The boutique merchant banking firm specializes in cross-border transactions with a focus on assisting clean tech and energy-related companies expand into China and raise capital.
When Ressano Garcia opened, Aggreko was thought to have been the first private firm to supply power cross-border to utilities in southern Africa.
One trick is to build plants just over the border in a more welcoming country: Sempra, an American firm, has built a regasification plant in Mexico, just across the border from California, where regulators have yet to approve such a facility.
Looked at through the lens of cross-border trade between an American firm suffering devaluationist policies and a foreign importer buying American goods with a rising currency, ultimately the importer is going to have to sell goods back to Americans in order to continue importing.
But now those firms are more broadly vulnerable to both regulation and litigation when any local member firm, now part of a large cross-border group, screws up an audit.
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But there are good reasons to keep the European operations out of insolvency while the company restructures in America, says Mark Hyde, a specialist in cross-border restructuring at Clifford Chance, a law firm.
This would be a logical next step: border bureaucracy and endemic crime make it horribly difficult for any Russian firm to maintain fast and reliable supply lines of components from abroad.
Other rules constraining law firm structure, such as rigid rules on conflicts of interest and restrictions on cross-border practice, may also fall.
"Over the course of the past five years, the FARC has been pushed back into Colombia's less densely populated jungle regions and across the Ecuadorian border, " said Patrick Esteruelas, an analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm.
Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester City have also been linked with Wilson and Smith believes attempts from Premiership managers to lure young talent south of the border is now a fact of life for Scottish clubs, including the Old Firm.
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Yet, ironically for a government that has often run into trouble with American officials for enforcing drug laws too weakly, Mexico continues to stand firm on peyote, preventing any harvesting or possession of the cactus on its side of the border.
Tourists to the U.S. and other cardholders who carry such plastic will still be able to withdraw cash from U.S. ATMs. Consumers are unlikely to see higher costs in the near future, but ATM owners may choose to remove their machines from fraud-prone areas such as tourist destinations and border towns, said Sam Ditzion, chief executive of Tremont Capital Group, a Boston-based firm that tracks the industry.
The London-based market research firm Euromonitor International recently released a report finding that certain countries neighbouring troubled areas, like Algeria, which shares a border with Libya, may be affected.
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