Its corporate services include company formation, director services, company secretarial work, administration, bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, management accounting, nominee shareholders, registered office facilities, liquidations and dissolutions, and shareholder agreements.¹⁷

BKS reports experience with commercial property vehicles, private equity investments, limited partnership and limited liability partnership structures, special purpose structures, asset or investment portfolio holding companies, employment or consultancy service companies with international payroll, private trust companies, managed trust companies, protected cell companies and trading companies.¹⁸

The firm identifies experience with commercial, residential and development site property holding structures.¹³ It also says it understands reporting requirements for audited funds and stock exchange listed businesses.¹⁴ BKS reports experience with large corporate structures used for inward investment in and outside the United Kingdom.¹²

The brochure names Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Guernsey, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg and Switzerland among jurisdictions where BKS operates asset holding and trading companies.¹²

What the firm offers

• Trust and fiduciary
• Administration and bill pay
• Private and alternative investments
• Cross-border planning

Client focus

BKS says it serves local and international clients.⁹ Jersey Finance describes a BKS case involving a prominent Saudi based family that established a private trust company structure for international assets and succession planning.²⁰ The structure included a Jersey Purpose Trust, a Jersey trustee company, underlying family trusts, trading business shares, real estate, land, investment portfolios and works of art.²¹²²

Investment philosophy and approach

BKS states that its objective is to provide professional and cost effective service aligned with client requirements, supported by a close working relationship based on good faith.⁸ The firm says it prefers to work directly with clients to develop and maintain a trusted business relationship.¹⁵

Its stated philosophies include direct and long lasting business relationships, proactive service, engagement specific teams, integrity and transparency, informality combined with professionalism, and equal respect for all engagements.¹⁹ BKS says its pricing preference is for pre agreed fees intended to provide fee certainty.¹⁸

In the Jersey Finance case, family members and advisers joined the trustee company board with BKS, giving the family greater participation in decisions aligned with its objectives and succession plan.²³

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