Strategic intelligenceSenior executives need top-quality intelligence in order to manage risk and minimise uncertainty. Risk Advisory provides intelligence in support of board-level decisions related to capital projects, strategic expansion, major competitive tenders and other opportunities. We provide decision-makers with clarity and insight to enable them to take informed decisions in uncertain political, regulatory and commercial conditions.
Our strategic intelligence team, drawing upon our worldwide network, has access to high-level sources in circles of critical relevance to executive decision-makers. Such circles include industry observers, financial analysts, political commentators, policy makers, regulators, business executives, and other well-placed and informed sources.
These are some of the situations in which we have recently been engaged:
- New market entry: Advising an infrastructure investment company on its entry into a Middle Eastern market, providing insight into the competitive landscape and political influences on the sector, identifying a suitable local partner
- Privatisation, tender or licensing processes: Clarifying the agendas and intentions of key decision makers, stakeholders and bidders - and the conflicts between them - in the privatisation of a utilities company in Eastern Europe for an international company seeking to understand the parameters of the privatisation and how to optimise their own position
- Cross border M&A: Advising a European trade buyer on its purchase of a partially privatised aeronautical company in the Baltic States, including the roles and priorities of government officials involved, the use of intermediaries and the subtleties of operating in an unfamiliar environment
- Legislation and government action: Advising a private equity company planning to purchase an agricultural business in the USA providing insight on the likelihood of proposed legislation on the sector becoming law, and the impact that this would have on the company in question as well as the wider sector
- Competitor intelligence: Providing detailed insight into how a multinational oil company's principal competitors are viewed by government, regulators and clients in Russia, and how they are reacting to specific threats facing the oil industry - and what our client might do to improve its own standing in the sector
- Country risk mapping: In depth analysis of the factors affecting a central Asian country's transition to a market economy for a new investor in the oil sector. This included identifying the key players in that transition at political, economic and private levels, providing detailed insight into their competing interests and support bases and outlining various scenarios for development and stability over the short to medium term. It also included the provision of a detailed schema of risks affecting private sector development and inward investment and likely triggers which would cause those risks to become ignited
