Enabling legislation
Drafting and review of the law or decree that creates zones, defines their powers and protects their stability.
Governments
Offer rules that capital can trust. Keep what a state is for.
For ministries, provinces and investment agencies designing zones that attract long-term investment under national law.
IA precedent
Siena painted what good government produces on the walls of its council hall.
In 1338 the Nine who governed Siena commissioned Ambrogio Lorenzetti to paint the room where they met. On one wall he set the effects of good government: open shops, builders at work, merchants on safe roads and dancing in the street. On another, the ruin that bad government brings.
Modern financial centers built on the same principle, with their own commercial courts or a recognized body of commercial law, have drawn firms and capital to their host countries. The design choices behind those results can be studied, adapted and applied.
A government that delegates defined rule-making to a zone does not give up sovereignty. It uses it.
IIWhat we do
Advisory across the life of a zone program.
Regulatory design
Which areas a zone may regulate, which remain national, and the oversight between them.
Dispute resolution
Commercial courts, arbitration frameworks and enforcement aligned with the New York Convention.
Operator selection
Criteria, process and agreements for choosing and supervising zone operators.
Investor terms
Stability commitments and incentives that are credible to investors and affordable to the treasury.
Program review
Assessment of existing zones and a sequenced plan to raise them to investment grade.
IIIDelegation
Delegation, not surrender.
Every rule a zone makes sits inside a rule the state made first. Select a layer to see who holds it.
A general model. Every country's constitutional arrangements differ, and each engagement starts from the host's own law.
IVInquire
Confidential by default.
Government engagements begin with a private briefing. Nothing is published without your consent.
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