Your wealth is visible.
Your structure should be unassailable.
Successful founders, athletes, artists, and creative business owners face tax challenges that conventional advisers often fail to understand. Hervé brings direct experience in international structuring, IP-adjacent arrangements, cross-border holding vehicles, trusts, and management incentives.
You may need this advice if you are…
Your circumstances may be growing more complex. If any of these situations apply, tailored advice can help you protect, structure, and move forward with confidence.
What this advisory covers
Entrepreneurial wealth is often more exposed than it appears. Revenue may be linked to personality, image, IP, agency relationships, equity participation or international mobility. The right structure must do more than optimise. It must remain coherent, practical and defensible over time.
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Build & Hold
International holding structures
Trust, fund, or asset-holding arrangements for protection, succession planning, diversification.
Designed to support growth and protect value without losing sight of how they may later be reviewed.
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Build & Hold
Trust and investment vehicles
Trust, fund, or asset-holding arrangements for protection, succession planning, diversification.
Aligning commercial success with long-term wealth preservation and risk containment.
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Monetise & Contract
Agency and commercial agreements
Tax structuring around representation, endorsement, agency, and licensing tied to brand or talent.
The contract is one part. The tax treatment of flows, control, and characterisation is equally important
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Monetise & Contract
Management and equity incentives
Advice on management packages, growth equity, stock options, and participation structures for founders.
Often become sensitive around exits, relocation, or later scrutiny.
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Protect & Defend
Art and gallery structures
Ownership, holding, and transactional considerations for individuals in the art world and creative sectors.
Where value is mobile, reputational, and international, structures require judgement and discretion.
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Protect & Defend
Enquiries, challenges & defence
Support where structures, filings, or historic arrangements are questioned by tax authorities.
The objective: clarify facts, protect the position, respond strategically from the outset.
Representative situations may include
Why clients in entrepreneurial and creative sectors instruct Hervé Israel
Built with scrutiny in mind
The advice is shaped by first-hand understanding of how tax authorities think, assess facts and challenge structures. That matters when value is visible, international, and closely tied to the individual.
Direct senior access
Clients work directly with Hervé. There is no dilution through layers of junior handling on matters that require judgement, discretion, and nuance.
Familiarity with creative and founder realities
Entrepreneurial and creative income does not always fit standard advisory templates. Brand, visibility, mobility, personal reputation, and ownership often interact in ways that require more tailored thinking.
International, not merely local
Where income, assets, residence, contracts, or ownership touch more than one jurisdiction, the advice is built to reflect the wider picture rather than isolated domestic answers.
Discuss a structure, transaction, or tax risk confidentially
Clients usually get in touch before an expansion, a relocation, a change in ownership, a significant contract, or a moment when existing arrangements need to be reviewed. A confidential first conversation can quickly clarify the real issues and the next best step.
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