BNO Partners was founded in 2014 to do one thing well: move private clients and family offices across borders — legally, cleanly, and without the surprises that derail most applications. We work only on residence, citizenship, and the corporate structures that sit underneath them. That narrow focus is the point. We do not also sell property, manage portfolios, or run a brokerage on the side; the firm exists to give one honest answer to one hard question — where, and how, a family can establish a second jurisdiction without later regret.
The firm grew out of a simple observation: the most common reason an investment-migration application fails has nothing to do with the applicant's eligibility. It fails because the file was assembled in pieces — a developer here, a local agent there, an accountant who was never consulted — and the gaps between those parties were never closed. We were built to close them. In the years since, we have advised across eleven jurisdictions and structured well over four hundred million euros of qualifying capital, growing entirely through clients who came back and the people they referred.
Every engagement starts with an eligibility assessment, not a sales pitch. If a program does not fit your objective, your tax position, or your timeline, we say so plainly. When it does fit, we run the file end to end — dossier, due diligence, approval, banking, and renewal — to the standard the program demands. We would rather lose a fee than put forward an application we are not confident will stand up to a serious due-diligence review, because a refusal follows an applicant across programs and is far more expensive than the work it would have taken to get it right.
We take no commission from developers or program agents. Our advisory fee is disclosed before work begins and is the only way we are paid, which keeps our recommendations honest. Conflicts, where they exist, are disclosed rather than buried, and confidentiality is treated as a professional obligation, not a marketing promise — the information families share with us never becomes part of a sales pipeline.
The firm is headquartered in Vienna, with working presences in Singapore and Dubai that put advisers close to the Asian and Gulf clients we serve. Our coverage spans the Caribbean and Pacific citizenship programs — including Vanuatu and Dominica — alongside EU and Gulf residence routes such as Portugal and the United Arab Emirates, and the holding structures that hold them together. In each jurisdiction we coordinate qualified local counsel rather than pretend to practise law everywhere, so the advice you act on is always given by someone licensed to give it.