Polaris Bridge advises founders and management teams in Lusophone Africa, Brazil and Latin America on the structuring, banking and commercial work required to trade in the United Kingdom and the European Union — and stays with the engagement until it is operating.
Most expansions fail in administration, not in the market. A company with genuine demand in London can lose a year to the wrong entity, a declined bank application and a payment stack that will not settle in sterling.
The commercial case was rarely the constraint. What was missing was someone who had done the sequence before, in the right order, with an understanding of both ends of it — the market you are leaving as well as the one you are entering.
We treat market entry as three stages with a fixed order: structure, then banking, then demand. Each is scoped, priced and delivered before the next begins, so you always know what you have bought and what remains.
The right entity chosen, the paperwork prepared, and the filings calendar that follows it.
From £2,400, fixed
Scope & feesAccounts that open, and a payment stack that settles.
From £3,200, fixed
Scope & feesA commercial position built for a British buyer, then the media to feed it.
From £5,500, fixed
Scope & feesEvery engagement begins with the same diagnostic and ends with a written handover. You are told at the outset what each stage costs, what it produces and how long it takes. Where something is outside our remit — regulated tax, immigration, litigation — we say so and introduce someone who holds the licence.
A sixty-minute diagnostic, then a written route map. Jurisdiction, structure, banking exposure, and the order the work has to happen in. No charge, and no obligation to continue.
The entity is formed, registered and documented — including the paperwork banks will ask for later, prepared before they ask for it.
Accounts opened, payments settling, contracts in place, and the first commercial motion live in the destination market.
A filings calendar that is actually kept, media managed against agreed metrics, and a written monthly report. Or a clean handover to your own team.
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Three structures, three very different consequences for tax, banking and how you are read by a British counterparty. A practical comparison for overseas founders.
Why applications are declined on documents rather than economics, and what a compliance team is actually reading when it assesses your file.
The filings, deadlines and registrations that follow incorporation — and the ones overseas founders most often discover late.
A sixty-minute call, at no cost and with no obligation. If there is a fit, you receive a written scope and a fixed fee within five working days.