Political & Public Policy Risk Assessment and Counsel

Our ability to combine political and public policy expertise with timely and actionable insight is at the core of our value to our clients. Clients turn to our expertise to make major business decisions in regulated markets.

We get to know our clients' unique interests and concerns and work in real time with clients to connect the dots among the public policymaking arena, private markets, and business outcomes.

The firm provides strategic counsel in managing, measuring, and capitalizing on risk emanating from political, legislative policy, and regulatory policy.

Specifically, we help clients understand and appropriately respond to government action and the spinoff risks associated with that action by:

Providing clients with assessments of legislative and regulatory outcomes as they relate to business operations and strategic planning.

Finding opportunities originating from policy changes and political developments.

Creating and managing strategies for businesses and formulating actions, engagements, and messages to mitigate public policy impact on business.

Management Consulting

As leaders face critical decisions about how to grow their organizations, cut costs, define future investment allocations, and leave or enter markets, government action and the business environment are wild cards that can make or break a strategy. Oftentimes those decisions require deep expertise that in-house corporate teams cannot build fast enough.

We support our clients in addressing a range of challenges at the intersection of public policymaking and business, including:

Strategy Development — We work closely with clients to incorporate into a client’s strategic plan any relevant government action (e.g. legislation, agency regulation, executive orders, court decisions, etc.) that would impact a client.
Risk Management — Corporate leadership is increasingly finding that public policymaking and political risk are important, but often struggle with how to identify and measure the relevant risks. We help clients tie specific external risks to performance drivers and develop individual metrics for continuously monitoring risk levels and deltas over time.
Business Deal Support — Investors are increasingly finding that the public policymaking arena is central to their decisions in making certain purchases and divestitures. We help clients unpack relevant factors in the public policymaking arena and business environment that impact deal feasibility and valuation, including investor treatments, a target's operational environment, and similar risks.