Geopolitics advisory

We have an outstanding group of senior experts in diplomacy and international politics. We apply their geopolitical analysis, geopolitical advisory expertise and political risk consulting experience directly to the commercial challenges faced by our clients, helping them identify risks and opportunities, make informed decisions and develop their government engagement strategies.

Governments around the world are responding to rising geopolitical competition by intervening in the market in forceful ways, both to weaken perceived adversaries and to strengthen their own resilience and advantage. This means that companies are increasingly finding themselves on the political front line as geopolitics have a material impact on their operations.

We help businesses to anticipate geopolitical events, and understand and deal with the direct and downstream consequences. We apply the macro to the micro – providing targeted, commercially driven advice to help our clients identify risks, ensure the resilience of their business model, deploy capital and people in a way that maximises value, and protects their reputation.

How we help clients

We get beyond the macro and understand what geopolitics means for our clients. We do this by

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Understanding how big picture politics can and will have direct and downstream impact on corporates and investors

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Providing clients with targeted and tangible geopolitical advisory and political risk consulting directly relevant to their business

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Predicting how geopolitical developments will evolve and what this means for our clients

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We draw on our in-house expertise and real-world experience, complemented by insight from our network to provide our clients with the best advice.

Our offer

Policy and political analysis

Geopolitics advisory

Legislative strategy

Removing trade barriers

We help businesses anticipate, interpret and respond to developments in UK, EU and Asia-Pacific policy and politics.

We apply our geopolitical analysis to the challenges faced by our clients, helping them identify risks and opportunities, make informed decisions and engage effectively with governments.

We draw on our government, parliamentary and regulatory expertise to help clients understand, engage with and shape commercially relevant legislation.

We enable our clients to navigate an increasingly complex global trading environment, helping them identify risks and opportunities to achieve their commercial objective.

Our approach

We believe that what matters for business is understanding how big-picture global politics directly affects them, and the decisions they must make now about the future. Our team is made up of experts and former practitioners who have deep experience across Europe, Asia and the US, and have worked at senior levels at the heart of governments and international organisations.

Horizon scanning

Events are moving quickly and becoming harder to predict. We map upcoming geopolitical risks and flashpoints that will affect corporates and investors. We support our clients to build resilience and identify opportunities, including when deploying
capital.

Transaction support

Geopolitics is increasingly determining which investors can invest in what and where. Our experienced deal team supports clients to approach transactions with a clear plan for clearance.

Market and sector-specific analysis

Conditions are changing differently in diverse geographies. We analyse developments in Europe, the US, Asia and elsewhere to
advise clients on exposure and opportunities in specific markets and sectors, including the decisions they need to make about their business model, significant customer or supplier relationships, and government engagement.

Supply chain resilience

Customer, supplier and partner relationships are under pressure from measures such as sanctions, export controls, capital controls, subsidies disputes and informal barriers to trade. Businesses risk supply shortages or costly failure to meet customer contracts. Our support helps clients to be confident that their business model will be more resilient to geopolitical shocks.

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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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