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THE WORLD, CONNECTED BY WORK

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Start with a country and move into the business issues, expertise and people around it.

MARKET ENTRY

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18 AREAS OF EXPERTISE

The professional work a cross-border business actually needs.

Each area of expertise connects to the markets, business situations and professionals around it.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

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INDUSTRY CONTEXT

Cross-border work changes with the economics of the industry.

Ten broad industry groups open into one hundred detailed business activities and markets.

SECTOR DETAIL

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BETWEEN MARKETS

Business corridors are where cross-border work becomes real.

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CORRIDOR VIEW

Two markets. One connected business objective.

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PEOPLE AROUND THE OBJECTIVE

Find the exact professional relationship for the work.

People, firms and specialists should surface around context — not as an isolated directory.

PEOPLE

People are part of the answer, not a separate search.

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KNOW · FIND · SOLVE

Intelligence that points toward a business decision.

Market signals, practical context, client work and conversations around live cross-border decisions.

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Move from insight to the next useful step.

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WONE / REGIONAL OPERATING VIEW
REGION.

North America

North America combines the world's deepest capital markets and unified USMCA trade framework with complex federal and state/provincial tax, corporate and regulatory divergence.

North America
North America · WONE REGIONAL VIEW
REGIONAL EXECUTIVE READING
MARKETS IN VIEW 3 Contained in canonical region
COMPARE-READY MARKETS 0 8+ verified lenses available
ACTIVE CORRIDORS 6 Exact regional intersections
CURRENT REVIEWED SIGNALS 6 Active governance alerts
WHAT MATTERS ACROSS THE REGION NOW

Multi-market strategic themes shaping decisions across North America.

Reviewed governance, regulatory and cross-border developments shaping regional operational risk.

CFIUS national security

Regional developments around CFIUS national security require leaders to compare jurisdiction-specific rules before committing to operational expansion or cross-border contracting. WONE business implication: Corporate structure, regulatory licensing, and compliance frameworks must be tailored country by country.

Reviewed Sep 2026
state tax nexus

Regional developments around state tax nexus require leaders to compare jurisdiction-specific rules before committing to operational expansion or cross-border contracting. WONE business implication: Corporate structure, regulatory licensing, and compliance frameworks must be tailored country by country.

Reviewed Sep 2026
USMCA rules of origin

Regional developments around USMCA rules of origin require leaders to compare jurisdiction-specific rules before committing to operational expansion or cross-border contracting. WONE business implication: Corporate structure, regulatory licensing, and compliance frameworks must be tailored country by country.

Reviewed Sep 2026
IP litigation

Regional developments around IP litigation require leaders to compare jurisdiction-specific rules before committing to operational expansion or cross-border contracting. WONE business implication: Corporate structure, regulatory licensing, and compliance frameworks must be tailored country by country.

Reviewed Sep 2026
capital markets

Regional developments around capital markets require leaders to compare jurisdiction-specific rules before committing to operational expansion or cross-border contracting. WONE business implication: Corporate structure, regulatory licensing, and compliance frameworks must be tailored country by country.

Reviewed Sep 2026
MARKET CONTRASTS

The region is useful because the markets are not the same.

See where decisions diverge across taxation, corporate ownership, workforce quotas, sector regulators, foreign exchange oversight and dispute resolution across North America.

MARKET STATUS WHERE IT DIFFERS ACTION
United States DISCOVERY

21% federal corporate tax + state income and franchise taxes; Delaware corporate governance; CFIUS inbound investment scrutiny; extensive discovery litigation.

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Canada DISCOVERY

Federal plus provincial corporate tax (~26.5%); Investment Canada Act national security reviews; Canadian common law and Quebec civil law.

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Mexico DISCOVERY

30% corporate income tax rate; IMMEX nearshoring manufacturing program; USMCA rules of origin; federal labor reform outsourcing restrictions.

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REGIONAL BUSINESS MOMENTS

Business situations with distinct requirements in North America.

Operational moments where cross-border execution cannot rely on standard global templates.

STRATEGIC MOMENT 01

US Market Expansion & State Nexus

Why region-specific: Choosing between Delaware C-Corp vs state registration based on where employees, inventory and physical nexus reside.

Regional Connections
REGIONAL CONNECTIONS

Markets become more useful when you can see where the business is going next.

Use a corridor to compare two markets around the same business objective.

EXPLORE BUSINESS CORRIDORS
CORRIDORS THROUGH THE REGION

Active business corridors linking markets in North America.

Showing only corridors where at least one endpoint is a canonical market in this region.

OPERATING ACROSS BORDERS?

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