Global Capability

The practice draws on front-line investment banking and consultancy experience of working with organisations ranging from governments and multilaterals - such as the World Bank, ADB, OECD and UN - through to UHNW family offices. The team’s experience includes activities such as Privatisation and M&A (including FDI) through to corporate restructuring; industry coverage is broad together with particular regional depth across the EU, CEE, MENA, Asia and Japan.

The engagements below are a selected illustration of this work across policy, research, and structural advisory sectors. With the exception of named institutional collaborations and public contributions, clients are not identified.

Policy and Multilateral Engagement

• Presentation at ministerial level to the OECD - ILO conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, addressing the integration of Economic, Social and Political capital.

• Contribution to the United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) on supporting the transition to a global Green Economy, examining the role of the financial sector in mediating the relationship between capital allocation and environmental outcomes.

• Development of a bilateral trade model between Portugal and the People's Republic of China, oriented toward the wine and tourism industries.

• Design of a pensions investment platform supporting informed choice in the face of uncertainty.

• Government participation in the Space Economy.

Strategic Initiatives

• Development of a common platform for the alternative investment sector, designed to address the institutionalisation of emerging managers.

• Research on the subject of behavioural risk in the management of investment portfolios.

• Development of a proposals for the acceleration of research focused on Life Sciences - the Rare Diseases sector.

Sector Analysis

• The consumer finance sector across Central and Eastern Europe, undertaken in a period of rapid institutional development.

• The regional banking sector in the People's Republic of China, focused on the structural conditions governing the relationship between local financial institutions and the wider economy.

• The global automotive tyre recycling industry, addressing the structural and regulatory dynamics of a sector positioned at the intersection of industrial policy and environmental obligation.

Media Contributions

• Financial Times (FT)
  International Financing Review (IFR)
  Managed Funds Association Reporter

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