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TRANSIUMInternational Tax & Advisory
WHO WE SERVE | PRIVATE CLIENTS & FAMILY OFFICES

Private Clients, Family Offices & High-Net-Worth Individuals

Tailored cross-border wealth preservation, foreign trust architecture, global mobility planning, and multi-jurisdictional tax coordination for internationally connected families.

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Protect the wealth. Preserve the structure. Plan across generations.
§ 02

Global Wealth Becomes More Vulnerable as It Becomes More International

Families with assets, trusts, businesses, investments, and beneficiaries across multiple countries face a level of tax complexity that rarely fits neatly within one advisory relationship.

A relocation can alter tax residence. An inheritance can trigger competing tax systems. A foreign trust may create unexpected Canadian reporting. A family company may generate foreign affiliate exposure. An asset held for decades can suddenly create double taxation when transferred or sold.

TRANSIUM helps private clients and family offices coordinate those moving parts before they create unnecessary friction.

We work across mobility, trusts, estates, foreign assets, and international compliance to give families a clearer view of how their wealth is structured, taxed, reported, and ultimately transferred.

The objective is not simply tax efficiency.

It is continuity, defensibility, and long-term family control.

§ 03

Where We Add Value

01 / 04Pillar 2 | Global Mobility, Immigration & Departure

Global Mobility & Departure Tax

Tax planning for individuals and families moving to Canada, leaving Canada, returning after years abroad, or establishing residence across multiple countries.

Typical support includes:

Private client outcome
Move jurisdictions with a clear understanding of what changes—and what should be addressed before the move occurs.
  1. pre-immigration planning;
  2. newcomer tax landing reviews;
  3. Canadian tax-residence analysis;
  4. treaty tie-breaker analysis;
  5. departure tax planning;
  6. valuation of assets on arrival or departure;
  7. cost-basis documentation;
  8. global asset registers;
  9. return-to-Canada planning.
02 / 04Pillar 4 | Cross-Border Trusts, Estates & Private Clients

Cross-Border Trusts & Estate Succession

International tax planning for trusts, inheritances, estates, family holding structures, and intergenerational transfers.

Typical support includes:

Private client outcome
Preserve continuity across jurisdictions while reducing avoidable tax and administrative friction.
  1. creation and review of foreign trusts;
  2. trust-residence analysis;
  3. Canadian beneficiaries of foreign trusts;
  4. international inheritance reviews;
  5. foreign probate coordination;
  6. inherited real estate and businesses;
  7. valuation and cost-basis documentation;
  8. estate distributions and foreign tax credits;
  9. intergenerational wealth transfers.
03 / 04Pillar 5 | Foreign Assets, Companies & International Compliance

Foreign Asset & Entity Compliance

Technical reporting and regularization for foreign companies, offshore assets, trusts, investment holdings, and international income.

Typical support includes:

Private client outcome
Maintain a complete and defensible cross-border reporting record.
  1. T1134 foreign affiliate reporting;
  2. T1135 foreign-property disclosures;
  3. T1141 / T1142 foreign trust reporting;
  4. foreign affiliate and FAPI analysis;
  5. surplus and cost-base analysis;
  6. foreign tax credits;
  7. historical regularization;
  8. voluntary disclosures;
  9. CRA audit and penalty support.
04 / 04Pillars 3 & 4 | Fractional International Tax Office + Private Client Advisory

Single-Point Family Office Oversight

Central international tax oversight for families whose advisers, assets, and entities span multiple jurisdictions.

TRANSIUM can work as an extension of the family office rather than replacing the professionals already involved.

Typical support includes:

Private client outcome
One senior tax perspective connecting the family’s broader advisory ecosystem.
  1. coordinating domestic accountants;
  2. liaising with foreign tax advisers;
  3. working with estate counsel and trustees;
  4. reviewing family holding structures;
  5. monitoring reporting obligations;
  6. overseeing international tax calendars;
  7. maintaining continuity across generations and jurisdictions.
§ 04 — The Global Family Risk Map
WHERE COMPLEXITY CREATES FRICTION.

Wealth Can Be Exposed in More Places Than It Appears.

The Global Family Risk Map:01 / 06
RESIDENCETRUSTSFOREIGN ASSETSINHERITANCEFAMILY COMPANIESSUCCESSION
01/06
RESIDENCE

Changes in family residence may alter the tax treatment of income, trusts, companies, and future gains.

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A Private Client Planning Journey

  1. Step 01 / 05

    Map

    Understand the family, residences, assets, companies, trusts, and advisers.

  2. Step 02 / 05

    Diagnose

    Identify tax friction, reporting gaps, competing residence positions, and succession risks.

  3. Step 03 / 05

    Structure

    Align trusts, ownership, valuations, and tax positions across jurisdictions.

  4. Step 04 / 05

    Coordinate

    Bring accountants, lawyers, trustees, wealth advisers, and foreign specialists into one framework.

  5. Step 05 / 05

    Preserve

    Maintain the structure as family members move, assets evolve, and wealth passes to the next generation.

Designed Around Private Wealth Decisions

Relocating Families

Families entering or leaving Canada and needing coordinated residence, asset, and trust planning.

Global Entrepreneurs

Business owners holding operating companies, investment vehicles, and family wealth across multiple jurisdictions.

Family Offices

Single- and multi-family offices requiring ongoing international tax oversight across complex structures.

Trustees & Executors

Fiduciaries managing foreign trusts, cross-border estates, inherited assets, and multi-country reporting obligations.

Internationally Mobile Executives

Senior professionals with compensation, investments, pensions, and residence ties across several countries.

§ 07

Discretion & Excellence Standards

  1. 01

    Absolute Confidentiality

    Discretion Is Built Into the Engagement.

    Private-client matters are often highly sensitive.

    TRANSIUM approaches family structures, inheritances, trusts, relocations, and compliance issues with a high degree of confidentiality, direct communication, and limited unnecessary circulation of information.

  2. 02

    Treaty-Level Mastery

    Cross-Border Wealth Requires More Than Domestic Tax Knowledge.

    International families need advice that accounts for the interaction between multiple tax systems, treaty rules, foreign entities, trusts, and reporting frameworks.

    We approach each matter as a multi-jurisdictional problem rather than a domestic issue with a foreign appendix.

  3. 03

    Complete Intergenerational Alignment

    The Structure Should Work for the Family That Comes Next.

    A tax-efficient arrangement today can become problematic when children move abroad, trustees change, assets are sold, or succession begins.

    We consider not only the current family structure but how wealth may transfer and evolve over time.

MANY ADVISERS. ONE FAMILY.

Complexity Increases When No One Owns the Cross-Border Tax Picture.

A family may have08
  1. 01an accountant in Canada
  2. 02estate counsel in another country
  3. 03foreign corporate advisers
  4. 04trustees
  5. 05portfolio managers
  6. 06private bankers
  7. 07immigration counsel
  8. 08local tax professionals in several jurisdictions

Each may understand one part of the picture.

TRANSIUM can provide the central international tax perspective connecting those relationships.

The result is better coordination, fewer contradictions, and a more coherent approach to family wealth.

§ 09

Protecting Wealth Across Generations

  1. 01
    OWNERSHIP

    How wealth is held matters.

    Trusts, corporations, direct ownership, and family holding structures can produce very different outcomes.

  2. 02
    RESIDENCE

    Where family members live changes the analysis.

    Tax residence affects income, distributions, inheritance, and future gains.

  3. 03
    LIQUIDITY

    Taxes should not force the wrong asset sale.

    We help model future tax exposure so families can plan for liquidity needs around succession and death.

  4. 04
    SUCCESSION

    The structure should survive transition.

    Cross-border planning should support the transfer of wealth without creating avoidable friction for the next generation.

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Why Private Clients Choose TRANSIUM

Senior-Led. Discreet. Cross-Border by Design.

  1. 01

    Direct Senior Access

    Private-client matters receive direct senior-level attention rather than being routed through multiple delivery layers.

  2. 02

    Integrated Perspective

    Mobility, trusts, estates, foreign companies, and compliance are considered together.

  3. 03

    Documentation & Defensibility

    Material positions are supported with clear analysis, valuation records, and a coherent reporting framework.

  4. 04

    Adviser Collaboration

    We work alongside the family’s accountants, lawyers, trustees, investment advisers, and foreign professionals.

  5. 05

    Long-Term Continuity

    The relationship can evolve with the family as residence, ownership, succession, and wealth structures change.

PRESERVE WHAT WAS BUILT. PLAN FOR WHAT COMES NEXT.

The Best Private Client Planning Creates Options for the Next Generation.

The most valuable cross-border planning does more than reduce current tax.

It helps ensure that family wealth remains organized, documented, transferable, and understandable when future events occur.

  1. 01A child moving abroad
  2. 02A business being sold
  3. 03A foreign property being inherited
  4. 04A trust making its first distribution
  5. 05The next generation assuming responsibility for the family structure

TRANSIUM helps families prepare for those transitions before they become urgent.

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Protect and Structure Your Global Legacy

Whether you are planning an international move, reviewing a foreign trust, coordinating an inheritance, regularizing offshore assets, or building a more integrated family office structure, TRANSIUM can help create clarity across jurisdictions.

Speak with TRANSIUM before wealth crosses borders or generations.

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