We help clients present evidence-based cases to decision-makers that are robust and effective. We draw on our deep and unique understanding of the Government's own modelling approaches that underpin tax, spending, and regulatory policy decisions, and deploy credible economic theory and empirical techniques.
Our economic modelling experts have significant experience including helping clients across sectors develop the robust evidence base required to make their case to the relevant decision-makers.

Our team has experience of working across all sectors, including consumer goods, financial services, digital/tech, health, transport, media, energy and sport.
Along with this, we have a team of tax policy experts and economists who are specialists in how tax policy is developed and the important role that high-quality economic analysis plays in the policymaking process, find out more about our tax advisory offer here.

How we help clients

Our economic modelling services are tailored to provide clients with precise, actionable insights, enabling them to
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Understand policy and regulatory impacts: we assess the economic implications of government policies, including tax changes, regulatory adjustments, and spending decisions. Our models allow clients to anticipate how these policies might affect their operations, markets, and bottom line
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Quantify economic contribution: we conduct
economic impact analyses to quantify the contribution of a business, industry, or specific project to the national or regional economy. This helps clients present compelling investment, regulatory approval, or policy support cases
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Mitigate risks: our risk analysis uses quantitative
modelling to identify potential economic risks – such as macroeconomic events or market shocks – allowing businesses to proactively adjust strategies to minimise negative impacts and capitalise on opportunities
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Support decision-making: through our simulation
modelling, we offer clients a tool to explore various
scenarios and quantify the potential impacts of their
decisions, ensuring they are well-informed and their
strategies are robust against economic uncertainties

Our offer

Due diligence:
Political risk management:
Anti-trust and competition clearance:
FDI and national security clearance:
Buy and sell side due diligence for investments, bolt-ons, or divestments where politics, policy, regulation, fiscal measures or clearance risks could have implications for value creation.
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Supporting clients to identify political head or tailwinds in relation to specific assets or buyers, and developing a strategy for clearance.
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Expert advice on competition economics and the approach regulators are likely to take to competition reviews and investigations.
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Analysis of possible national security concerns, assessment of likely impact on clearance, and early advice on possible remedies and undertakings. Design of remedies to facilitate clearance: Supporting clients to work constructively with government on remedies packages that protect their commercial interests while also providing a pathway
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Our approach

Our approach to economic modelling is both comprehensive and nuanced.
Client-centric, tailored solutions
We begin by understanding the client's unique needs, ensuring our models are tailored to provide the most relevant insights. Our bespoke solutions consider the client's industry, strategic challenges, and decision-making context.
Data-driven insights
Using a range of econometrics, economic theory, and advanced statistical techniques, we ensure our analyses are robust and accurate. Our models are built to simulate complex economic systems, providing a realistic view of potential outcomes.
Scenario analysis
We construct models that allow for scenario analysis, enabling clients to explore different economic futures and understand how various factors – influenced by geopolitical and macroeconomic events – could affect their business. This includes counterfactual modelling to compare actual impacts with hypothetical scenarios.
Flexible modelling tools
From simple models for straightforward value arguments to detailed simulations of complex outcomes, our toolset is broad, ensuring we can meet any analytical requirement with precision.
Review and response
We offer expert reviews of appraisals produced by others, including regulators, and can support clients in crafting effective responses and helping them to adjust their strategies accordingly.
Expertise and experience
Our team's expertise in regulation, macroeconomics, and policy-making, positions us to offer credible, empirically grounded advice.

Sectors where we can help

We serve a range of clients operating in many sectors where public policy and regulation is a significant factor in planning and strategic decision-making. We offer external challenge, additional bandwidth and practical support. As a global firm, we draw on and integrate the experience of our teams across the word.
Defence
Energy
Financial services
Food, drink and farming
Health and life sciences
Manufacturing and industry
Media, entertainment and sport
Technology
Telecommunications
Transport
Water
We work with companies and investors in the defence sector, providing strategic advice on the political and policy environment. We support defence firms of all sizes across multiple technology segments and jurisdictions to navigate complex policy, geopolitical and regulatory issues. We also help investors understand defence policy and regulatory impacts which affect their portfolios, including by offering deep expertise of defence policy and related policy areas, providing insights, and conducting company and market due diligence.



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We support 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.
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We help 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.
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We help 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.
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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.
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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.
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We work 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.
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We work with companies and investors in the technology sector, supporting their businesses with strategic advice on political and policy change.
We provide political and policy advice to some of the largest operators in the technology industry, including clients in artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce, fintech, new media and communications.
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We help telecommunications providers and investors navigate a complex and ever-changing competition, policy and regulatory landscape drawing on our deep sector knowledge and extensive senior level industry experience.
Our team brings together a unique mix of senior expertise from UK and European telecoms regulators and government,
and extensive experience of advising the world’s leading telecoms operators to provide advice and insight across the telecommunications regulatory and competition landscape.
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We help companies, investors, and sector bodies navigate fast-changing and complex transport policy and regulation.
We advise 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.
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We help companies, investors, and sector bodies navigate fast-changing and complex transport policy and regulation.
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.
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Let’s discuss

We would be delighted to discuss how Flint could support you and tailor our services to help you deliver commercial success in this area.
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