Services

AML Screening

OCRA offers AML screening services to help small and medium-sized enterprises affordably manage reputational, compliance and legal risk by screening against PEPs, sanctions, SDNs and criminal watch lists Premium databases including proprietary information. Adverse media database...

Companies, Trusts & Foundations

Companies, Trusts & Foundations As a group of legal, accounting and business specialists, we offer our global knowledge of corporate and tax law and insights into the many tax planning challenges our clients face. As such,...

Offshore Bank Accounts

Bank Introductions & Account Management Services For over 40 years, OCRA Worldwide has been assisting clients to establish and administer offshore and international bank accounts and has developed useful expertise in identifying and working with suitable...

Global Business

Offshore Contractors & Expatriates

Offshore Contractors & Expatriates We understand that your priorities centre on ensuring the security of your income and assets, and the structuring of your finances for maximum tax efficiency. OCRA Worldwide has been a trusted service...

High Net-worth Individuals

High Net-worth Individuals While wealth offers access to many forms of investment such as property, yacht ownership and aircraft ownership, it also provides unique challenges. If you have in excess of 5 million US Dollars of...

Professional Intermediaries

Consulting to Professional Advisors OCRA Worldwide has spent over four decades building a carefully selected global network of professional clients that includes accountants, lawyers, banks, trust companies, fiduciaries, independent financial advisors and tax advisors. Intermediaries work...

Aircraft Registration & Management

Aircraft Registration & Management We are a global provider of aircraft ownership solutions and are positioned to help aircraft and helicopter owners obtain an efficient and fiscally responsible ownership solution. OCRA Aerospace forms the Aircraft Services...

Yacht Registration & Management

Yacht & Ship Registration & Management Our offices in Mauritius and Seychelles provide yacht and ship ownership solutions including registration, management & administration and structuring ownership to maximise operational efficiency and mitigate tax. Structuring an ownership solution...

Request a free consultation

We look forward to welcoming you to our world and extending our portfolio of services to you.

Enquire Now

Submit your enquiry

Name

How would you like to be contacted?

Contact number

Contact Number

What date would be convenient to call you?

What time would you like to be called?

Message

reCAPTCHA

OCRA Worldwide respects your privacy. Your details will never be disclosed to any third party for any purpose without your prior written consent.

OCRA Worldwide announces strategic merger with Acclime

17^th November 2022, Hong Kong - OCRA Worldwide (OCRA), announces today that it has completed the strategic merger with Asia Pacific’s premier corporate services provider Acclime (www.acclime.com). This is the latest step in Acclime’s active expansion as the Asia specialist in compliance and corporate services throughout the region.

Established in 1975 and led by Bart Dekker and Dharmesh Naik, OCRA is one of the industry pioneers in the corporate services sector with a full suite of corporate services from company formation, company secretarial support, accounting, and HR services. Over the past 40 years, OCRA has become a truly global business by providing very personalised services to their clients, most of whom are private investors or companies investing abroad.

From its founding base in Europe, OCRA has morphed over the past decade to focus on the faster growing markets of Asia and the Indian Ocean, and currently has teams in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Mauritius and the Seychelles with around 80 staff. Additionally, OCRA is licensed in Samoa and the UAE to provide incorporation services to clients and referral partners.

"The high quality of the team, the interesting gateway jurisdictions of Mauritius and UAE which are important investment hubs for Africa and India, and the synergy of offering OCRA clients more services and Asian locations for expanding their business were the strategic logic for Acclime's interest in acquiring OCRA," said Martin Crawford, CEO and Co-Founder of Acclime. "We look forward to introducing OCRA’s corporate clients to our regional experts in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam," he added.

The sale of the business was managed by the corporate advisory team of Mazars in London (Paul Joyce & Fred Dearden), acting for the ultimate shareholder of OCRA, and was opened for bids. "Acclime was chosen as the preferred bidder as the team recognised the cultural similarities, with high quality, personalised services at the core," said Bart Dekker, OCRA’s Managing Director, Asia Pacific. Dharmesh Naik, OCRA's Managing Director, Middle East and Indian Ocean, added, "We are excited and delighted to become an integral part of a large international team with the established resources across Acclime's network, and to execute the transaction in line with OCRA's long term succession plan in the interest of all of our stakeholders."

OCRA will operate as an independent business unit within Acclime, supported by funding, IT and marketing initiatives that will grow the business further. Bart Dekker and Dharmesh Naik will remain running the business post-acquisition.

The transaction is subjected to regulatory approvals in several locations and Acclime is expected to complete the acquisition by the end of 2022.

About OCRA
Established in 1975, OCRA is one of the industry pioneers in the corporate services sector with a full suite of corporate services from company formation, company secretarial support, accounting and HR services. For over 40 years, OCRA has been providing personalised services to its clients, most of whom are private investors or companies investing abroad.

About Acclime
Acclime, the premier corporate services provider in Asia, helps corporate and private clients to advance their businesses and interests in difficult-to-navigate markets in emerging Asia. The company’s vision is to reinvent the corporate services sector with innovative solutions that are seamlessly delivered to the highest global standards.

Enquiries: enquiries@ocra.com