Whether it’s assessing a new foreign grantor trust client, setting up a new foreign biotech manufacturing plant or soliciting funds for a private equity investment in an offshore business, a risk assessment must be made regarding the foreign jurisdiction. If you haven’t had previous experience with the jurisdiction, you may be left scratching your head reviewing government and non-governmental organization (NGO) lists. Given that the press frequently pounces on the concept o

Have you heard the story about the ex-pat driving home along a European country road who hit a telephone pole? How about the part of the story where the power was knocked out to the adjacent farm disrupting the sleep of the farmer’s cows and resulting in the farmer threatening to sue the ex-pat for the cow’s sleep deprivation? And then there was the ex-pat assigned to a Central American country who discovered (just before fleeing out the bedroom window) that his paramour was