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 our wide ranging expertise and knowledge, we help our clients develop their commercial strategies and their engagement strategies with policymakers.
We have worked at senior levels in regulatory agencies and government bodies and we understand how economic arguments interface with wider political, policy, legal and technical considerations. Our experience puts us in a unique position to advise on the evidence needed to support economic arguments and how to present that evidence in a way that will resonate with the decision-makers and officials who matter. We use our experience – along with our technical skills – to help our clients present a well-evidenced narrative that will achieve the outcomes they seek.
Our approach
We focus on identifying and translating political, policy and regulatory developments into new business opportunities and commercially valuable advice for effective investor and business management.
Regulatory and government affairs
We help firms develop their strategic approach to government engagement. We assist companies to create and structure their engagement plan and ensure they keep across relevant regulatory developments.
Advise on regulatory, policy and political risks
We work with firms to map their commercial exposure to political and regulatory changes in food, drink and farming such as environmental and obesity regulations. We identify risks to business operations and help develop mitigation strategies.
Insights and intelligence
Our food, drink and farming experts provide clients with timely and relevant analysis and insight, monitoring relevant political and policy developments across the UK and EU.
Solving market barriers
We help clients navigate and address regulatory barriers within the sector such as sustainability and obesity strategies, and key trade negotiations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Case studies
Securing government funding for energy start-up
Securing government funding for energy start-up
Major sports competition acquisition
Major sports competition acquisition
Challenge
A private equity firm was considering an investment in an international sporting tournament. Flint was engaged to inform the bid team on the nature of the regulatory regime, how adjustments are made, and to assess the likelihood that the tournament would be required to be shown live on free-to-air TV, reducing the value of the broadcasting rights. We also provided expert advice on competition issues relating to the amalgamation of sports rights.
What Flint Did
Identified key policy, political and regulatory risks and opportunities concerning telemedicine across eight jurisdictions, focusing on commercial, demand- and supply-side factors, in particular workforce policy.
Assessed the likelihood of risks and opportunities occurring in the short, medium and long term, and determined the potential commercial impact on the target.
Conducted interviews with senior decision-makers in the NHS and government to understand priorities and provide insight into the current use and future trajectory of telemedicine.
Supported the firm to assess commercial due diligence to determine any missed political and policy risks.
Outcome
The investor had a clear understanding of the political and policy context for telemedicine in each jurisdiction, and areas of policy change that could give rise to tangible risks and opportunities.
The investor was able to incorporate this understanding of the risks and opportunities to fine tune their valuation of the asset ahead of a bid.
The insights from the report were presented to the investor’s finance committee to inform the approach to making a bid for the target.
