GPS Investments
Structure, jurisdiction and the route capital takes.
Offshore incorporation for Sri Lankan business owners, and support for organisations placing or attracting investment across nations, industries and infrastructure.
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What we do
Economic conditions in Sri Lanka have left many well-run businesses constrained by where they are incorporated rather than by how they trade. A holding structure in the right jurisdiction removes that constraint.
GPS Investments is the group’s practice for that work. Its established service is incorporating Sri Lankan businesses in Singapore, from formation through to the resident director, corporate secretarial, payroll, banking and filing functions that keep the entity alive afterwards.
Around that sits the wider brief: assessing jurisdictions nation by nation and industry by industry, supporting organisations involved in infrastructure development, and facilitating foreign direct investment into and out of Sri Lanka.
GPS is not a fund and does not hold client money. The role is advisory, administrative and operational: choosing the structure, building it, and running the obligations that come with it.
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Incorporate your business in Singapore
Company incorporation services in Singapore for Sri Lankan business owners, by GPS Sri Lanka.
Why you should incorporate in Singapore
Greater opportunity
A larger market, and access to counterparties who will not contract with a Sri Lankan entity today.
Easy international currency payments
Sending and receiving in major currencies without the friction a Sri Lankan account currently carries.
Tax privilege
Singapore's corporate tax treatment, which for many owners is the single reason the exercise pays for itself.
Access to digital currencies
A jurisdiction with a settled regulatory position on digital assets.
Multicultural and dynamic
A business culture and a talent pool Sri Lankan owners can operate inside without a long adjustment.
Why you should choose GPS Sri Lanka
- GPS is the only Sri Lankan entity that provides exclusive solutions to Sri Lankan business owners
- GPS is based in Sri Lanka and is available to assist business owners without delay
- You can have your choice of discounted annual plan or cash-flow friendly monthly plan
- Easy to understand and self-explanatory processes with less complications
- Our journey with you does not stop after the incorporation of your company. We go the extra mile in servicing you
Our value added services
- Centralised communications and storage facilities
- 24/7 admin support
- Resident director functions and corporate secretarial functions
- Payroll, visas, banking and government facilitation, accounting and GST filings
- E-sign capabilities
- Virtual board meetings and scheduling
Who can incorporate their business?
Legally registered Sri Lankan businesses can incorporate.
Any business from any industry can incorporate.
Companies that engage in extensive foreign currency transactions can incorporate.
Eligibility above is as GPS publishes it. Singapore’s own requirements, including the resident director condition, are confirmed for your specific case before anything is filed.
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By nation, by industry
Two questions decide most structures, and they are usually asked in the wrong order. Where, and in what sector.
Nation-wise
Every jurisdiction asks different questions of an incoming business: what a foreign owner may hold, how profit leaves the country, what a resident director is for, and how long each step actually takes. GPS works through those country by country, so the choice of jurisdiction is made on the mechanics rather than on reputation. Singapore is the route GPS has built out furthest and is set out in full above.
Industry-wise
Licensing, capital requirements and reporting obligations vary far more by sector than by country. Before a structure is chosen, GPS establishes what your specific industry requires in the target jurisdiction, and what that means for timeline and cost. Where a sector needs specialist regulatory or legal counsel, GPS says so and brings them in rather than working around the gap.
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Infrastructure development
Infrastructure projects fail on administration far more often than on engineering. GPS works on the administration.
A project brings together an overseas sponsor, local partners, lenders, contractors and one or more public bodies, each on their own timetable and each expecting documents in their own format. Somebody has to hold that together day to day. That is the role GPS offers: a project office in Sri Lanka handling correspondence, documentation, scheduling, records and reporting, so the parties spend their time on decisions rather than on chasing paper.
Alongside it sits the group’s wider capability: entity formation and secretarial work for a project vehicle, payroll and visas for an incoming team, and the back-office processing a live project generates.
GPS does not finance, build or operate infrastructure, and does not present itself as a party to a project. It is engaged by those who are.
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Foreign direct investment
An investor arriving in an unfamiliar market needs the same thing a Sri Lankan owner needs going the other way: someone local who can actually get the steps done.
Inbound, GPS supports overseas investors entering Sri Lanka: establishing the local entity, opening banking, meeting filing and reporting obligations, recruiting and payrolling the first team, arranging visas, and running the administration until the investor has their own people in place.
Outbound, the same support runs in reverse for Sri Lankan organisations placing capital overseas, built on the incorporation practice described above.
Where an approval, an incentive or a licence has to come from a Sri Lankan authority, GPS prepares and manages the submission and the correspondence around it. GPS does not grant approvals, and makes no representation about the outcome of any application.
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Getting started
The first conversation is about facts, not a pitch: what the business does, where its customers and currencies sit, what is blocked today, and what you want to be true in twelve months. That is usually enough to say whether an offshore structure helps you or simply adds cost.
If it helps, GPS sets out the jurisdiction, the steps, the realistic timeline and the annual cost of keeping the entity compliant, before you commit to anything. Incorporation is not tax advice or legal advice, and where your position needs either, GPS will say so.
Next step
Let's take your business global.
Tell us where your customers and currencies actually are. We will come back with the jurisdiction that fits, the steps to get there and what it costs to keep running.
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