Company Set-up

HELVIA FIDUCIAIRE - Swiss International Trust Company - assists its clients in the planning and organization of Establishing a Company (including start-ups of operative, trading or holding companies) or Transferring a business to the Canton of Ticino, Italian Grisons, and the rest of Switzerland. From the search for the location and premises, to the start-up/restart and consolidation of the business.

HELVIA FIDUCIAIRE understands how difficult and sometimes stressful it can be to move or relocate to a new geographical area, with different legal and institutional systems, as well as a different socio-cultural context. For this reason, we have prepared an integrated range of services to facilitate and or accelerate this extraordinary moment in the life of a company or family.

HELVIA FIDUCIAIRE provides its clients with any necessary legal, administrative, and operational information. We seek to closely support clients along their path to professional or business growth, optimizing time, resources, and energy, thus maximizing the results for the company, worker, and their family.

HELVIA FIDUCIAIRE supports its clients, their employees, and their families, in finding, renting or buying houses and cars, obtaining residence and work permits, finding schools and recreation centers, setting up insurance and social security plans and dealing with various types of administrative and legal practices.

Here are some examples of how HELVIA FIDUCIAIRE can ensure a "soft landing" of your company, family, or collaborators on Swiss territory:

• feasibility studies from the establishment or relocation of a company to the Canton of Ticino, Italian Grisons or other Cantons of Switzerland
• establishment, management and administration of a new company (NewCo) or support for the transfer of an existing company abroad
• opening of bank accounts, negotiation, and requests for credit facilities as well as management of relations with Swiss banks
• preparation, submission and negotiation of appeals with tax authoritiesli
• preparation and submission of applications for financial subsidies at cantonal and federal level
• Obtaining authorizations and dealing with the formalities of customs
• business planning, investment evaluation, financial and liquidity forecasts
• search for potential locations technical, administrative, and managerial premises for the company’s operations
• activation and optimization of utility contracts (electricity, gas, water, telephones, etc.)
• research, selection and recruitment of human capital necessary for start-up d'impresa
• partecipation in the relocation plan and settlement of businessassets
• book-keeping, closing of accounts and balance sheets as well as management control and reporting for the new Swiss company
• management of personnel practices, payroll, and social and insurance obligations of the new Swiss company
• communications and tax declarations for direct and indirect taxes, management of disputes in the Canton of Ticino, Italian Grisons, and the rest of Switzerland
• stipulation and optimization of insurance and social security policies in Switzerland
• assistance in the start-up of the company, mentoring of the new businesss and direct connection with stakeholders and the parent company
• services in Secretarial, domiciliation, and fiscal representation in Switzerland
• support in logistics, administration and operation transferring workers and their families in Switzerland
• application for residence and work permits, research and selection of homes for workers and their families, assistance in the purchase or rental of homes or cars, research and selection of schools and recreational centers, research of artisans and domestic help in the Canton of Ticino, Italian Grisons and the rest of Switzerland
• troubleshooting of various operational problems during the establishment of the company, the worker and his family in the Swiss territory