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| CORPORATE CLIENTS: RELIABLE AND EARLY REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE |
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Every firm moving into new markets knows that regulatory changes can increase or reduce the profitability and risk of its market development strategies.
There is no escaping the effects of regulatory change. Regulatory reform is underway in almost every country on the globe. In developed countries, market opportunities and restrictions are changing almost weekly due to liberalization, reform, innovations, and market opening. In emerging markets, reforms are even more rapid, although transparency and implementation may be uncertain. Reliable and early information can enable your company to move faster and more confidently in developing new markets.
When you need detailed advice on the effects of regulatory changes, Jacobs and Associates is your guide. We have extensive experience in helping to negotiate regulatory barriers and assessing the market effects of regulatory reform in both developed and transitional economies. Jacobs and Associates and its partners in each country provide assessments and advice to meet your needs. Through products tailored to your needs, we provide the following advantages: |
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- competitive advantage through accurate and fast understanding of the interactions of government actions, changing markets, and international competitiveness;
- lower policy risk through assessments of real-world implications of changes across a broad range of policy areas;
- multi-year strategic planning, through broad assessments of the optimum multi-year reform path, in order to boost credibility, speed up results, support investment planning, improve competitiveness, and reinforce market confidence;
- insight into unfamiliar and complex situations through benchmarking with international good practices and comparison with familiar situations;
- practical, credible, timely advice on resolving specific regulatory problems.
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Our services include:
Development of a regulatory strategy to support our client’s medium-term investment plans in a country or region. Corporations invest in a country or region based on medium-term strategies for increasing market share, expansion, mergers, new products, etc. Success and speed may depend on a supportive regulatory, competition, and trade environment over time. Jacobs and Associates helps corporations prepare a medium-term regulatory strategy focused on identifying regulatory, competition, and trade constraints, assessing risks, and proposing solutions.
Market analysis and surveillance in product and service markets of interest. Firms investing into new markets or new jurisdictions need information on the environment for business, particularly regulatory constraints in the market of interest. Jacobs and Associates conducts market analyses of the business environment, and can follow up with surveillance reports, on a quarterly or biannual basis, of relevant policy changes. This service follows on-going policy developments to provide a stream of timely information to the client.
Counseling and problem resolution to fit client needs. Based on an assessment of the regulatory and market situation, and its experience with working with many governments to promote policy reforms, Jacobs and Associates counsel the client on strategies and reforms to resolve complex regulatory problems. We develop practical solutions to serve client needs, and interact with government officials to promote the solution.
Regulatory support services to companies making regulatory filings or testimony in government procedures. Jacobs and Associates develops arguments and analysis, and assembles information to support pro-market regulatory and structural reforms in legal proceedings or to meet other evidentiary needs. |
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