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Cases · Specialist sectors · Healthcare, life sciences & medical regulation

Obtain or defend a licence that is at risk

Our licence abroad may be suspended or not renewed. What can we do?

WONE Global brings in regulatory counsel to engage the regulator, remedy concerns and challenge decisions where needed.

Countries in the typical case India · United Arab Emirates

The situation

What is happening

A regulator threatens to suspend, refuse or not renew a licence.

What is at stake

Losing a licence can stop the business in that country overnight.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies

A scenario

Healthcare operatorCorporation · from India · in United Arab Emirates

Its licence renewal is delayed over compliance findings.

Where it ends A licence kept.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Licence suspension”“Regulator refusing renewal”“A health regulator has suspended a facility's licence”“A professional licence is at risk of suspension”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global brings in regulatory counsel to engage the regulator, remedy concerns and challenge decisions where needed.

Usually led by Licences, permits and regulators, with Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance and Disputes and arbitration.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1Findings reviewed.
  2. Weeks 2-4Remediation.
  3. Week 5Regulator meeting.
  4. ThenRenewal.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Grounds and procedure
  2. 02Remediation the regulator will accept
  3. 03Appeal routes

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A remediation plan
  • Submissions and meetings
  • Licence renewed or decision appealed

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsLicences, permits and regulators1 market with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedAnti-bribery, sanctions and compliance3 markets with a named lead→
  3. Often involvedDisputes and arbitration5 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Licences, permits and regulators, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Indiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Colombia WONE Global Partner Katherin Diaz Velilla · Co-Founder Brief this Partner →
  4. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  5. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  6. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  7. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Katherin Diaz VelillaBogotá · Colombia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Colombia

Katherin Diaz Velilla

Complete profile

Co-Founder · V&V Associates · Bogotá

International tax attorney and strategic advisor with 12+ years across Colombia's DIAN, Ministry of Finance, Senate, Presidency, and EY. Co-founder of V&V Asociados. Specializes in cross-border tax structuring, transfer…

Kelvin A. EgbeYaoundé · Cameroon

WONE Global Capability Partner · Cameroon

Kelvin A. Egbe

Managing Partner · Midas Law Group · Yaoundé

Attorney specialized in structuring, licensing, control, project permitting, patents, trademarks & Designs registration, venture financing, trade finance, regulatory intelligence & compliance, Financial markets, natural…

Roberto GilardinoShanghai · China

WONE Global Capability Partner · China

Roberto Gilardino

Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries · Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company · Shanghai

Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

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