"AAB received an enquiry to assist a prospective client with an expansion into the U.S. The company is headquartered in the Middle East and has never provided services outside of this area, so it required support from both a corporate structuring perspective and the need to move employees and contractors across international borders.

After an initial call, we established that a collaborative approach would be best for the client, with AAB partnering with a provider in the U.S. who could support the initial corporate setup and ongoing compliance. Our thoughts immediately turned to Weaver (Texas, USA - TIAG), with whom we have a successful history of referrals and working together. With support from Vince Houk and Craig Epstein, in particular, we secured the client and provided them with the services they needed to establish themselves in the U.S. market. With AAB providing global payroll, employment tax and employee compliance services and Weaver advising from an entity perspective, we were able to offer an end-to-end service utilizing the skills and experience of both firms but aligned as part of the TAG Alliances.

Recently, this same client has come back to AAB to ask for a number of additional services relating to contractors and international tax advice now that their business has taken off in the U.S. Once again, a joint proposal for support between AAB and Weaver was deemed the best approach, and with the feedback from the client the first time around being so positive, this has now resulted in terms being agreed and a project to be delivered in the coming months and beyond."

––Douglas Michael; AAB (Scotland - TIAG)

"We had a client that we were courting. Before they retained us, they came to us with an urgent need for Indian litigation counsel. Our ability to refer them to fellow TAGLaw member Kochhar & Co. (India - TAGLaw), resulted in our being bumped to the top of their referral list.

––Chad Kopach; Blaney McMurtry LLP (Ontario, Canada - TAGLaw)

"von Briesen & Roper is one of the founding members of TAG Alliances and has enjoyed the benefits of the association through inbound and outbound referrals, insights from conferences and specialty groups, experiences shared during management tracking meetings, and so many other opportunities. The advantages of an international alliance of subject matter experts are apparent to us regularly. We have relied on our colleagues in jurisdictions worldwide, from Australia, India, China, Japan, the UAE, Europe, Canada, and, of course, with our stateside friends.

One of our most recent examples involved a Wisconsin-based client with manufacturing operations nationwide and in Canada. An employee suffered a serious workplace injury that required notification to the Canadian counterpart to our OSHA. Steve Nelson of von Briesen handles workplace injury investigations across the USA, but due to the Canadian situs of the injury and differing Canadian regulations and processes before the Ministry of Labour; Steve reached out to our TAGLaw affiliate Blaney McMurtry LLP (Ontario, Canada). Jack Siegel at Blaney McMurtry was very responsive and provided the necessary information to educate our client about what it may expect in terms of potential citations, penalties, next steps, gathering information, etc. We anticipate our client will use Blaney McMurtry once things heat up—an overall great experience.

Thanks to Jack at Blaney McMurtry and all of our TAG Alliances affiliates upon whom we have relied over the many years of our membership."

––David J. Edquist; von Briesen & Roper, s.c. (Wisconsin, USA - TAGLaw)

"My success story involves a recent collaboration on the financing and purchase of a Canadian and U.S. company by our client.

Our client needed counsel in Illinois quickly, so I contacted Matt Jackson at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP (BFKN) (Illinois, USA - TAGLaw). Matt put me in touch immediately with Michael Tomczyk and Will Cronin at BFKN. They did a great job, and the client was impressed with the speed at which we could staff the file and get things done. I had a conversation with the client afterwards, and they will likely use BFKN going forward on their matters.

Truly a success and much appreciated."

––Steve Popoff; Blaney McMurtry LLP (Ontario, Canada - TAGLaw)