CFCO International facilitates business development, trade, technology transfer, intellectual property (IP)-commercialization & joint venture (JV)/strategic partnership initiatives for British, Irish and French companies seeking market expansion, as well as new sales and profit opportunities in the United States.

CFCO also provides professional services in the areas of specialist government relations, lobbying, international affairs and corporate communications support. We serve domestic and international clients involved in European-American business ventures.

In addition, CFCO works with commercial and governmental sponsors of large infrastructure development projects requiring World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), European Investment Bank (EIB) and other multilateral financial institutions.

The United States is a foreign market for European companies. Successful business development in America requires expert knowledge of the corporate, political, legal, regulatory and cultural variables that impact commercial and profit opportunities.

CFCO has acquired that expertise through varied assignments on behalf of more than 30 US-EU clients. This client experience includes diverse manufacturing, service industry, IP-commercialization, technology transfer, contract bid, marketing, product promotion, and sales activities in the United States.

EU-US EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

• Business strategy
• Management, marketing and sales
• Government relations/lobbying
• Private-public partnership programs
• Contract bids
• Federal, state and municipal, defense and commercial
• Corporate communications
• Product promotion, press and media relations
• Corporate social responsibility
• Custom designed programs
• Technology Transfer
• Commercialization of IP, including Manufacturing Under License Agreements (MULAs)
• JV/Strategic Partnerships
• Business alliances with Prime Contractors

CFCO International advises European and American executives on cost efficient strategies and tactics to maximize profit opportunities through EU-US business development programs.

Establishment of a wholly owned multibillion-dollar American subsidiary for a prominent British multinational company. It involved top-level US-UK government-to-government relations, business development, and market positioning issues, with senior European and American corporate and political leaders.

Development and promotion of the American affiliates of diverse European multinational manufacturing, service and technology companies through programs that expanded new business/sales and enhanced profitability, high-level networks and corporate social responsibility.

Commercialization of prototype IP and facilitation of technology transfers, through the brokering of JV/strategic partnerships/MULAs with American prime contractors and US government sources within the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Intelligence Community, General Services Administration and other federal, state and municipal contract/ bid programs.

Creation of marketing, product/service promotion and sales support programs to secure new business orders from American companies.

Implementation of international affairs, corporate communications and government relations/lobbying strategies to secure World Bank, IMF, EIB and other multilateral agency support for partial risk guarantees, grants/loans and financing for large infrastructure development projects.

Securing World Bank Board approval for the partial risk guarantee and financing of a $1.3 billion 1100 MW French-Thai-Laotian hydroelectric project in southeast Asia. Accomplished through a multiyear government relations/lobbying, international affairs and corporate communications program.