We help businesses and investors understand, manage, and mitigate regulatory risk to maximise opportunity.
Flint is a multinational team of business advisers with experience working at the most senior levels in UK and European governments, regulators, competition bodies, political parties, and the private sector. Where politics and regulation collide, we understand complex regulatory regimes, the influence of politics on regulation, and how this can affect a range of commercial models. We help businesses identify issues upstream, navigate regulatory change, and build relationships based on mutual trust with their regulators, to ensure the best possible returns.
Flint’s approach
We have expertise in a wide range of regulatory models. Our experts help clients manage risk from existing and developing regulation.
Horizon scanning
We stay abreast of regulatory developments across all major sectors, so that clients can act early to ensure their voice is heard.
Issue management
We help clients with matters of compliance, audit and assurance, standards, and best practice, in line with their respective regulatory regime.
Constructive relationships
The best relationships between regulated businesses and regulators are constructive and based on trust – we help clients achieve them.
Managing change
Whether gradual or structural, we prepare clients for regulatory change and equip them to defend [their commercial interests] and create new opportunities.
Sectors where we can help
Technology
We work with companies and investors in the technology sector, supporting their businesses with strategic advice on political and policy change.
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.
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 helps companies and investors navigate the UK water sector, and the complex – and evolving – political, policy and regulatory environment in which it operates.
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.
Flint helps 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.
A late change to an incoming prudential regime resulted in a client’s international operations being brought in scope, meaning the client would be required to hold significant additional capital. The client needed support to consider the options and make a decision about how best to mitigate the impact of this.
What Flint Did
Outcome
Flint advises international businesses and investors on policy, politics, regulation and competition.
