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Global Counsel and The Messina Group

A global partnership

The Global Counsel and The Messina Group global partnership provides clients with world-class integrated consultancy services, drawing on our political and policy counsel and expertise to navigate challenging commercial environments around the world. 
We advise clients on policy, regulatory and political risk issues. We help anticipate and address the ways in which politics, policy and regulations impact businesses and help leaders develop proactive and reactive strategies with policymakers, regulators and the media.  
We have more than 150 colleagues operating across seven main offices in London, Washington DC, San Francisco, Brussels, Berlin, Doha and Singapore. This is supplemented by a network of advisers who help support the delivery of client priorities in specific markets almost anywhere in the world.  
As strategic partners to our clients, we provide a high-quality service that is rooted in compelling data, insights and content, and helps advance clients’ strategic aims and objectives. 
 
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How we help our clients
Service types

Strategic counsel

Description

We assess how the emerging political and regulatory agenda affects client business models against a backdrop of rapid regulatory change and enhanced scrutiny. 

Regulatory horizon scanning

Description

We use a mix of experience, policymaker insight and proprietary research to help clients understand the frontiers of policymaking in their sector and to anticipate and engage with incoming policy change. 

Market entry support

Description

We help clients understand the policy and regulatory context of new markets or sectors they wish to expand into, leveraging a team of experts with insight on a wide range of global markets.

Political, policy and regulatory due diligence

Description

We support investment teams to anticipate, understand, and mitigate political, policy, and regulatory impacts on targets and portfolios. As deal advisers, we assist vendors, acquirers, and lenders with investment analysis, pricing, valuations, and strategy development before transactions. 

Mergers & acquisitions

Description

We work on M&A transactions in the US and globally. We understand how regulators think, and with that in mind, shape strategies to influence public perception and narratives around complex deals and the thorniest antitrust issues of the day. Our innovative tactics help clients navigate the ever-changing political landscape.

Proprietary research

Description

We provide clients with a deeper understanding of the audiences that matter: policymakers, opinion formers, investors, businesses, activist voters and other stakeholders. We use polling and audience research, including in-depth interviews and focus groups, to guide our strategic advice and build evidence for engagement.

Strategic communications

Description

We specialize in shaping and refining client’s corporate narrative through strategic communications, crisis management, narrative development and executive profile building. Our team crafts compelling messaging that resonates with stakeholders, enhancing client’s positioning and credibility with policymakers.

Global convening & profile building

Description

We advise clients on how to effectively use events for impact in specific policy areas or for establishing thought leadership credentials. This includes providing strategic and on-the-ground support to clients looking to engage on policy discussions at major international conferences or helping clients to establish their own platforms.   

Data analytics

Description

We draw on our campaign experience to devise data and analytics strategy through sourcing and developing client data assets, custom predictive modeling and data science solutions, building and scaling your data infrastructure and culture, navigating consumer protection regulations.

Digital strategy

Description

We believe that the best digital strategies are those that deliver the right content to the right communities at the right time. We work with clients to develop and implement digital advertising, message testing, social listening, influence ID and engagement, and content planning and execution.

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