International business structuring, acquisition advisory, and exit planning — for founders and investors who think bigger than one market, one entity, one jurisdiction. FCPA principal-signed. Institutional discipline. Entrepreneurial instinct.
You start from sustainable earnings, not last year’s profit — normalised for owner’s wages, one-offs and anything that leaves with you — then apply a multiple that reflects the real risk and transferability of those earnings. Two businesses with the same profit can be worth very different amounts if one depends entirely on the owner and the other runs without them.
What it depends on
Where judgement stays human: Choosing the right earnings base and a defensible multiple is judgement, not a calculator — and it’s what a buyer’s adviser will pressure-test line by line.
Start from where you are
Most people don’t arrive knowing which service they need — they arrive with a feeling. Pick the one that sounds most like you. No question is silly, and nobody here will judge where things are at.
None of these quite fit? Tell us in your own words — a real person reads every message.
A question worth sitting with
You and your co-founder are aligned today. What happens to your equity when one of you wants out — and will you have papered it before it mattered, or after?
The cheapest time to paper it is before it matters. The most expensive is after.
A demonstration, not a promise
Two founders, aligned today, no shareholders’ agreement — or one signed years ago and never read since.
Ingest
The cap table, any existing agreement and each founder’s stated intentions are read into one view.
Find
No drag-along or tag-along, no agreed valuation method, no leaver provisions — the gaps that turn a friendly exit into a dispute.
Show the working
Every gap is mapped to the exact scenario that triggers it — a founder exit, a death, a deadlock — so the risk is concrete, not abstract.
Deliver
A shareholders’ agreement scope: valuation mechanism, buy-sell, leaver classes and deadlock resolution — court-defensible, mapped to standards.
Hand to the principal
What is fair between founders is a human negotiation; the paper simply makes what you agree enforceable.
What it could not determine
What it could not determine: what a fair split between founders should be. It cannot decide fairness — only make what you agree enforceable and court-defensible.
The judgement stays human
Graham facilitates the founder conversation and signs off the structure.
The tax consequence of any buy-out flows across to Sydney to model before anyone signs.
Most accountants do compliance. We do that too — but the work that excites us is the work that changes trajectories. The cross-border deal that opens a new market. The acquisition structure that saves $400K in tax. The exit plan that turns 20 years of hard work into generational wealth. That's what Ventures is for.
We structure across jurisdictions — Singapore, UK, US, NZ, Hong Kong. Every entity layer justified. Every treaty advantage captured.
Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas pedigree meets CPA public practice. Institutional-grade diligence on every deal, every structure, every exit.
Deals don't wait. Neither do we. One principal, direct access, fast turnaround. No committee. No layers. Just answers.
Six specialist capabilities — each designed for founders, investors, and business owners making high-stakes decisions.
Build global architectures that work across jurisdictions
Find, evaluate, acquire — with financial rigour and deal instinct
Maximise value. Time the exit. Protect the legacy.
Architect the entity stack that powers your global portfolio
Get your house in order before the term sheet arrives
Run your portfolio like an institution — not a spreadsheet
“We thought we needed a big-four firm for our Singapore expansion. Turns out we needed someone who actually understood both sides of the Tasman.”
Cross-border restructuring, AU → SG
“Graham found $340K in CGT concessions we didn't know existed. That changed our entire exit timeline.”
Business sale, Division 152 planning
“Having one principal who understands both the Australian tax side and the international structuring side is genuinely rare.”
International holding structure, 3 jurisdictions
Graham Chee FCPA brings Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas pedigree to every engagement. 18+ years advising on cross-border structures, business valuations, and complex exits. Every piece of work is principal-signed — no junior handoffs, no committee delays.
Graham Chee
FCPA · GRCP · GRCA
Principal & Founder
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Every venture in our portfolio was funded, built, taken to market and is still operated by us. We know what a due diligence process actually asks for, and what it feels like to be the one answering — because we built the tooling for both sides.
Standards-grade financial engineering
Financial analysis an AI cannot fudge, because the AI is not allowed near the arithmetic.
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Working at the regulatory frontier without pretending the regulation is optional.
Read the case studyA trajectory of compound innovation — building from foundational accounting technology to multi-industry AI leadership across cybersecurity, property, healthcare, and governance.
Compound innovation is the story. Not one lucky year — recognised across eight award programs, four industries, and twelve consecutive years of building what matters.