One structure, one page
Both bases mapped as a single system — the view in which contradictions and exposures become visible before they are exploited.
Dual-location & second base
Living and doing business in two countries doubles the rulebooks.
Legal strategy for dual-location life and business from Aun & Co.: residence, entities, contracts and exposure managed coherently across two bases.
A second base — a home, a company, a working presence in another country while the first remains — creates a legal condition most advisers treat one country at a time. Tax residence tests read your calendar; each state's courts may claim your disputes; contracts signed in one base can be enforced against assets in the other; and family, inheritance and regulatory regimes overlap where no one planned for them to. The firm treats the two-base life as a single legal structure and designs it deliberately, with Israel as one anchor of the map.
The work spans
- Two-jurisdiction exposure mapping: courts, claims and assets
- Entity architecture across bases: what sits where, and why
- Contract and dispute-clause coherence between the two systems
- Presence and documentation discipline for residence-sensitive tests
- Coordination with tax and local advisers under one strategy
- You split the year between Israel and another country and no adviser sees both halves.
- A business is forming in the second country while your assets remain anchored in the first.
- A dispute in one base is reaching toward assets and family in the other.
- Each country's advisers give sound advice that quietly contradicts the other's.
The firm draws the whole structure on one page first: assets, entities, contracts, family and presence patterns across both countries — then asks the disputes question of each element: if this is attacked, in which forum, and what does it drag with it. Structural gaps are closed by design: which base holds which assets, which contracts choose which forum, and what the calendar and paper trail must show. Local specialists execute their layer; the coherence stays in one file.
04 · What you get
Assets placed deliberately
What sits in which jurisdiction decided by enforcement and exposure logic, not by the accident of where each account was opened.
Advisers synchronised
Tax, local and family specialists coordinated under one strategic file, so the second base does not become a second front.
A typical engagement: a business owner establishing a second base abroad while operations remain in Israel. The firm maps both systems, restructures which entity contracts with whom, aligns the dispute clauses to enforceable forums, and sets the presence documentation the residence tests will one day examine.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
What legal risks come with living in two countries?
The structural ones: both states' courts may claim jurisdiction over you, residence tests can attach tax consequences to your calendar, and assets in each base are exposed to disputes from the other. None is prohibitive — all are manageable when the two-base life is designed rather than accumulated.
Can a dispute in one country reach my assets in the other?
Frequently, yes — through recognition of judgments, arbitration awards that travel under the New York Convention 1958, or direct proceedings where the assets sit. Which is why asset placement across the two bases is a strategic decision, not a logistical one.
What does a dual-location legal review produce?
A single map of both jurisdictions — assets, entities, contracts, presence patterns — with the exposures ranked and a restructuring plan sequenced by risk. It typically takes two to four weeks and becomes the standing reference for every adviser on either side.