Brenig Consulting · Est. 2011
An independent advisory firm serving entrepreneurs, families and their enterprises: shaping structures, opening institutional relationships, and standing between the principal and the professionals who act for them.
The Firm
Principals of substance rarely lack advisers. What they lack is one person who understands the entire enterprise, holds the strategy, and can speak to every specialist in their own language.
Brenig Consulting was founded in 2011 to be that person. We work with entrepreneurs, families and the companies they control, advising on how their affairs should be arranged, where they should be arranged, and with whom. We then remain at the principal's side while lawyers, tax advisers, bankers and fiduciaries carry the work through, ensuring that the pieces fit and that the original intent survives contact with the detail.
We are deliberately independent. We do not practise law, hold client money or sell products. Our loyalty is to the principal, and our value is judgement: knowing what is possible, what is prudent, and what is not worth doing at all.
We keep no offices of our own by design. We work where the principal works: in their boardroom, alongside their team, in the countries where their interests lie. An adviser who is part of the enterprise sees what a visiting one never will.
Advisory
Every engagement is shaped around the principal. These are the areas in which we are most often asked to act.
How an enterprise, a family's holdings or a single transaction should be arranged: which entities, which jurisdictions, which trusts or partnerships, and in what order. We form the strategy with the principal and then instruct and coordinate counsel in each jurisdiction to deliver it, so that legal, tax and commercial considerations are resolved together rather than in sequence.
Opening and maintaining relationships with private banks, payment institutions and fiduciary providers across jurisdictions. We know what institutions ask, why they ask it, and how a principal's affairs should be presented so that onboarding proceeds without friction and the relationship endures.
We act as the liaison between the principal and their professional teams: lawyers, tax advisers, accountants, trustees and bankers, often in several countries at once. We translate the principal's intent into instructions, translate the advice back into decisions, and keep the whole apparatus pointed at the outcome the principal actually wants.
For transactions, joint ventures and disputes, we provide the strategic view above the working teams: setting direction, weighing options, anticipating the other side, and advising the principal at each turn. Our role is counsel rather than administration: the ideas, the vision and the strategy, with the execution left to those best placed to carry it out.
Approach
We begin inside the enterprise, at the principal's side: the business, the family, the ambitions and the constraints. Advice given without that context is advice given in the dark.
We set out the strategy in plain terms, with the options, the trade-offs and our recommendation. The principal decides; we make sure the decision is an informed one.
We remain engaged while the specialists deliver, attending to the details that fall between disciplines and ensuring the result matches the design.
"Advisers answer the question they are asked. Our work is to make sure the right question is asked, of the right people, at the right time."Brenig Consulting
Clients
Founders and owners arranging their businesses, their exits and their next ventures across borders.
Families and family offices holding operating businesses, property and investments in more than one jurisdiction.
Boards and shareholders requiring an independent strategic voice on structure, finance and governance.
Principals in partnerships and disputes who need the situation seen whole and steered with a steady hand.
In the media
GBC Television. James Brenig in conversation with Denise Matthews on entrepreneurship, financial literacy and the value of long-term thinking.
GBC Television, July 2023. A studio panel on the four-day working week and what it would mean for business and employers in Gibraltar.
Radio interview. A conversation about First Coins: Foundations of Wealth and why an understanding of money is best acquired young.
Contact
Engagements begin with a private conversation about the principal's situation and what they wish to achieve. All enquiries are received in the strictest confidence.
Emailjames@b-consulting.co
Where we workWherever the client is