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Illustrative cross-border scenario · Protecting the international business
Illustrative case study showing how a business objective can be coordinated across countries, capabilities, responsible professionals and milestones.
Protecting the international business: Kenya ↔ Ecuador delivery programme. An illustrative scenario showing how WONE Global coordinates the countries and areas of expertise involved. It does not describe a specific client engagement.
- 2
- areas of work
- 2
- markets
- Multidisciplinary alignment
Scope
Markets and services involved
Markets
Services
Coordination
How the work is sequenced
- 1WONE Global works out the goal with the business: countries, expertise, order of work and risks.
- 2The WONE Global lead in each country and area of expertise is introduced, after conflict checks.
- 3The firms work in a sequence agreed up front, briefing each other and handing over properly.
- 4Your WONE Global contact keeps track of the whole project until it's done.
WONE Global Partners
Who would handle it in these markets
Named leads where they exist today; everything else arranged by WONE Global on request, with the name confirmed before work begins.
On request
WONE Global can find the right Banking & Capital Access professional in Kenya and Ecuador for you.
No WONE Global Partner holds this yet. Send us your requirement: WONE Global confirms whether a vetted Associate firm can act, tells you who it is and checks for conflicts before any work begins.
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The two markets in this matter
The essentials of each market on the topics this kind of work turns on.
Kenya
Essentials · source-checked
- Corporate income tax
- 30% for resident companies and branches (as at mid-2026)
- VAT
- Standard rate 16%; fuel 8% (as at mid-2026)
- Main entity form
- Private company limited by shares; registered branch for foreign companies
- Foreign ownership
- Generally permitted, with ownership limits in some regulated sectors
- Data protection
- Data Protection Act 2019; Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
- New York Convention
- Party since 1989
Ecuador
Essentials · partly source-checked
- Corporate income tax
- 25% standard rate (as at mid-2026)
- VAT
- 15% standard rate (0% for listed items)
- Currency
- US dollar; no general exchange controls
- Payments abroad
- Currency outflow tax (ISD) of 5%, with exemptions
- Main entity forms
- S.A., limited liability company or SAS
- Employee profit share
- 15% of annual net profit
| Topic | Kenya | Ecuador |
|---|---|---|
| Establish & Structure | Most foreign investors set up a private company limited by shares or register their foreign company as a branch with the Business Registration Service. Read more | Foreign investors in Ecuador usually set up a corporation (sociedad anónima), a limited liability company or, since 2020, a simplified joint stock company (SAS). Read more |
| Tax & Statutory | Read more | Read more |
| People, Payroll & Mobility | Read more | Read more |
| Banking, Treasury & Payments | Kenya has no general exchange controls, so capital, profits and dividends can usually be moved abroad through commercial banks once tax is paid. Read more | Ecuador uses the US dollar as its official currency, which removes exchange-rate risk for dollar-based investors. There are no exchange controls in the usual sense, but the currency outflow tax (ISD) makes money leaving the country more expensive. Read more |
| Disputes, Enforcement & Exit | Commercial disputes are heard in the High Court, which has a Commercial and Tax Division, with appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Read more | Civil and commercial proceedings are governed by the General Organic Code of Processes (COGEP), and arbitration and mediation by the Arbitration and Mediation Law. Ecuador is a party to the New York Convention. Read more |
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