Set up a Seychelles Foundation
A foundation is a nonprofit organization which is managed by the council members for a specific purpose and/or for the benefit of its beneficiaries. They are hybrid in nature, containing features of the corporation (legal personality) and the trust (created for a purpose or benefit).
Unlike a company, foundations have no shareholders, though they may have a board, an assembly, and voting members. Unlike a Trust, a Foundation has a legal personality on its own.
A foundation may hold assets in its own name for the purposes set out in its constitutive documents, and its administration and operation are carried out by the Council Members in accordance with the Foundation statutes or articles of association rather than fiduciary principles.
The Seychelles Foundations Act expressly provides for the Founder to reserve certain functions and rights to himself or another person such as directing investments, appointment and removal of protectors, councillors or beneficiaries and more. As a separate legal entity, this would not expose the Foundation to a “sham” argument or debate over “certainty” as it may with similar reserved powers to the settlor of a trust.
A Seychelles Foundation must have a minimum of $1 initial assets. Assets may originate from any lawful source (from the Founder or any third party) and consist of present or future assets of any nature.