Henley & Partners
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Henley & Partners is a global citizenship and residence advisory firm, headquartered in Jersey with over 25 offices worldwide. It advises governments on residence and citizenship policy and works with them to develop and implement residence and citizenship programs. It also consults on general immigration law and policy, visa policy, and the negotiation of associated treaties. Henley & Partners’ Residence and Citizenship Practice Group advises individuals, their advisors, bankers and family offices on alternative or additional residence and citizenship.
While its origins date back to the 1970s, Henley & Partners as it is today was formed in 1997 through the combination of a private client immigration consultancy and a fiduciary company. During these years, and the 2000s, the firm ran small ventures assisting individuals in moving their businesses and families around the world, specifically procuring passports for these wealthy business people in Austria and Saint Kitts and Nevis At the time, the concepts of residence and citizenship planning were not considered a subject of much relevance, however this changed in 2006 when Henley & Partners became involved in the restructuring of St. Kitts and Nevis's citizenship-by-investment program to incorporate donations to the sugar industry. The firm obtained exclusive rights to market St. Kitts & Nevis at its events. In 2006, 1% of St. Kitts and Nevis's GDP came from citizenship-by-investment programs. This grew to 25% in 2014 - with nearly half coming from the Sugar Industry Diversification Fund.
Following the St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship-by-investment program's restructuring, Henley & Partners began to advise the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Grenada and Cyprus on how to develop their own citizenship-by-investment programs. In 2013, Henley & Partners won the right to design Malta's citizenship-by-investment program, the Malta Individual Investor Programme, which raised over USD 1 billion within 18 months of its launch.
The firm, as well as most of its individual partners, directors and senior officers, are regulated where applicable by the respective authorities in the countries where they operate. They are also members of various professional associations such as the Investment Migration Council, STEP, FIABCI, and others.
Today Henley & Partners is led by Dr. Christian H. Kälin an immigration and citizenship law specialist. He advises clients as well as governments in those areas, is a writer and speaker on these issues and is regularly quoted in the international media.
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