1. You are an Executive at the Canadian-based company Panamera Inc., a software company that sells and provides its services online (SaaS model). Your company's core product, initially developed by a Management Sciences professor, was in commercial use for over a decade before you joined the company. Panamera's software provides a full suite of tools to help customers organize their operations, staff, and clients, as well as manage their financials and communications. You and your team have turned your company into a viable going concern. Sales in Canada have quadrupled in the past quarter, and there is significant interest in your SaaS from all over the World. After a lot of hard work, Panamera is most likely entering a hyper growth situation. Panamera is expecting to process 100's of millions of dollars (CAD) in transactions annually within three years. One of the challenges Panamera faces is managing significant new sales from abroad. Your merchant account provider (merchant account provider's processes credit card transactions) has suggested that you open a foreign-based subsidiary to process sales outside of Canada. If Panamera opens a subsidiary in British Virgin Islands; Wellington, New Zealand; Silicon Docks, Ireland and processes transactions through one of these subsidiary location, your merchant account rate will drop by about 1% to an effective rate of 1.75%, regardless of where sales are generated.
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3. Analyze each of the three locations with the goal to select and justify a suitable jurisdiction by explaining the key issues that you will need to understand and track as you take Panamera global.

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To select a suitable jurisdiction for Panameras foreign subsidiary lets analyze the key factors and issues for each of the three locations British Virgin Islands Wellington New Zealand and Silicon Doc... View the full answer