Our Services
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Asset Protection & Estate Planning
Helping families secure assets and ensure a seamless legacy
Business Internationalization
Helping businesses reduce tax burdens and enhance productivity through business internationalization
Agricultural Debt Restructuring
Helping producers secure cash flow and preserve farmland by optimizing rural debt structures
Business Turnaround & Judicial Recovery (Chapter 11)
Helping companies overcome financial distress and restore profitability through strategic restructuring
M&A and Financial Restructuring
Helping shareholders maximize value and ensure business continuity through strategic M&A and financial restructuring
Business Intermediation
Enabling business around the world
About us
SRAP is a premier boutique consultancy firm dedicated to delivering high-impact strategic advisory for global corporations and private clients. We bridge the gap between complex legal-financial challenges and global opportunities, ensuring that both corporate entities and family legacies are built to last.
Our boutique structure is our greatest strength. It enables a partner-intensive service model, where seasoned professionals work directly on every mandate. This approach fosters long-term, trust-based relationships and allows for a level of in-depth business expertise that large-scale firms often cannot match.
Our team combines extensive international experience with distinguished academic credentials, positioning SRAP as a thought leader in cross-border transactions and asset protection. We serve a diverse portfolio of multinational corporations and family offices, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to every project.
We possess deep-rooted knowledge across the world’s most vital sectors, including Agribusiness, Energy & Renewables, Metals & Mining, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing. By integrating legal precision with financial engineering, we ensure our clients navigate the global landscape with confidence and agility.
Our expertise is structured across 6 strategic pillars:
Asset Protection & Estate Planning
We specialize in creating bespoke plans to protect your family’s assets and future through robust asset protection and estate planning strategies. Our goal is to ensure that what has been built over the years is preserved and transferred with efficiency and legal security, ensuring a seamless transition and the continuity of your legacy for future generations.
Our Asset Protection and Estate Planning services are divided into three strategic stages to create a robust structure. This approach not only safeguards your assets against external risks but also optimizes tax efficiency—potentially reducing inheritance taxes to zero in specific cases through strategic legal instruments.
Diagnosis & Discovery
In this initial phase, we conduct a comprehensive “X-ray” of the current situation to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities.
Asset Mapping: A detailed inventory of real estate, corporate stakes, financial investments, and digital assets.
Risk Audit: Identification of potential liabilities (civil, labor, or tax-related) that may threaten the family estate.
Alignment of Objectives: Understanding family priorities, such as business continuity, protection against divorce/litigation, or immediate liquidity for heirs.
Family Profile Analysis: A study of current governance and the specific needs of each successor.
Structural Strategy & Design
This is where legal and tax engineering come into play to create a “bespoke” model tailored to the family’s profile.
Tax Modeling: A comparative study to reduce tax burdens (Inheritance Tax, Income Tax, Corporate Tax) and identify legal exemptions.
Selection of Legal Vehicles: Defining the best tools, such as Family Holdings, Property Management Companies, Trusts, or Private Equity Funds.
Strategic Shielding: Designing protective clauses (non-transferability, non-attachment, reversion) to ensure assets remain under family control.
Succession Planning: Defining rules for the transition of power and the distribution of shares to avoid slow and costly probate processes.
Implementation & Execution
The materialization phase, where structures are legally constituted and assets are officially transferred.
Legal Formation: Drafting of bylaws, shareholders’ agreements, and family protocols.
Asset Transfer: Execution of capital contributions, real estate deed registrations, and the migration of investment custody.
Governance & Compliance: Establishing management rules for the new structure to ensure long-term efficiency and legal compliance.
Family Training: Guidance for family members on how the new structure operates and their respective responsibilities.
Our strategies are developed with a ’turn-key’ approach, designed to ensure complete peace of mind. All technical complexities and government compliance requirements are handled by specialists, from the initial implementation through ongoing management. This allows you to enjoy maximum efficiency, protection, and all the benefits of the structure without even having to remember it exists, as we take care of every bureaucratic report and administrative obligation.
Business Internationalization
We help businesses reduce tax burdens and enhance productivity through business internationalization, granting access to new markets and strategic opportunities for expansion.
Diagnosis & Market Intelligence
The foundation of a successful expansion lies in deep data analysis and the strategic alignment of the business model with global opportunities.
Business Model Deep Dive: A comprehensive assessment of the company’s value proposition, production scalability, and competitive advantages to ensure readiness for international markets.
Target Market Mapping: Systematic identification and screening of jurisdictions with high demand potential and commercial affinity, specifically selecting markets capable of providing total tax burden reduction and operational cost optimization.
Regulatory & Compliance Audit: A technical study of local standards, entry barriers, trade agreements, and legal requirements to ensure a seamless transition across borders.
Competitive Global Benchmarking: Evaluation of the local competitive landscape in the target destination, focusing on pricing strategy, market positioning, and gap analysis.
Strategic Structuring & Design
In this phase, we engineer the most efficient architecture to maximize profitability and ensure long-term fiscal and operational sustainability.
Global Tax & Fiscal Architecture: Designing bespoke structures to leverage international double-taxation treaties, aiming for maximum fiscal efficiency and legal tax exemptions.
Operational Excellence Planning: Strategic logistics and supply chain planning designed to minimize friction, reduce overhead, and eliminate unnecessary expenses during the global transition.
Strategic Vehicle Selection: Determining the optimal entry model—whether through Family Holdings, International Subsidiaries, Joint Ventures, or Direct Exporting—tailored to the company’s specific profile.
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy: Developing a precise action plan for customer acquisition, establishing distribution channels, and securing high-value strategic local partnerships.
Implementation & Execution
The materialization phase, where the strategic plan is transformed into a fully operational and compliant international presence.
Corporate Formation & Legalization: Formal establishment of legal entities, trademark protection, and securing all necessary international licenses and permits.
Banking & Cross-Border Setup: Structuring international corporate accounts, optimizing foreign exchange (FX) flows, and establishing the necessary physical or digital infrastructure.
Commercial Launch & Activation: Executing the market entry plan, including local talent acquisition (where applicable) and the initiation of targeted marketing and sales activities.
Governance & Continuous Monitoring: Implementing management protocols and performance tracking to ensure the operation achieves its planned efficiency and scalability from day one.
Agricultural Debt Restructuring
We help producers protect their legacy and operational stability by optimizing rural debt structures and ensuring full regulatory compliance. Through a technical audit of credit agreements, we identify and correct inconsistencies, renegotiate liabilities, eliminate predatory interest rates, and release over-pledged collateral. Our goal is to transform financial pressure into sustainable growth, allowing you to focus on what matters most: the productivity and future of your farm.
MCR Regulatory Compliance Audit: Technical review of loan agreements to identify legal rights to debt extension and rate reductions under the Rural Credit Manual (MCR 2-6-4) due to crop failure or market volatility.
Credit Reclassification & Rectification: Identification of standard commercial loans that, by law, should be treated as rural credit, ensuring the producer benefits from protected interest rates and legal safeguards.
Elimination of Predatory Charges: Strategic removal of unlawful interest rates, excessive penalties, and illegal compounding to ensure the outstanding balance reflects strictly legal standards.
Collateral Release & Optimization: Legal intervention to release over-pledged assets (land and machinery), restoring the producer’s financial flexibility and equity control.
Cash Flow Realignment: Structuring multi-year payment plans tailored to the specific harvest cycles and actual cash flow capacity of the farm.
Operational Asset Shielding: Preventive measures to protect essential production assets from seizure, ensuring business continuity and the preservation of the producer’s legacy.
Business Turnaround & Judicial Recovery (Chapter 11)
We specialize in corporate revitalization, guiding businesses through complex financial challenges to ensure long-term stability and value preservation. Our approach integrates strategic turnaround management with the legal robustnees of judicial restructuring, focusing on debt renegotiation, operational streamlining, and capital restructuring. Our goal is to protect the company’s core essence, safeguard stakeholder interests, and restore sustainable growth, providing a definitive path for businesses to emerge from crisis stronger, more resilient, and fully prepared for the future.We support companies to understand current and future challenges adapting current operation in order to survive and thrive.
Diagnosis & Crisis Stabilization
The immediate focus is to halt cash burn and assess the core viability of the business.
Financial & Operational Deep Dive: A comprehensive audit of cash flow, debt maturity schedules, and operational bottlenecks to identify the root causes of distress.
Cash Burn Containment: Immediate implementation of “war room” measures to preserve liquidity and prioritize essential payments.
Viability Assessment: Evaluating which business units are profitable and which should be restructured or divested to save the core operation.
Strategic Planning & Filing
Designing the legal and financial “shield” to protect the company while the restructuring plan is built.
Judicial Recovery Engineering: Preparing the legal filing (Chapter 11 style) to grant the company a “stay period,” protecting assets from seizures and lawsuits.
Restructuring Plan Design: Crafting a bespoke payment plan, including debt haircuts (deságios), extended grace periods, and sustainable interest rates.
DIP Financing Structuring: Seeking “Debtor-in-Possession” financing or new credit lines to inject fresh capital into the operation during the recovery process.
Implementation & Revitalization
The execution phase, where the company is transformed to return to long-term profitability.
Creditor Negotiation & Mediation: Leading the negotiations with banks, suppliers, and labor unions to ensure the approval of the recovery plan at the Creditors’ Meeting.
Operational Turnaround: Executing process optimizations, cost-cutting measures, and management improvements to restore margins and efficiency.
Governance & Monitoring: Implementing strict financial controls and transparency protocols to regain market trust and ensure the successful completion of the restructuring.
M&A and Financial Restructuring
We specialize in strategic advisory for M&A and corporate restructuring, providing the expertise needed to navigate complex transactions and financial transitions. Whether facilitating mergers, acquisitions, or divestitutes, or leadind deep balance sheet restructurings, our focus is on maximizing shareholder value and ensuring the long-term viability of the enterprise. We combine financial engineering with sector-specific insights to execute deals that drive growth, optimize capital structures, and secure the business’s future in a competitive landscape.
1. Valuation & Readiness
Strategic Valuation: Determining the real market value to establish a solid negotiation floor.
Pre-M&A Cleanup: Correcting financial and governance inefficiencies to maximize the final sale price.
2. Capital Optimization
Liability Management: Renegotiating and replacing high-cost debt to lower the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).
Equity Engineering: Implementing debt-to-equity swaps and recapitalization to strengthen the balance sheet.
3. Deal Execution
Mandate Management: Leading the entire buy-side or sell-side process, from target identification to negotiation.
Due Diligence & Closing: Coordinating technical audits and finalizing definitive agreements to ensure a secure transaction.
Business Intermediation
Due to our global network of clients and partners, we enable business around the world by providing strategic business intermediation across a broad array of industries. We act as a bridge between capital, technology, and market demand, identifying high-value opportunities and facilitating the negotiation process from inception to closing. Our goal is to leverage our international reach to reduce entry barriers and create synergistic partnerships that drive global expansion and profitability, primarily in the following areas:.
Core Industry Verticals:
- Agribusiness & Soft Commodities:
- Grains & Sugar: Soybeans, corn, and sugar.
- Proteins: Beef, poultry, and pork.
- Softs & Forestry: Coffee and lumber.
- Energy & Natural Resources:
- Renewables & Power: Utilities, solar, and wind energy infrastructure.
- Hydrocarbons: Oil, fuels (LCO, Gasoline, Ethanol), and LNG.
- Metals & Precious Minerals:
- Precious Metals: Gold and silver.
- Industrial Metals: Copper and strategic ores.
- Technology & Telecommunications:
- Infrastructure: IT and Telecommunications.
- Hardware: Consumer electronics and industrial components.
- Advanced Manufacturing:
- Industrial Components: Metallic and plastic parts.
- Consumer Goods: Electronic manufacturing services.
- Financial Services & Instruments:
- Strategic advisory, structured finance, and capital market instruments.