BNO Partners advises companies operating across jurisdictions on the obligations that follow from doing so — tax compliance and digital reporting, corporate and holding structures, counterparty and sanctions risk, and exposure created by international operations — together with the private-client residence and citizenship work that arises alongside them. The focus is deliberately narrow. We do not resell software, take vendor commission, or run a brokerage on the side.
The firm grew out of a recurring observation: the problems that cost most are rarely the ones anyone was assigned to watch. A compliance obligation follows a VAT registration the tax team did not know existed. A holding structure was designed carefully for an operating footprint that has since moved. A supplier was screened thoroughly at onboarding and never again, and its ownership changed two years later. Each of these sits in the gap between advisers who never speak to one another. We were built to hold those threads in a single mandate.
Every engagement starts with a position assessment, not a sales pitch. Where an existing arrangement is already sound, we say so plainly rather than manufacturing a project. Where it is not, we set out what is genuinely at risk, what is theoretical, and what remediation realistically costs. We would rather lose a fee than put forward work we are not confident will withstand examination — because in this area an arrangement that fails review is considerably more expensive than the work it would have taken to get right.
We take no commission from software vendors, service providers, or programme agents. Our advisory fee is disclosed before work begins and is the only way we are paid, which keeps recommendations honest. Conflicts, where they exist, are disclosed rather than buried, and confidentiality is treated as a professional obligation rather than a marketing promise — information clients share with us does not become part of a sales pipeline.
The firm is headquartered in Vienna, with working presences in Singapore and Dubai that put advisers closer to Asian and Gulf clients. In every jurisdiction we coordinate qualified local counsel rather than pretending to practise everywhere, so the advice a client acts on is always given by someone licensed to give it. What we contribute is the cross-jurisdiction view that no single local adviser is positioned to hold.
Regulatory requirements in this field change frequently, and implementation timetables move — sometimes at short notice. Everything published on this site is general reference material rather than advice, and anything that matters to a decision should be verified against current official sources at the time the decision is made. Our insights are written to that standard: structural where structures are stable, explicitly provisional where they are not.