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BangladeshIndia
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India ↔ United Arab Emirates A regional hub in the UAEIndia ↔ Saudi Arabia A Saudi entity for government workUAE ↔ United Kingdom A UK subsidiary
24 corridors
India ↔ United Arab EmiratesIndia ↔ Saudi ArabiaChina ↔ Southeast AsiaUnited Kingdom ↔ GCCGermany ↔ GCCUnited States ↔ MexicoUnited States ↔ Latin AmericaEurope ↔ AfricaJapan ↔ Southeast AsiaSingapore ↔ IndiaGCC ↔ AfricaChina ↔ AfricaChina ↔ GCCIndia ↔ AfricaEurope ↔ IndiaNordics ↔ GCCSouth Korea ↔ GCCUnited States ↔ BrazilUnited States ↔ Caribbean & Central AmericaAustralia ↔ Southeast AsiaUAE ↔ EuropeUAE ↔ United KingdomSaudi Arabia ↔ United StatesIndia ↔ United States
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Cases · Tax, finance & assurance · Audit, assurance & financial integrity

Review controls before the next growth phase

Are our controls abroad strong enough before we grow further?

WONE Global reviews governance, approvals, tax and compliance controls in each country and gives a prioritised list of fixes, then helps put them in place.

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Countries in the typical case India · Singapore · United Arab Emirates · United States

The situation

What is happening

What is at stake

Weak controls surface at the worst time: in due diligence, an audit or a fraud.

A scenario

Growth company preparing to raiseFounder-led company · from India · in Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United States

It finds that one person approves payments abroad. Investors will see that in due diligence.

Where it ends Controls investors will accept.

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

Also asked as “Internal controls review for foreign subsidiaries”“What should we fix before raising capital or expanding?”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global reviews governance, approvals, tax and compliance controls in each country and gives a prioritised list of fixes, then helps put them in place.

Usually led by Risk, Compliance & Financial Integrity, with Audit & Assurance and Accounting, Reporting & Statutory Compliance.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1WONE Global reviews controls in each country.
  2. Week 2Prioritised list of fixes.
  3. Weeks 3-6Fixes put in place locally.
  4. ThenEvidence ready for investors.

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

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Which controls are informal and need formalising
  2. 02Where authority and segregation of duties are thin
  3. 03What auditors, lenders or investors will look at

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A controls gap review across entities
  • Prioritised fixes with owners
  • A control framework ready for scrutiny

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 leadsRisk, Compliance & Financial Integrity11 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedAudit & Assurance17 markets with a named lead→
  3. Often involvedAccounting, Reporting & Statutory Compliance21 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Risk, Compliance & Financial Integrity, 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 WONE Global Partner Bhavik Bhanushali · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  2. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case WONE Global Partner Priju Dominic · CEO & Founding Partner Brief this Partner →
  3. Singaporein the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  4. United Statesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  5. Brazil WONE Global Partner Luis Felipe Balieiro Lima · Partner Brief this Partner →
  6. Cameroon WONE Global Partner Kelvin A. Egbe · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  7. China WONE Global Partner Roberto Gilardino · Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries Brief this Partner →
  8. Italy WONE Global Partner Stefano Modena · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  9. Jordan WONE Global Partner Osama Abu Shrieha · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  10. Luxembourg WONE Global Partner Bruno Abbate · Owner - Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  11. Saudi Arabia WONE Global Partner Abdulrahim bin Saleh Al-Zahrani · Founding Partner & General Manager Brief this Partner →
  12. South Africa WONE Global Partner Johan Beer · Partner Brief this Partner →
  13. Zimbabwe WONE Global Partner Thompson Mucheki · Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  14. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

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

Kelvin A. EgbeYaoundé · Cameroon

WONE Global 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…

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Roberto GilardinoShanghai · China

WONE Global 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).

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Where this case connects

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Worked examples

How it goes in practice

Researched corridor journeys, and representative scenarios on the same subject. None is a specific client’s matter.

Audit, assurance & financial integrity

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UNBOUNDED™ · Global Business Circuit™

Work through India ↔ United Arab Emirates with the leaders doing it.

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The Global Business Circuit™

One corridor, 60 minutes online, 12 senior business leaders. The leaders' own questions set the agenda; market and professional perspectives join only where the questions call for them.

This corridor on UNBOUNDED™Access, intelligence and expertise around the relationship between these markets.

Next sessions on this corridor

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