Flexible legal regulations introduced during COVID pandemic benefit multinationals in 2022
More flexible company regulations introduced to fit Working From Home arrangements during the COVID pandemic took effect over the past year as multinationals used digitized processes to work faster and reduce the costs of managing their legal entities according to data compiled by Entity Portfolio Management (EPM) leader Mercator by Citco (Mercator), in its annual Mercator Entity Management Report 2022.
- More flexible company regulations introduced to fit Working From Home arrangements during the COVID pandemic took effect over the past year as multinationals used digitized processes to work faster and reduce the costs of managing their legal entities according to data compiled by Entity Portfolio Management (EPM) leader Mercator by Citco (Mercator), in its annual Mercator Entity Management Report 2022.
- APAC remains the quickest region to operate as it had already implemented many of these digital processes prior to the COVID pandemic and refined them further since last year.
- Overall, multinationals were able to reduce the time spent on managing their entities over the past year by almost a fifth (17%) in this new digital landscape.
- Kariem Abdellatif, Head of Mercator said: The global management of a multinationals entities has never been more important as in-house legal and corporate secretarial teams work in a challenging environment where regulations change constantly.