Panama Private Interest Foundations

What is a Panama Private Interest Foundation

We can start with its purpose.

It is essential to clarify that a Panamanian Private Foundation cannot be simply profit-oriented or carry on a particular business. A Private Foundations can sporadically perform certain business acts when such actions are convenient or advantageous to the Foundation and only if the proceeds of such acts are dedicated exclusively to the non commercial purpose or objectives of the Foundation.

Therefore, the purpose of a Private Foundation shall be along the following lines: “To contribute to the costs of upbringing, education, aid, as well as general maintenance or other similar aims of one or more members of one or several families as established in its Regulations.”

In addition to the members of one or several families, the Foundation may benefit other persons or corporate entities, including institutions of any kind. It may also take the necessary provisions for the orderly disposition or succession of its inheritance.

To achieve its objects; the Foundation is authorized to preserve, administer, and invest the Foundation’s assets, being these assets of any kind, particularly of real estate and ownership in other entities, and to conclude all businesses and legal transactions serving the pursuit and the realization of such objects.

The first document: The Foundation Charter.

For those readers who are not familiar with the foundation concept, it consists of the endowment of an estate for a specific purpose determined in the document whereby the Foundation is created and internally organized, known as the Foundation Charter.

Once the Foundation Charter is registered in the Panama Public Registry, the property endowed or endowed becomes an estate separate and apart from its founders by acquiring a juridical autonomy, thus becoming a Private Foundation.

The Bodies.

The person who creates the endowment is known as the “Founder,” and the persons who benefit from the endowment (traditionally the Founder and/or members of his family) are known as “Beneficiaries.” An appointed body known as “The Foundation Council” is entrusted to pursue the objects of the Foundation and its management. Additionally, the client is usually designated as “Protector” with full right to act and represent the Foundation during its lifetime.

The key document: The Regulations.

Contrary to a traditional corporation, a Private Foundation does not have shares. It does not recognize shareholders, and the Founder does not acquire any such rights concerning the Foundation’s property. However, the Law does recognize the Beneficiaries or the persons in whose benefit the Foundation is created, which can include the Founder.

The Foundation Council usually provides the details about names and rights of the beneficiaries of the Foundation through a private and confidential document (that

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