"You don't want the poetic answer," she said, "you want the practical one."
She picked up a slim brochure from the stack on her desk and fanned it out like a dealer shuffling cards. "For a fully turnkey package. Incorporation, nominee director, company secretary, registered address, basic nominee shareholding structure, and premium introductions to private banking, our standard fee is S$400,000. That covers the immediate incorporation work and the first year of nominee services. There will be annual fees thereafter for maintenance, nominee retainer, accounting and compliance, but we'll spell that out in the engagement letter."
Timothy stared at the number as if it might rearrange itself into something smaller. Four hundred thousand Singapore dollars. In pesos it read like small change next to eight billion, but it was still a lot of money on a student's scale.
