05 — Case Studies

Selected engagements. Standards held.

Anonymized to protect client confidentiality — representative of the work, and the standard, we bring to it across regions, sectors, and disciplines.

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01 / 08Legislative Monitoring

Reading a regulatory landscape before it sets.

The mandate

A US technology company expanding across Sub-Saharan Africa needed continuous visibility into a fast-moving legal and regulatory landscape — data-protection and localization laws, sectoral regulation, privacy rules, and emerging cybersecurity mandates — across multiple national jurisdictions and regulators, often in local languages and ahead of formal publication.

Our approach

We established a standing legislative- and regulatory-monitoring programme: tracking bills, regulator guidance, enforcement actions, and the political signals behind them; assessing each development against the client's specific exposure; and delivering concise, prioritised alerts with a clear read on likely direction and timing. Where the public record was thin, our local networks and OSINT closed the gap.

OutcomeThe client shifted from reacting to regulation to anticipating it — adapting product, data-handling, and engagement strategy ahead of new requirements, and ranking markets by regulatory risk.
8Jurisdictions monitored, continuously

Capabilities drawn on

  • Technology
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Data & Cyber Policy

Practices

  • Legislative Monitoring
  • OSINT
  • Political Risk
  • Local-Language Sources
02 / 08Strategic Advisory

Thirty-six decisions, one programme.

The mandate

A major humanitarian demining effort in the Middle East — operating across contested terrain, multiple donors, and a web of local and international stakeholders — required sustained counsel to navigate the political, security, regulatory, and funding environment surrounding its work.

Our approach

Across the life of the programme we delivered 36 discrete advisory engagements: stakeholder and political mapping, donor and government engagement strategy, security and operating-risk assessments, and counsel on working credibly across authorities and jurisdictions. Each engagement was principal-led and built around the decision in front of the client.

OutcomeThe programme advanced its mandate with a sharper read of the operating environment, stronger stakeholder alignment, and an engagement strategy matched to a difficult and shifting context.
36Principal-led engagements delivered

Capabilities drawn on

  • Humanitarian / Public Sector
  • Middle East
  • Sustained Advisory

Practices

  • Strategic Advisory
  • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Security Assessment
  • Donor Strategy
03 / 08Market Entry

Entering a regulated market with eyes open.

The mandate

A mobility firm weighing entry into a Eurasian market needed to understand demand, the competitive field, the licensing and regulatory path, and the political and stakeholder landscape before committing capital to a complex, regulated sector.

Our approach

We delivered a market-entry assessment that paired primary research — expert interviews, local sourcing, and competitive mapping — with regulatory and political-risk analysis and a read of the decisive public- and private-sector stakeholders. We then advised on entry strategy, sequencing, and the relationships that would determine success.

OutcomeThe firm entered with a clear-eyed view of the opportunity and its risks, an evidence-based strategy, and a stakeholder map that shortened its path to operating.
4Phases, from research to operating

Capabilities drawn on

  • Mobility & Transport
  • Eurasia
  • Market Research

Practices

  • Market Research
  • Regulatory Strategy
  • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Entry Sequencing
04 / 08Asset Tracing

Following value across borders.

The mandate

Following a dispute, a client needed to locate and document assets connected to a counterparty who had moved value across several jurisdictions through layered corporate structures and nominees — to support recovery and inform legal strategy.

Our approach

We combined transactional and integrity due diligence, open-source intelligence, corporate-registry and litigation research, and discreet human-source inquiries to reconstruct the ownership and money trail. Every finding was sourced, corroborated, and documented to an evidentiary standard suitable for legal proceedings.

OutcomeWe delivered a defensible picture of where value had moved and who controlled it, giving the client and its counsel a factual basis to pursue recovery.
DefensibleEvidentiary file built for proceedings

Capabilities drawn on

  • Due Diligence & Investigations
  • Multi-Jurisdictional

Practices

  • Asset Tracing
  • OSINT
  • Corporate Registries
  • Human-Source Inquiry
05 / 08Market Entry

Crossing from Anatolia to the Andes.

The mandate

A Turkish industrial group with established positions across MENA and Central Asia sought a structured entry into Latin America — a region where its products had clear demand but no operating history, and where regulatory regimes, distribution structures, and political environments differed sharply from market to market.

Our approach

We delivered a comparative market-entry assessment across three priority countries — sizing demand, mapping the regulatory and tariff path, screening prospective distributors and JV partners, and reading the political and stakeholder environment around the sector. We then sequenced entry: which market first, on what model, and through which counterparties.

OutcomeThe client moved into the region with a prioritised country roadmap, vetted partners on the shortlist, and a clear-eyed view of where regulation, tariffs, or politics would shape unit economics.
3LATAM markets prioritized

Capabilities drawn on

  • Industrials
  • Latin America
  • Cross-Border Strategy

Practices

  • Market Research
  • Regulatory Strategy
  • Partner Diligence
  • Government Affairs
06 / 08Country & Political Risk

Risk that lives underground — and above it.

The mandate

A global mining major operating across multiple African jurisdictions required a sustained country- and political-risk read on its asset base — covering concession integrity, permitting trajectories, host-government dynamics, security exposure, and community standing across sites at different stages of the project lifecycle.

Our approach

We built site-by-site risk profiles combining political-risk analysis, host-government and regulator mapping, security assessment, and community and ESG sourcing through local networks. Each profile was reviewed quarterly, with event-driven updates when elections, fiscal changes, or unrest materially shifted the picture.

OutcomeLeadership operated against a single, current picture of country and operating risk across the portfolio — informing capital allocation, contingency planning, and engagement with host governments and lenders.
6Jurisdictions assessed

Capabilities drawn on

  • Mining & Resources
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • License-to-Operate

Practices

  • Political Risk
  • Host-Government Mapping
  • Community & ESG
  • Security Risk
07 / 08Third-Party Diligence

Clearing the bench, vendor by vendor.

The mandate

An international sports organization, accountable to sponsors, broadcasters, and host-country regulators, needed a defensible third-party integrity programme covering the suppliers, agencies, and event-services counterparties engaged across its global calendar.

Our approach

We designed a tiered diligence framework aligned to FCPA and UK Bribery Act expectations, then executed it: sanctions and adverse-media screening, beneficial-ownership and PEP analysis, integrity checks on high-risk vendors, and ongoing monitoring of cleared counterparties. Findings were delivered into the organisation's procurement workflow.

OutcomeThe organisation onboarded vendors with a documented, audit-ready integrity file — and discontinued, restructured, or escalated a small number of relationships where the evidence warranted it.
180+Counterparties screened

Capabilities drawn on

  • Sports & Events
  • Global
  • ABC / Vendor Integrity

Practices

  • Third-Party Diligence
  • Sanctions & Adverse Media
  • Beneficial Ownership
  • Ongoing Monitoring
08 / 08Political & Operational Risk

Reading the room before the doors open.

The mandate

A global hospitality group operating across MENA and Asia required a political- and operational-risk read on its property portfolio — covering host-country stability, regulatory exposure, security environment, and the local stakeholder dynamics that affect everything from licensing to guest experience.

Our approach

We profiled each property's operating environment: government and regulator mapping, security and travel-risk assessment, local-language media monitoring, and stakeholder analysis around the asset. Reports fed both corporate risk committees and on-property general managers, with event-driven alerts when conditions shifted.

OutcomeThe group made staffing, capital-expenditure, and contingency decisions against a current and comparable view of risk across the portfolio — and engaged host-country counterparts with a better grasp of who, and what, actually moved decisions.
12Property locations covered

Capabilities drawn on

  • Hospitality
  • MENA & Asia
  • Operating Risk

Practices

  • Political Risk
  • Operating-Risk Assessment
  • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Crisis Counsel
How we work each case
  • Evidentiary standard
  • Source-verified
  • Confidentiality preserved
  • Senior-led throughout

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