• A U.S. insurance company made a nearly $1 billion acquisition of a privatized Mexican insurance company.
• A major energy company restructured its investment in Guatemala.
• A waste management company navigated U.S. and Mexican bureaucracy to establish a secondary sewage treatment plant.
• A major energy company attempted to establish liquified natural gas (LNG) power facilities in Latin America.
• A major Asia-based global automotive company established marketing, distribution and manufacturing facilities in Mexico.
• A U.S. transportation company established a joint venture in Mexico.
• A multinational energy company resolved an investment dispute in Lithuania.


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• An international gaming and hospitality client develop and implement a strategic plan to build resort facilities in Latin America and Asia.
• A Brazilian import/export business conduct market analysis and identify potential business partners and suppliers in Brazil and the U.S.
• A new-to-foreign-markets gaming company assess country-specific opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Several priority industries in an African country develop an investment strategy and implementation plan.
• Produce a trilateral study of the Brazilian private sector’s interests regarding trade with India and South Africa.
• A Silicon Valley software company design a business development strategy to expand its sales in Asia.
  
  
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Knowledge of global trade patterns and regulations, aids ManattJones professionals in:

• Helping a new foreign deepwater container port in the Caribbean with customs modernization and with preferential recognition from the U.S. Government.
• Counseling Mexican agricultural producers on U.S. market opportunities.
• Advising a Swedish multinational in Brazil on trade agreements negotiated by Brazil, in particular the Mercosul-India Preferential Trade Agreement.
• Identified potential manufacturers and global distributors for a new food product.
• Creating a strategic plan for a major U.S.-based international development firm on the policy aspects of their small and medium-enterprise export program in the North and Northeast of Brazil.
• Identifying investors in and buyers of mobile power generating units in Latin America, Japan and the Philippines.
• Advising a Brazilian regional aircraft manufacturer in a major dispute with a Canadian competitor at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• Helping a textile manufacturer develop strategies to increase its U.S. market access and receive U.S. tariff benefits.
• Supporting a manufacturing management company in extending its training and partnership program to Mexico.
• Counseling, representing and assisting a major State Federation of Industries in Brazil on matters relating to global trade and investment.
  
  
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• Clients remove investment barriers targeting U.S. multinationals in Central American countries.
• A group of Caribbean-based companies organize to identify business opportunities, partners and access to capital markets and to support business-enhancing trade and policy initiatives.
• Governments in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia by assessing and proposing policies for capacity-building, regulatory overhaul nad trade promotion for the services sector.
• Hollywood entertainment conglomerate develop an advocacy strategy to strengthen local government enforcement to counter optical disc piracy in a Southeast Asian country.
  
  
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