Commercial franchise or licence costs are separate from official immigration charges and professional review. Identify the purpose of each expense.
Do not treat a commercial payment as eligibility
Paying for brand rights does not establish the qualifying company relationship or managerial role. Clarify the review of corporate records before assuming a commercial transaction supports the intended transfer. Build three separate ledgers and keep them separate all the way through.
The first holds commercial payments: brand rights, territory fees, equipment, renewal charges under the licence. The second holds official immigration charges, confirmed as current from official sources at the moment each is paid. The third holds professional review and preparation, itemised by stage so that a later question about scope has an answer.
Hypothetical example: a phlebotomy collection network pays a substantial renewal fee for its brand rights the same month the transfer file is being assembled, and the accounting treats both payments as expansion costs; the merged line then has to be unpicked when someone asks what was actually invested in what. Ask, before any drafting begins, which questions the review is expected to answer and what happens to the fee if the corporate records turn out not to support the relationship the parties assumed. A quotation that cannot be broken into stages is a quotation nobody can check against the work delivered.
Ask for the stages in writing before any retainer is paid.