ExpatEase

Sebastian Arold set up ExpatEase GmbH in Munich in 2023 and is its managing director. The company says he trained as a physicist and worked with expat clients at HORBACH for over a decade first. The service is aimed at international professionals who already live in Germany or are about to move there, at their families and, through a corporate benefits offer, at their employers.

Its work covers the practical side of settling in: financial planning and insurance, tax returns, visas and residence permits, relocation tasks such as registering an address and opening a bank account, and finding a doctor or the right health cover. Financial planning is the core of the business and is delivered together with HORBACH München. In the other areas, ExpatEase either advises clients itself or puts them in touch with partner firms it has vetted. Its about page lists seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Hindi.

Schooling is one of these service lines. ExpatEase gives international families personal advice on the choice between a Kita, a private German school, an international school and a bilingual school, and its overview of schooling in Germany also covers the IB, British and American curricula. Families can start with a free ten-minute introductory call. From there the advice narrows the field to a shortlist of two or three schools or Kitas and covers applications, deadlines and the options for children with special educational needs.