ManattJones Global Strategies

Representative Matters

ManattJones helps client create or expand global investment and trade, identify and exploit new market opportunities, or pursue advocacy strategies to facilitate country-by-country growth. Our record of successes demonstrates our capabilities to serve clients throughout the world.

Global Investment 
With the support of the professionals at ManattJones:

• 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 major energy company proposed a liquified natural gas (LNG) power facility 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.
• A biopharmaceutical company launched commercial presences in Latin America, Africa, And Central Europe.
• A U.S. investment fund identified ethanol investments in the Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Identified investors in and buyers of mobile power generating units in Latin America, Japan and the Philippines.

Global Market Assessment
ManattJones professionals provided the guidance and insight to help:

• 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 for trade with India and South Africa.
• A Silicon Valley software company design a business development strategy to expand its sales in Asia.
• A company complete due diligence on potential business partners in Mexico.
• An non-U.S. electronic payments company target business niches in U.S. and Mexico.
• A Middle Eastern company identify and evaluate aquaculture opportunities in the Dominican Republic.

Global Trade
Knowledge of global trade patterns, policies, priorities, and regulations allows ManattJones professionals to support clients:

• Establishing a new foreign deepwater container port in the Caribbean with preferential recognition from the U.S. Government.
• Advising a Swedish multinational in Brazil on trade agreements negotiated by Brazil, in particular the Mercosul-India Preferential Trade Agreement.
• Identifying potential manufacturers and global distributors for a new food product.
• By creating a strategic plan for a major U.S.-based international development firm on the policy aspects of its small and medium-enterprise export program in the North and Northeast of Brazil.
• In advising a Brazilian regional aircraft manufacturer in a major dispute with a Canadian competitor at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• Developing a textile manufacturer's strategies to increase its U.S. market access and receive U.S. tariff benefits.
• Extending a manufacturing management company's training and partnership program to Mexico.
• By counseling, representing and assisting a major State Federation of Industries in Brazil on matters relating to global trade and investment.
• From China that solar panel manufacturers to enter the U.S. market.

Global Advocacy
Skilled in public policy and government, ManattJones professionals helped:

• A multinational company reduce risks from lack of transparency in judicial proceedings.
• A compay in a highly-regulated industry ensure fairness and openness in public procurement processes.
• A company design a CSR/philanthropy program as a component of a market entry strategy.
• An acquirer navigate Mexico's regulatory processes to reduce liability exposure from the acquired company.
• 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, and 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.