Critical Intelligence

  complexity into advantage

  • Deciphering influence networks, opaque relationships, and unwritten mechanisms that shape decisions and power balances — enabling clients to grasp context, risk, timing, and leverage points.

  • Integrity reviews, beneficial ownership mapping, wealth tracing, and KYC/AML investigations supporting compliant, informed engagement.

  • Evaluation of operational threats, conflict actors, criminal exposure, and terrorism risk — including the strength of government and private contractors response, their prevention and incident-handling capacity.

  • Deep and fully rounded insights into commercial and regulatory environments, bid support, local partners profiling, and competitive distortions that affect entry, growth, financial and operational sustainability.

  • Assessment and facilitation of green, fiscal, financial, and administrative incentives — including land, infrastructure and trade advantages — to accelerate approvals, and maintain pace and alignment throughout entry and launch cycles.

  • Rigorous fact-finding, source validation, and documentation cross-checks to underpin decisions with verified information.

  • Discrete intelligence gathering to inform case strategy, including private investigations, witness tracing, analysis and response to interference risks.

Intelligence Case Studies

Transaction Advisory

horizons into value

  • Design and validation of business cases, financial viability and stakeholders alignment; and transaction economics on mergers, acquisitions, and joint-ventures.

  • Identification of local sponsor capital and engagement of credible equity partners, including HNWIs, industrial groups, family offices, and strategic partners — to anchor transactions on the ground.

  • Engagement with domestic lenders to negotiate and structure competitive, compliant, and context-aware financing solutions — leveraging relationships and market intelligence to optimise capital access.

  • Structuring support through development and multilateral finance institutions — leveraging relationships with AfDB, Afrexim, IsDB, IFC, U.S. DFC, and other regional development partners across Africa and the Gulf.

  • Support fund managers and corporate clients in structuring and securing capital for vehicles and strategies delivering financial returns, or climate, social and humanitarian impact.

  • Structuring of Sharia-compliant instruments in collaboration with Islamic finance partners and development institutions. Our dual familiarity with conventional and Islamic markets enables blended, compliant, and investor-aligned transactions across Africa and the Gulf.

  • Integration of ESG principles and performance criteria into transaction design to meet investor expectations, international frameworks, and sustainability benchmarks.

  • Reinforcement of transaction viability through early engagement with offtakers and buyers across regional markets and international markets, including the leverage of trade agreements, trade finance products, and cross-border value-chains.

Transaction Case Studies