Establishment of Local Presence

A company which is generating sufficient turnover on the Russian market may consider establishing a local office. Local presence is a crucial prerequisite to increase sales on the Russian market. This local office can import goods and stock goods, offer after-sales services to its Russian customers and undertake sales and marketing activities.

Registration of legal and non-legal entities

The registration of a local legal or non-legal entity is a long process which involves a lot of paperwork and time. Furthermore, only a Russian national may initially be the general director of a Russian legal entity. Our clients can outsource the entire process of registration to Lighthouse. More information on Establishment of Local Presence

Search for offices, production sites and warehouses

Russia, and especially Moscow, faces a chronic shortage of suitable offices, production sites and warehouses. As a result, our clients often face difficulties in identifying suitable options for their office, production site or warehouses. Lighthouse assists its clients in overcoming these difficulties through office, production site and warehouse searches.

Staff search

Our clients often face problems in finding qualified and reliable staff. In fact, this has been identified as one of the major barriers for foreign companies that want to develop their position on the Russian market. Lighthouse has a tailor-made program to assist its clients in finding qualified and reliable staff.

"Lighthouse offers us complete practical support and has assisted in the expansion of our Moscow office. Professional advice and consultancy in formal matters such as extending our incorporated RO (representative office); the excellent and (almost) peer support of our Russian employee who, as a result, does not feel like she is working alone in Moscow but receives a lot of support from the ‘warmth' of the Lighthouse team; the perfect way in which our RO administration is processed by the team and the pleasant, quick and proper way in which all our questions are answered or detailed. We have been so satisfied with this first year that we would like to continue to make use of Lighthouse's services in 2011!"

Trea Klaarenbeek, Managing Director, Jos de Vries International B.V. (2010)

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