We help investment decision-makers to anticipate and mitigate the impacts of politics, policy and regulation on assets and investment portfolios. Focusing on our specialist niche of government and regulatory affairs, we draw on an extensive network and more than a decade in the market to provide investors across the globe with timely, accurate and actionable insights. Our clients include GPs and LPs ranging from global and regional private equity funds to family offices and sovereign wealth, endowment, pension and infrastructure funds.
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How we help clients
Macro advisory
We deliver country or thematic risk assessments and scenario development to help clients judge and balance portfolio risk exposures and respond to immediate challenges or opportunities.
Regulatory strategy
We help clients with strategic planning for key events such as mergers and acquisitions, market entries and major strategy changes. We deliver executive briefings with succinct and actionable insights, and regular stakeholder engagement support.
Buy-side regulatory political due diligence
We provide transaction-based regulatory and political due diligence to inform bid pricing, value-creation strategies and delivery of the investment thesis.
Pre-exit support
We prepare clients for exit processes by identifying regulatory, policy and political risk and developing mitigation strategies, as well as briefing prospective bidders and lenders via our sell-side due diligence product.
Portfolio review
We provide strategic assessment of relevant regulatory, policy and political developments to identify most-exposed portfolio companies and develop mitigations strategies to support growth and exit valuations.
Market entry
We support investors with regulatory and political due diligence for bolt-on acquisitions to existing platforms when entering new geographies or market sub-sectors.
ESG advisory
We provide transaction and portfolio-level ESG due diligence, as well as guidance and operational support for GPs, LPs and portfolio companies seeking to navigate rapidly changing ESG policy frameworks globally.
Government affairs
We add bandwidth to portfolio management as an outsourced government affairs function, monitoring regulatory and political developments, and devising strategies to respond to change.
Global expertise
Our people
We have an on-the-ground presence in every major global regulatory centre. GC's team speaks 25+ languages and provides global coverage, with a network of in-country experts that can support clients in most markets around the world.
First name
William
Sweet
William works with family offices, sovereign wealth, private equity and hedge funds to help them understand and mitigate policy, political and regulatory risk at both the portfolio and transaction level.
First name
Erin
Caddell
Erin leads Global Counsel USA, working with both US-based and non-US-based investors to assess the outlook for US policy across sectors.
First name
Matt
Bevington
Matt leads GC's Regulatory and Political Due Diligence team in the UK, advising investors on the political and policy implications of asset purchases.
Cross-team credentials
Our investor services team draw on the support and insight of our sectoral and thematic teams when undertaking portfolio and transaction-level work. Learn more about the way they collaborate across the business.