Mandate boundaries
Mandates AGATE will not accept for Hong Kong structures.
AGATE turns down mandates that cannot survive documented review. That boundary is part of the structure, because banks, counsel, counterparties, and regulators will test the same record.
Can the structure, the source, and the principal survive bank review, counsel review, and regulator review?
A source-of-wealth file that cannot be supported by documents is not solved by a Hong Kong company; it is exposed by one.
Source of wealth and source of funds must be supported by documents before any Hong Kong structure is opened.
Why AGATE instead of a generic provider
The buyer question is the review file.
Will the Hong Kong function be visible in the contracts, decisions, people, source records, banking file, and refusal line?
Global administrators, incorporation agents, and trust companies lead with scale, offices, formation speed, awards, or all-in service menus.
AGATE makes the control record bankable: who owns, who decides, where money moves, why Hong Kong is in the chain, and what cannot be supported.
The page is useful when a bank, trustee, counsel team, heir, buyer, counterparty, or regulator will need the same facts in writing.
No anonymous nominee work, no false substance, no bank misrepresentation, and no claim of universal asset protection.
Structural question
Can the structure, the source, and the principal survive bank review, counsel review, and regulator review?
A source-of-wealth file that cannot be supported by documents is not solved by a Hong Kong company; it is exposed by one.
A structure that cannot show real decisions, contracts, or activity in Hong Kong fails review regardless of how clean the constitutional documents look.
A bank-account promise made before the file is reviewed misleads the principal and damages the provider that made it.
Sanctioned-jurisdiction exposure or sanctioned-person exposure is not a structuring problem; it is a refusal point.
File sequence
Refusal file: what must line up.
Refusal file
AGATE does not provide nominee directors, nominee shareholders, or beneficial-owner shielding designed to defeat KYC and beneficial-ownership disclosure.
AGATE does not build paper management companies, paper treasury centres, or paper IP holding structures whose contracts, decisions, or operating activity do not match the file.
AGATE does not promise bank onboarding regardless of facts, and does not coach principals through misrepresentation to authorised institutions.
What AGATE builds
The record must survive the pressure.
Source of wealth and source of funds must be supported by documents before any Hong Kong structure is opened.
Sanctioned-jurisdiction or sanctioned-person exposure is reviewed before scope; identified exposure ends the engagement.
The Hong Kong structure must carry the function, the contracts, the people, and the banking record that match the file the bank will receive.
Every accepted mandate is scoped privately under written terms; AGATE does not run public packages, generic intake, or self-service onboarding.
Questions principals ask
Short questions. Document-led answers.
What kinds of mandates does AGATE refuse?
AGATE refuses anonymous nominee work, beneficial-owner shielding, false economic substance, paper management or treasury companies that do not match operating reality, bank misrepresentation, sanctions evasion, sanctioned-jurisdiction exposure, unlicensed virtual-asset activity, unlicensed gaming or gambling operations, and any structure whose principal will not provide source-of-funds and source-of-wealth documentation.
Why is the refusal list public?
Because the refusal posture is part of the structure's quality. A provider that does not refuse anything is a provider whose accepted work cannot be trusted by banks, counsel, or counterparties.
The refusal list lets both the principal and AGATE decide quickly whether the structure is one AGATE can responsibly support.
Does refusal mean AGATE does not do tax planning?
No.
AGATE coordinates lawful tax planning with qualified tax counsel; the refusal is against tax evasion, false substance, and misrepresentation, not against the legitimate use of the Hong Kong concessionary regimes such as the corporate treasury centre regime, the FIHV regime, the patent box regime, or the re-domiciliation regime when the facts support them.
Official context
The law is public. The facts decide scope.
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615)www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap615
- TCSP licensing portalwww.tcsp.cr.gov.hk/
- Inland Revenue Departmentwww.ird.gov.hk/
Private review
From question to written scope.
If the structure, the source, and the principal can survive documented review, the next step is a private enquiry. Prepare a short written description of the function, the current structure, the source context, and the timing.