Private Interest Foundations

Maximum heritage protection and secure succession. A unique structure that merges corporate solidity and fiduciary flexibility.

The ultimate legal tool for your legacy

Private Interest Foundations in Panama allow you to efficiently manage your assets and plan your succession, transferring your legacy without subjecting your family to lengthy, costly and public inheritance processes.

You have the ability to separate a portion or all of your heritage under a framework of absolute confidentiality, simplicity and security.

The Founding Act

Document of public character that formalizes creation and gives life to the legal entity.

The Private Regulation

Strictly confidential document. Not registered in public registries. Minutely details assets, names beneficiaries and establishes exact distribution rules.

Complete Confidentiality

Your private information and beneficiary identities remain strictly protected under Panamanian law.

Control and Heritage Management

Unlike a traditional trust where control is ceded to third parties, here you transfer ownership and administrative faculties directly to the Foundation, operated by a Founding Council.

Fiduciary Obligation

The council must strictly comply with directives issued by the founder in the Act and Regulation, watching exclusively over interests of designated beneficiaries.

Protective Nature

Unlike commercial entities, they are designed for heritage protection and management. They cannot engage in habitual or recurring commercial activities.

Strategic Benefits and Uses in Panama

Structuring a Private Interest Foundation with our firm grants you unparalleled legal, tax and operational advantages.

Limited Commercial Flexibility

Though non-profit, they can participate in non-habitual commercial transactions and exercise shareholder rights to fulfill founding purposes.

Absolute Heritage Protection

Assets are separate heritage: unattachable and exempt from responding to personal debts, civil suits of founder or beneficiaries.

Comprehensive Tax Optimization

Complete exemption from Panama taxes on any income, gain or dividend from foreign sources (offshore).

Private and Automatic Succession

Upon founder death, transfer of assets to beneficiaries is immediate. Succession trials and heir declarations are eliminated.

Versatile Council Structure

Composed of minimum three natural persons (including founder if desired), one legal entity, or both figures.

Custom Activation

Can generate benefits during founder's lifetime, or be structured to take effect exclusively upon death.

Jurisdictional Mobility

Have legal capacity to relocate their domicile and migrate to other international jurisdictions that recognize the structure.

Protect your heritage today

Our specialized lawyers are ready to design the perfect fiduciary structure guaranteeing asset protection and your family's peace of mind.

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