You are a successful lawyer working in the New York office of a global
law firm advising international clients all around the world on
international commercial transactions and contracts as well as US
economic and trade sanctions. One of your Swiss colleagues sitting in
the firm’s Geneva office calls you to explain that he has received a
request from a very good Swiss client, Red Gold SA, who is willing to
get advice on the best way to enter into a strategical partnership with
an Iranian partner active in the exploitation and packaging of Saffron.
Red Gold SA aims indeed to make a significant investment to support the
exploitation of Safran by its prospective Iranian partner and expects to
export the major part of the Saffron produced and packaged in Iran to
Switzerland.
Red Gold SA has provided the following factual information regarding the
project:
1. The name of the Iranian company which would be the main partner in
the project is Rowhani Saffron.
2. Rowhani Saffron works together with several local Iranian farmers who
have their own exploitation fields.
3. Red Gold SA would prefer to establish a direct presence on the ground
to be able to keep control over the local operations in Iran. Red Gold
SA remains flexible however to adopt an alternative way if the
establishment of a direct presence would not be recommended currently.
4. Red Gold SA is a Swiss company that has no subsidiaries in the US.
5. Red Gold SA aims to ask its main bank, HSBC in Geneva, for a credit
to finance the project.
Your Swiss colleague asks you very kindly whether you could work
together with him on that case advising the Swiss client on the best way
to implement its project and the associated risks. He has to provide
the client with a high-level note of a maximum of two pages until the
end of the week.
Note to the students: please present your answers in the form of a
high-level note of a maximum of two pages including the advice to the
Swiss client on the best way to implement the project and the associated
risks.
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