Case Studies

Seven anonymised engagements. Each one is written up around the decision that actually mattered, not the deliverable.

Anonymised accounts of engagements where the outcome turned on a specific decision rather than on general good practice. Client identities, jurisdictions and figures have been changed or removed where disclosure would be inappropriate, and the analytical substance has been left intact.

They are grouped around the situations that bring companies to this practice: entering a market without surrendering control, holding a licence when the political ground moves, pricing risk into a plan honestly, seeing a crisis early enough to act, walking away from a transaction that looked attractive, and leaving a market cleanly when staying is no longer defensible.

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Early Warning in the Sahel

18 July 2026

How a monitoring and decision system put the client ahead of a Sahel security crisis instead of behind it, and what the escalation thresholds triggered.
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Entering the Gulf on the Right Terms

18 July 2026

Winning anchor work in Saudi Arabia and the UAE without surrendering control, margin or intellectual property to a local partner structure.
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Keeping the License to Operate

18 July 2026

Resetting the relationship with the community living next to the asset, and salvaging a project that had already lost local consent and was close to shutdown.
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Repricing Political Risk into the Plan

18 July 2026

Rebuilding a five-year strategy so capital followed risk-adjusted return rather than headline growth, and what the reweighting changed about the portfolio.
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Surviving a Change of Government

18 July 2026

Protecting a long-life asset, and the working relationship behind it, when a hostile administration took power and the previous arrangements stopped applying.
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The Deal That Didn’t Happen

18 July 2026

Integrity and political due diligence that turned an attractive acquisition into an avoided liability, and the specific findings that stopped the transaction.
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The Orderly Exit

18 July 2026

Leaving an untenable market cleanly and lawfully, protecting staff and counterparties, and avoiding becoming the cautionary tale competitors cite for years.