How much do you charge for your services?
Every situation is unique and requires a certain amount of time and attention in order to achieve Your stated objectives. We engage with other like-mind teams with a simple goal – share the knowledge we have accumulated, and the network we have built – because it’s the right thing to do. Let’s start there and create a path that works for everyone!
What kind of consulting services do you offer?
Through our firm and established relationships we have created over the decades, we can offer and have access to a myriad of specialized services.
Corporate intelligence through investigative work, also known as corporate investigations, involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information to help businesses make informed decisions and mitigate risks. These investigations can uncover issues related to making sound investment decisions, and other activities that might negatively impact a company. Here are the key aspects of business intelligence through this work:
- Due Diligence: Working closely with Private Equity, Venture Capital, Family Offices, and Law Firms to offer services for
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Conducting thorough due diligence to evaluate the integrity, performance, and reputation of potential acquisition targets, as well as the principals with the organization.
- Third-Party Relationships: Assessing the reliability and credibility of potential business partners, banks and investment banks, law firms and CPA’s, and suppliers or clients. Oftentimes this means traveling to visit, inspect, and evaluate these relationships first hand.
- Public Company Listings: SPAC’s, IPO’s, Reg D offerings and other investment vehicles requiring regulatory oversight.
- Family Office Advisory:
- Traditional Banking and Investment Banking: Researching and evaluating the credit worthiness, stability and long term viability of institutions globally.
- Law Firms, Accounting Firms and Consultants: In depth research based upon Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection techniques, access to various legal databases, and other forensic sources we have access to.
- Physical Asset Acquisition, Management and Protection: Provision of discreet services catering to celebrities, athletes, HNW and UHNW family offices seeking to maintain a certain level of privacy.
How do you ensure my privacy?
High net worth individuals (HNWIs) seeking discretion in their financial transactions can employ several strategies and structures to ensure privacy and confidentiality. Here are some of the best practices:
1. Use of Trusts
- Discretionary Trusts: These trusts provide significant privacy as the beneficiaries do not have control over the trust’s assets. The trustee manages the assets and can distribute them at their discretion.
- Blind Trusts: The settlor has no knowledge or control over the management of the trust assets, adding an extra layer of privacy.
2. Private Banking Services
- Confidential Accounts: Private banks often offer high levels of discretion and confidentiality for their clients.
- Personalized Service: Private bankers provide tailored services that ensure minimal disclosure of the client’s identity and transactions.
3. Offshore Banking
- Secrecy Jurisdictions: Some jurisdictions, like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Singapore, have strict bank secrecy laws that protect client information.
- Offshore Companies and Trusts: Using offshore entities can add layers of separation between the individual’s name and their assets.
4. Use of Legal Entities
- Limited Liability Companies (LLCs): Holding assets through LLCs can provide a layer of privacy, as the LLC’s name is used in transactions rather than the individual’s.
- Family Offices: Establishing a family office can centralize and privatize financial management.
5. Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- With Service Providers: Ensure that all service providers, including financial advisors, accountants, and lawyers, sign robust NDAs.
- Transaction Counterparties: Use NDAs in significant transactions to ensure all parties maintain confidentiality.
6. Cryptocurrencies
- Privacy Coins: Cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash offer enhanced privacy features.
- Bitcoin and Mixing Services: While Bitcoin is not entirely anonymous, using mixing services can help obscure transaction trails.
7. Legal and Financial Advisors
- Top-Tier Law Firms: Engaging reputable law firms that specialize in wealth management can provide legal structures designed for maximum discretion.
- Tax Advisors: Experienced tax advisors can help navigate tax obligations while maintaining privacy.
8. Alternative Investments
- Art and Collectibles: Investing in physical assets like art or collectibles can offer privacy, as these transactions often do not require public disclosure.
- Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Participating in private equity or hedge funds can offer more anonymity compared to public markets.
9. Data Security Measures
- Secure Communication Channels: Use encrypted communication tools and secure email services.
- Cybersecurity: Implement robust cybersecurity measures to protect financial information from breaches.
10. Philanthropic Foundations
- Private Foundations: Establishing private foundations can allow HNWIs to make charitable contributions discreetly.
Important Considerations
- Compliance: Ensure that all privacy measures comply with relevant laws and regulations to avoid legal issues.
- Tax Obligations: Seek advice to ensure that privacy measures do not lead to tax evasion accusations.
- Ethical Considerations: Balance the need for privacy with ethical considerations to avoid potential negative publicity or reputational damage.
By employing a combination of these strategies, HNWIs can achieve a high level of discretion in their financial transactions while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Are these services available only in Florida?
No, we have an extensive global network of trusted sources, partners, and professionals with whom we have personally conducted significant transactions. As you would imagine, most of our clients expect and receive the highest levels of discretion when it comes to disclosing details.
What is Cryptocurrency and De-fi?
Cryptocurrency, sometimes called crypto-currency or crypto, is any form of currency that exists digitally or virtually and uses cryptography to secure transactions. Cryptocurrencies don’t have a central issuing or regulating authority, instead using a decentralized system to record transactions and issue new units. The underlying technology is referred to as blockchain technology.
A blockchain is a distributed database that is shared among the nodes of a computer network. As a database, a blockchain stores information electronically in digital format. Blockchains are best known for their crucial role in cryptocurrency systems, such as Bitcoin, for maintaining a secure and decentralized record of transactions. The innovation with a blockchain is that it guarantees the fidelity and security of a record of data and generates trust without the need for a trusted third party.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial technology based on secure distributed ledgers similar to those used by cryptocurrencies. The system removes the control banks and institutions have on money, financial products, and financial services.
Privacy Policy
This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use the website at www.danlounsbury.com, including subdomains (our “Website”) and our related services (the “Services”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website, and any other website affiliated with Us.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website and between you and the Company.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.
- When you interact directly with us offline or through other means including social media platforms, and any application.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or through any communication that you may have with one of our partners, such as a financial service provider.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO AGREE TO OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES, DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES. By accessing or using this Website or any of our Services, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY below).Your continued use of this Website or any of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy frequently for updates.
Personal Information Collected. We may collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) to use as part of our Service. This Personal Information may include, but is not limited to:
- name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number; and/or
- any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
Other Information Collected. We may also collect the following information (together with Personal Information, “User Information”):
- information about you but individually does not identify you, such as your income and your credit score;
- information that you choose to provide about a third party that is not seeking financial information; and/or
- information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
You may still access and use our Website and Services if you choose not to provide us with any of the above User Information, but some of our Website features and Services may not be available to you and may not be as accurate or complete. You may provide information about other people, such as their name and email address. This information is used for whatever reason it may have been provided. The third party may contact us at support@palmbchcap.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, for example, financial service providers that we partner with to provide you with information about certain financial products and services. The information that we receive from these third parties will depend on the policies of that third party service.
Information You Provide to Us. The User Information we collect on or through our Website or Services may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting a match to specific financial service providers, or posting material. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website or Services.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website or any of our Services.
- Your search queries on the Website.
This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (“California Privacy Notice”) supplements our Privacy Policy. We have adopted this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. It applies only to visitors, users, clients, and other persons if they are California consumers, as defined in the CCPA, and only to “personal information” that is subject to the CCPA (“Personal Information”).Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this California Privacy Notice.
Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It
We may collect some or all of the following categories of Personal Information about California consumers:
Category A:Identifiers, such as a name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Category B:Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) (“CCR Data”), such as name, signature, contact information, education, employment, employment history, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, financial information such as bank account number, medical information, or health information.
Category C:Protected Classification characteristics under California or federal law (“Protected Classification Characteristics”), such as age, citizenship, gender, marital status, physical illness, mental illness or disabilities, and veteran status.
Category D:Commercial Information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Category E:Biometric Information, which means physiological, biological, or information that can be used to establish a person’s identity, including fingerprints; face, hand, palm or vein pattern imagery; voice recordings; or sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.
Category F:Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (“Network Activity”), such as website information, browsing history, search history, or information relating to consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.
Category G: Geolocation data, such as device location, IP location, or other information a person’s physical location or movements.
Please note: Our Website and Services are intended to be accessed and used only by adults and are not offered or directed to minors. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18, and you should not provide us with any information regarding an individual under the age of 18.