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Cases · Tax, finance & assurance · Due diligence, valuation & forensic accounting

Screen a high-risk counterparty

Can we safely do business with this company abroad?

WONE Global checks ownership, sanctions, litigation, licences and reputation through sources and professionals in the counterparty's own country, and tells you what to require in the contract.

Countries in the typical case Italy · United Arab Emirates

The situation

What is happening

What is at stake

An unchecked partner can expose you to sanctions, fraud or corruption risk that becomes yours once you sign.

A scenario

ManufacturerMid-sized company · from Italy · in United Arab Emirates

A new distributor with unclear ownership has approached it.

Where it ends A partner you know before you sign.

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

Also asked as “Due diligence on a foreign partner”“Background check on a counterparty”“We need integrity due diligence on an overseas partner”“A business wants independent screening of potential distributors”“We need to validate a potential joint venture partner”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global checks ownership, sanctions, litigation, licences and reputation through sources and professionals in the counterparty's own country, and tells you what to require in the contract.

Usually led by Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, with Market research and partner checks and Contracts and commercial law.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1WONE Global checks ownership and sanctions locally.
  2. Week 1Litigation and reputation checked.
  3. Week 2Findings.
  4. ThenContract protections.

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

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Ownership, sanctions and reputational exposure
  2. 02What contractual protections to require
  3. 03Whether to proceed

Outcomes

What you receive

  • Counterparty screening findings
  • Contract protections
  • A documented decision

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 leadsAnti-bribery, sanctions and compliance3 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedMarket research and partner checksArranged on request→
  3. Often involvedContracts and commercial law12 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, 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. Italyin 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. Cameroon WONE Global Partner Kelvin A. Egbe · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  4. China WONE Global Partner Roberto Gilardino · Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries Brief this Partner →
  5. Luxembourg WONE Global Partner Bruno Abbate · Owner - Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  6. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  7. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. 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 →

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. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

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