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Originally Posted by Toni
Webby,
thanks for the great replies and detailed info!
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No prob Toni!
To be honest it would probably take a 1-2 day meet to get the basic overall of "offshore" and the possible valid uses, pros and cons of each jurisdiction and a decent grounding.
It is well-worth trying to absorb as much of that as possible to enable the right questions and prompting for lawyers to come up with the best solutions/answers and develop a structure best-suited to individual circumstances. (A "structure" can simply be one corp, two corps one owning the other or not, or a series of corps depending - all over "whatever" jurisdictions suit best).
A few years back we hauled a couple of offshore lawyers along to an adult conference to give advice, but at that time the level of interest was minimal and it really did need more than a short session to cover this. The last adult webmaster event where the subject of offshore was on the agenda was at the Costa Rica Bash 2005 -
http://costaricabash.com. It may be worth developing more specialized meetings to cover this subject in detail for folks who are interested.
But... despite all that, the good news is "offshore" is far easier in real life than it may sound
PS You asked about lawyers "specializing" in adult and offshore. This is really more than one specialization - international corp law, adult issues and "home country" taxation law and I don't know of any lawyers who cover all aspects within the adult biz.