European Affairs

We help companies, investors, and sector bodies navigate fast-changing and complex transport policy and regulation.

Flint advises transport clients on managing risks and seizing opportunity from structural sector reform, decarbonisation, transport funding and finances, and regulation of new modes of transport. Our team has worked within transport authorities, at the highest levels of politics and policy, and at regulators. We advise organisations in the sector on making their voice heard, by crafting commercially informed policy propositions that also benefit consumers and the Exchequer. We advise investors on medium-to long-term trends, likely policy trajectories, political interest in national to local transport infrastructure and risks to transactions.

Flint helps companies and investors navigate the UK water sector, and the complex – and evolving – political, policy and regulatory environment in which it operates.

We advise regulated water companies and major institutional investors on their strategic and investment decisions. Our team brings together experts from regulators, government and industry; we draw on our deep understanding of how the sector is run, regulated and governed, as well as the wider political context. Our coverage is broad: we advise on price controls and redeterminations, on policy development within central government, on regulatory developments and reform within Ofwat, the Environment Agency and the Drinking Water Inspectorate, and on engagement with politicians, policy-makers, regulators and other stakeholders.

Flint supports companies at the heart of the energy transition to navigate the rapidly changing policy and regulatory environment that impacts investment and commercial plans.

Our specialist team comes from the most senior levels of energy regulation and policy. We use our unique insight and understanding of how policy and regulation will evolve to advise generators, network companies, retailers, and investors on how to positively shape the policy debate and manage regulatory risk.

Flint helps financial services institutions, from established players to growing fintechs, navigate an ever-more complex regulatory and policy landscape and understand the broader political context in which these events take place.

Our team brings together expertise from senior levels of UK, European and Asian financial institutions, regulators and government, to provide advice and insight across the financial services landscape. We combine deep technical knowledge with first-hand experience of policy and regulatory decision-making, to help businesses and investors anticipate and manage developments and take strategic decisions to achieve successful commercial outcomes. Our advice is candid, rigorous and constructive.

Flint helps food, drink and farming clients navigate the changing regulatory and policy landscape to achieve their commercial goals.

The food, drink and farming policy and regulatory environment is continuously evolving affecting businesses that operate in the UK, EU and beyond. Companies need to identify and mitigate potential risks and ensure they capitalise on opportunities in the developing nutritional and agricultural landscape.

Using Flint’s wide ranging expertise and knowledge, we help our clients develop their commercial strategies and engage with government to influence the future direction of the sector for their benefit.

Changes in health policy and regulation pose both commercial opportunities and risks.

We help major corporates, investors and portfolio companies anticipate, interpret and respond to opportunities from changes in health policy, regulation and politics to deliver improved commercial outcomes. Our team brings together expertise from senior levels of UK and European ministries, public health bodies, competition authorities, and regulators. What differentiates us is our cross-disciplinary expertise that provides us with a sophisticated understanding of the interdependencies of health and care policy with the wider political system; a forensic focus on driving commercial outcomes, and a proven track record in the sector.

We help advanced manufacturers to navigate a fast moving regulatory and policy landscape, to anticipate and manage domestic and geopolitical risk, and to take advantage of opportunities, for example in new technologies, trade, investment.

We apply our extensive experience working in industrial policy within government, and serving clients across many advanced manufacturing segments (such as auto, aero, and energy) to help our clients anticipate, interpret and respond to political, policy and regulatory developments relevant to their commercial aims. We work with them to ensure their strategies, priorities and activities take account of these external changes, and we help businesses to bring together the arguments and evidence they can use to shape debate in the political and policy sphere. Supporting them on the who and how of effective engagement; whether the aim is to shape regulatory debate, secure support and funding for a major initiative, or to improve their profile in the policy making arena.

Flint works with major players in the media, sports and entertainment sectors to provide strategic advice at a time where policy and regulation is seeking to adapt to rapid developments in technology and societal expectations.

We help major companies and institutions deliver improved commercial outcomes by anticipating, interpreting and responding to opportunities and risks created by change in policy, regulation and politics. Our expert team comes from the highest levels of government and regulators and has built and implemented policy and regulatory frameworks that shape how we share information and consume entertainment and sport. We combine policy and regulatory experience in news, broadcasting, social media and sports regulation with political, legislative and commercial insight to help our clients deliver positive outcomes.