Global Counsel helps investment decision-makers anticipate and mitigate the impacts of politics, policy and regulation on assets and investment portfolios. Drawing on our extensive network, time in market and primary research, we provide global investors with timely, accurate and meaningful 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.

Our macro advisory services support clients monitoring, anticipating and adapting to global political events and trends. Country or thematic risk assessments and scenario development help clients judge and balance portfolio risk exposures and respond to immediate challenges or opportunities. Our work is informed by detailed on the ground insights combined with best in class analysis and research.

Our buyer due diligence service works with acquirers and lenders to evaluate the ways in which politics, policy and regulation shape an asset’s value. This can include transaction-based political due diligence to inform bid/offer pricing and acquisition strategy and portfolio reviews to stress test holdings against major political or regulatory change.

Our strategic advisory services integrate our macro view directly and concretely into a client’s strategic planning for key events such as mergers and acquisitions, market entries and major strategy changes. Executive briefings providing succinct and actionable insights for senior business and risk managers, with ongoing support in implementation.

Our vendor due diligence services focus on supporting vendors in building credible, evidence-based sales narratives for assets. This can be crucial where policy and regulatory frameworks underpin the asset’s business model. The need to explain the underlying policy framework which the asset relies on to potential buyers or lenders is an integral part of the sale process.