Selective
We take few clients, and only where our judgment can change the outcome.
The practice
A private practice.
Our work is bespoke, senior and confidential: a briefing for a board, a judgment for an investment committee, a read on a counterpart before a negotiation.
We do not sell reports.
Approach
Relationships
Our counsel draws on trusted relationships built long before an engagement begins. Access here is earned over years; it does not scale.
Independent
Our counsel is independent, and our standards about whom we act for are exacting.
Where we are engaged
Country and
political risk
How power actually works in a given capital, where it is moving, and what that means for an investment, operation or negotiation.
Counterparties
and partners
Who you are truly dealing with: ownership, allegiances and the obligations that do not appear in the public register.
Market entry
and positioning
Whether to enter, how, and with whom. The local realities that shape an outcome long after the agreement is signed.
Disputes and
sensitive matters
Discreet inquiry in support of litigation, arbitration and sensitive internal matters.
Stakeholders
and regulation
A close reading of the institutions, interests and individuals that will shape a decision.
Method
Built from the ground.
People who are present. Primary documents. A disciplined reading of what is open. We test what we hear against what can be established, and distinguish knowledge from inference.
The judgment reaches the decision-maker in the form the matter requires. Its handling is part of the work from the outset.