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A multinational company contacted us after the spouse of its general manager was carjacked at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro. The general manager and his spouse had never had an expatriate assignment before and were not provided pre-departure briefings concerning the security threats in Brazil or how to minimize such risks. The carjacking was so traumatizing to the victim that the general manager broke his overseas assignment and returned home, causing a financial loss to the company of over $10 million, due to a lengthy gap in replacing general managers.

Solution: Sleeping Bear Risk Solutions offers multinational companies a broad range of services that significantly reduce the risks that expatriates and their families face abroad. These services include but are not limited to:

✓ Pre-departure country-specific briefings designed to educate the employee and family members on how to live and work successfully in the country, how to find and safeguard a new residence, how to minimize security risks and what to do if confronted by threats.

✓ Within two weeks after the expatriate's arrival in the country, a Sleeping Bear Risk Solutions consultant will visit the newly arrived expatriate and his/her family and assist them with transitional challenges, including hiring domestic staff, assistance in identifying a securable residence, hiring a driver (if needed) and conducting a thorough vulnerability assessment of executive, family, workplace, vehicular and residential security.

✓ Assisting the foreign subsidiary in developing a crisis management plan specific to the country in order to reduce business disruption in the event of political unrest, acts of criminal violence and terrorism, threats, kidnapping, extortion, natural disasters, etc.

✓ Providing an on-site response service to multinational companies faced with international crises such as acts of violent crime, terrorism, political unrest, extortion, fraud, business losses, natural disasters, etc.