Advisory services
Eight services across two areas of work. Advisory sharpens the strategy and the numbers; structuring and growth put the plan into effect across markets. Every engagement is general business and management consultancy — not regulated financial services, and not investment advice.
Advisory
Work that sharpens the strategy and the numbers before anything is committed — the thinking that makes the next decision clearer.
Management consultancy
We help owners and management teams sharpen strategy, operating model, and the way decisions get made. That starts with a clear diagnostic — where the business actually is — and ends with priorities the team can act on, plus support to carry them through.
- ✓ Strategy and priorities, set against the real constraints
- ✓ Operating model and organisation design
- ✓ Decision-making and governance for the management team
- ✓ Execution support so the plan does not stall at the recommendation
Financial consultancy
General corporate and business financial advisory: budgeting, forecasting, cost and cash-flow discipline, and getting the business ready to raise or invest. This is planning and structure for the company’s own finances — not investment advice, securities dealing, or asset management.
- ✓ Budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning
- ✓ Cost control and cash-flow discipline
- ✓ Funding readiness — the numbers and narrative before a raise
- ✓ Financial structure that supports the corporate plan
International business advisory
Guidance for operating across borders: how to structure the business, choose and manage partners, stay alert to local requirements, and hold an operating rhythm that works across time zones and markets. We help you run an international business as one business, not several loosely connected ones.
- ✓ Operating structure for a multi-market business
- ✓ Partner selection and relationship management
- ✓ Compliance-awareness across jurisdictions (general advisory)
- ✓ An operating rhythm that holds across markets
Market entry advisory
Assessing a new market and entering it well. We size the opportunity, weigh the entry model, map the local requirements and partners, and set out a practical launch plan — so the decision to enter is made with eyes open and the first months are planned, not improvised.
- ✓ Opportunity sizing and market assessment
- ✓ Entry model — direct, partner, or hybrid
- ✓ Local requirements and partner mapping
- ✓ A practical, sequenced launch plan
Structuring & Growth
Work that puts the plan into effect — the structure, the sequence, and the coordination that turn a strategy into an operating business across markets.
Corporate structuring
Designing a sensible corporate and holding structure for the business’s goals, ownership, and cross-border footprint. We work through the options and their trade-offs so the structure supports the plan rather than fighting it. This is general advisory; obtain independent legal and tax advice before acting.
- ✓ Corporate and holding-structure design
- ✓ Ownership and control considerations
- ✓ Cross-border footprint and coordination
- ✓ Options, trade-offs, and a route to independent legal and tax sign-off
Business expansion strategy
Planning and sequencing growth — new products, segments, channels, or geographies — with the operating and financial plan to support it. We help you decide not just where to grow, but in what order, and what the business needs in place before each step.
- ✓ Growth options across products, segments, and channels
- ✓ Sequencing — what comes first, and why
- ✓ The operating plan to support each move
- ✓ The financial plan that underpins it
Cross-border business coordination
Coordinating people, partners, and processes across jurisdictions so a multi-country operation runs coherently. As a business spreads across markets, the risk is fragmentation — decisions duplicated, standards drifting, no single view. We help hold it together.
- ✓ Coordination across teams, partners, and jurisdictions
- ✓ Consistent processes and standards across markets
- ✓ A single operating view of a multi-country business
- ✓ Clear lines of decision-making and accountability
Corporate and financial planning
Bringing the corporate plan and the financial plan together into one document the management team can run against: objectives, milestones, resourcing, and the numbers that underpin them. One plan, so strategy and finance move in the same direction.
- ✓ Objectives and milestones for the corporate plan
- ✓ Resourcing against the plan
- ✓ The financial model that underpins it
- ✓ One integrated plan the team can execute and review
A note on financial consultancy
Our financial consultancy is general corporate and business financial advisory — budgeting, planning, structuring, forecasting, and funding readiness. AQ Markets Limited is not licensed or regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong or by any other financial services regulator. We do not provide investment advice, deal in or manage investments, or accept client money for investment. Nothing here is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Obtain independent professional advice before acting.