Delivering trusted advisory and access to expertise and opportunities through our privileged networks.
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Our Foundation
Why Ermes
Ermes was born from a simple observation: entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, HNWIs and family offices are increasingly operating globally, across jurisdictions, across generations.
Yet advice and opportunities often arrive in fragments. Complexity multiplies. Delays compound. And what they consume, above all, is time.
Ermes exists to change that. We meet each client where they stand.
Three ways we serve
Alongside
Where trusted advisers are already in place
We work alongside them — bringing our unique network, access and opportunities built and tested over decades.
Orchestrate
Where advisers exist but operate in silos
We orchestrate — ensuring seamless service, efficient use of resources, and a single point of coordination across every moving part.
Build
Where no network yet exists
We build one — assembling the trusted web of partners and counsel that each client needs to pursue their ambitions with confidence.
In every mode, the promise is the same: structures, strategy and people that speak to one another, work together, and enable each client to achieve what truly matters to them.
“We do not sit across the table from our clients. We sit beside them — in the same boat, with the same horizon. Their wins are ours, their ambitions our cause. The relationships we build are measured in years and generations, not engagements.”
Founder and Chairperson
Methodology
The ERMES Approach
Absolute Discretion
In an era of total visibility, we operate as the silent guardian. Our engagement models are built on a bedrock of confidentiality, ensuring strategic movements remain private until realization.
Precision Strategy
We do not offer generic solutions. Every framework is engineered to the specific jurisdictional, fiscal, and personal requirements of our clients.
Global Architecture
Our network is our strength. We leverage deep-rooted relationships across numerous jurisdictions to provide seamless cross-border services and access.
Capabilities
Our Four Pillars
Global Legal Conciergerie
On-demand access to vetted legal expertise across jurisdictions. We maintain a curated network of specialist counsel in key markets and sectors, and serve as the coordinating interface.
Value Delivery
- Cost efficiency through negotiated rates and avoidance of duplicative work
- Strategic oversight ensuring legal work aligns with broader objectives
- A single, trusted point of coordination across advisors
Scope of Services
Cross-border M&A coordination, immigration and citizenship applications, real estate acquisitions in multiple jurisdictions, dispute resolution and litigation management, intellectual property protection and licensing, inheritance planning and estate administration through our collaboration with Dentons.
Structuring & Tax Coordination
Coordination of cross-border tax and corporate structures for corporates, entrepreneurs and families. Working with licensed fiduciary providers and tax advisors in each jurisdiction, Ermes acts as the orchestrating interface — convening the right specialists, aligning their work to client objectives, and providing institutional continuity across the engagement.
Value Delivery
- Coordinated structuring across jurisdictions, end to end
- Risk mitigation through compliant, defensible structures
- Structures that adapt as the business grows, expands and transacts
Scope of Services
Coordination of holding company design for multi-jurisdictional assets and operating businesses, entity formation and ownership architecture, tax residency planning, pre-transaction structuring for capital raises and exits, and corporate governance frameworks.
Family Office Support
Institutional support for principals and family offices coordinating generational wealth. We extend the capacity of in-house teams and provide the structure typically found in family offices — coordinating advisors, maintaining institutional knowledge, and reinforcing family governance.
Value Delivery
- A single point of accountability across all advisors and jurisdictions
- Institutional memory and continuity across generations
- Decisions made with the family's long-term cohesion in mind
- Time and attention released back to principals
Scope of Services
Multi-advisor coordination and oversight, family governance and constitutional frameworks, succession planning across generations, introductions to licensed trustees and protectors, family education programmes on wealth stewardship, strategic planning for family enterprises and foundations.
Lifestyle & Access
The art of living well, curated with the same precision as wealth itself. From the residence chosen for the season to the table reserved without question, Ermes orchestrates the texture of daily life — discreet, considered, and entirely yours.
Value Delivery
- A single trusted interlocutor for the rhythm of family life across continents
- Curated access to private clubs, ateliers, residences and tables otherwise closed
- Discretion and privacy upheld at every touchpoint, by design
- Anticipation of needs across travel, health, schooling and celebration
- Time returned to clients — the rarest luxury, quietly restored
Scope of Services
Private aviation and yacht coordination, residence and estate management, longevity and wellness retreats, art and collectibles advisory, bespoke travel and experiential journeys, family events and milestone curation, education and schooling introductions, personal security and household staff.
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