Private Equity
Flint helps investors evaluate and manage political, regulatory and ESG risk and opportunity. We mitigate the risk of intervention by competition authorities, regulators, and government.
We have over 100 staff and senior advisors across Europe, including policy analysts, lawyers, and economists – drawn from government, regulators, and competition authorities. This gives us unparalleled insight into how and why regulations and policies are changed and what issues policymakers are likely to act on over the short to long-term.
We combine that with acute understanding of the commercial impact of policy, drawing on colleagues’ experience working at major banks, investor advisory firms and corporates.
We work with private equity and VC firms, hedge funds, REITs, and other alternative investors – as well as corporate finance, banks, legal and commercial advisors. We offer several services:
- Political and regulatory due diligence
- Identification and management of competition and national security issues
- ESG due diligence and advisory
- Post-acquisition asset management
- Pre-exit planning and vendor due diligence
- Firm strategy and fund origination advice
Flint helps clients at all stages of the investment lifecycle:
- Political and regulatory due diligence: We assess political, policy, and regulatory risks and opportunities over the short to long-term and covert political and regulatory insight into valuations, commercial strategy, and mitigation measures. We also assess how well the target asset’s management understand and manage political and regulatory risk.
- Identification and management of competition and national security issues: We help investors and corporates identify and overcome potential political, regulatory, competition or national security/interest obstacles to transactions on the buy and sell-side. See our Mergers & Acquisitions page for more information. We also advise hedge funds following deal situations.
- ESG due diligence and advisory: We specialise in helping clients understand policy-driven ESG risk and opportunity, from mandatory reporting requirements to climate transition, anti-bribery and corruption, and human rights policies. We make practical recommendations for commercial strategy, investor engagement, market positioning and operational change.
- Post-acquisition strategic advice: We advise investors and management teams on policy developments relevant to buy and build and other growth strategies, including expansions into new territories. We help clients understand and shape regulatory and political environments to support their growth and mitigate risk.
- Pre-exit planning and vendor due diligence: Our extensive experience on the buy-side means we understand what buyers and their advisors will ask. We not only provide VDD but advise management teams and investors on how they can demonstrate to potential buyers that they have effectively understood and planned for political and regulatory change.
- Firm strategy and fund origination advice: We help firms understand policy and regulatory factors affecting their sectoral investment theses and advise them on how best to avoid, mitigate, or leverage risk and opportunity from fund development to deployment. We work with teams at the origination phase, identifying policy red flags early on and providing insight on how exposed some target assets are to policy change compared to others.