We protect
your money, your time, your privacy.

Owner-led and independent, GCG provides corporate structuring, private wealth structuring, and digital asset licensing for founders, families, and businesses operating across borders. GCG does not manage client money. The work is the legal and tax structure that holds the assets, not the assets themselves.

We optimize your legal and tax structure so you deploy capital on the best terms.

Let’s move forward together.

01_what we do?

GCG structures corporate entities, tax positions, residency, and family wealth for clients across the UAE, DIFC, and ADGM. That covers company formation and banking, corporate tax registration and rate determination, family office and succession structures, and licensing for digital asset businesses, each handled by sequencing the decisions in the right order rather than fixing the structure after it's already in place.

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Where We Operate

04_What we cover

Corporate services

Business setup, banking, residency, and digital asset structuring, sequenced around what the business actually needs, not around licence price. Start at Business Setup, or go straight to Company formation Dubai, Corporate banking for UAE companies, or Golden Visa UAE.

Corporate tax registration and rate determination, mapped against the full group structure before anything is filed. Start at Tax & Finance, or go straight to UAE Tax Rates for the exact deadlines and thresholds, or Corporate finance advisory Dubai.

Family office structures, succession planning, and private wealth vehicles for founders and families with cross-border holdings. Start at Family Office, or go straight to Succession or DIFC foundation.

Structuring across VARA, DFSA, and FSRA for virtual asset businesses, token issuers, and crypto-native wealth. Start at Digital asset structuring, or go straight to VARA license hub or Crypto license UAE.

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Team

Peter Ivantsov

managing partner

Sergei Ivanius

head of operations

Jacques Isabelle

senior advisor

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Insights

September, 2026

AML Compliance in the UAE (2026): Who Must Register, What the Law Requires, and What It Costs to Get Wrong

AML compliance UAE 2026: who must register on goAML, the six triggers that make a company formation agent a DNFBP, core obligations and penalties.

September, 2026

VAT Deregistration UAE 2026: Deadlines, Penalties and the EmaraTax Process

VAT deregistration UAE: the 20 business day deadline, what a late application costs, the EmaraTax process, and deemed supply on your final return.

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Testimonials

Request
a consultation

A 30-minute conversation about your situation and what protecting it requires. We advise on how wealth and businesses are structured, held, and passed on. We do not manage money or recommend investments.

What we cover

  1. Your position now: assets, entities, jurisdictions, and the people involved.
  2. What is prompting the review: tax, succession, residency, banking, or a coming change.
  3. The structures that fit, and the sequence to put them in place.
  4. What a formal engagement would involve, if you decide to proceed.

Practicalities

By video or phone. 


Anything you share is treated as confidential.

The scheduler asks for the nature of the matter and the jurisdictions involved, so we can route you to the right specialist and prepare 
before we speak.