please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may be confusing or unclear to readers . please help us clarify the article ; suggestions may be found on the talk page . december 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message simple group type private limited liability founded gibraltar incorporation 1999 headquarters gibraltar gibraltar key people fabien b n dicte suant chairman stephen kurphy ceo products tax planning offshore business revenue eur 4.5 million 2006 number of employees undisclosed website www.simplegroup.com simple group limited is a conglomeration of separately run companies that each has its core area in tax planning . the core business areas are legal services fiduciary activities offshore banking offshore outsourcing corporate service and offshore business services . the date of incorporation is listed as 1999 by companies house of gibraltar 1 who class it as a holding company ; however it is understood that simple group s business and trading activities date to the second part of the 90s probably as an incorporated body . simple group limited is a conglomerate that cultivate secrecy they are not listed on any stock exchange and the group is owned by a complicated series of offshore trusts and companies in order to protect the owners . the sunday times stated that simple group s interests could be evaluated at 77 million ; the shareholders are understood to be a group of swiss private banks owners . each of the companies operating under the simple group umbrella are independent with most being majority owned by simple group while previous owners still holds minority stakes . occasionally they simply licenses the simple brand to a company that has purchased a division or service from them . with a few exceptions none of the companies began as wholly owned simple group s subsidiaries but instead where acquired from different previous owners . simple brands under various ownership edit chaplin b n dicte & co. this is simple group s flagship brand . owned chaplin b n dicte & co. is a legal services firm specialised in tax planning and offshore law . the firm is based in the city of london united kingdom with satellite representation in riga latvia and victoria seychelles . fbs banking plc offshore banking operations . fbs banking was acquired by simple group in 2001 for an undisclosed amount after a fierce battle with the royal bank of scotland group . fbs banking is registered in seychelles and operate from latvia and england . they are in fact agents of offshore or investments banks mostly in switzerland monaco and the channel island . link the world limited professional due diligence consultants for the fiduciary industry . link the world was one of the first company acquired by simple group but is the least profitable of them as no recorded profits were ever reported on their financial statements . it is widely believed that simple group actually owned other fiduciary firms but more precise information seams impossible to obtain . simple business services outsourcing business fully owned by simple group simple business services cater for subcontracting services from the baltic states in east europe . fresh offshore low cost offshore companies incorporation and management . the brand were bought from swiss giant ubs in 2007 but simple group never started trading under this name . footnotes edit simple group search company number 80416 . government of gibraltar . retrieved 2008 01 01 . external links edit official website official registrar of companies in gibraltar retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title simple group & oldid 739586002 categories financial services companieshidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from december 2007all wikipedia articles needing clarificationarticles needing additional references from december 2007all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 15 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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