During difficult eocnomic times such as the present, business priorities tend to shift towards asset protection and preservation.

For business entities this might include:

• Terminating or restructuring non-profitable or cash draining business activities;
• Asset transfers to and from business entities;
• Business acquisitions and sales;
• Share capital restructuring;
• Tax loss optimization and trading;
• Tax reorganizations;
• Insolvency planning; 
• Tax planning and tax settlements;
• Business refinancing in equity or debt;
• Creditor negotiations and arrangements;

For corporate shareholders and business owners this might include:

• Personal asset protection through asset protection trusts and other asset transfers;
• Avoiding director liabilities;
• New shareholder agreements;
• Withdrawals and intercorporate distributions of corporate surpluses;
• Estate planning;
• Securing shareholder loans to corporations;
• Tax planning for shareholder loan and advances; 
• Strategic use of holding corporations.