Insight

Periplus Research provides deep-rooted insight and strategic advice in under-examined markets—where surface indicators mask the deeper currents that shape outcomes.

Our relationship-based networks and commercial ethnographic methods span Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, informing institutional decision-making and negotiations. This approach surfaces otherwise inaccessible insights in the relationship layer across provincial, coastal, ministerial, and stakeholder environments—enabled by cultural proximity and native-language dialogue.

We advise on market and stakeholder issues, government relations and political risk, and transactions and deal strategy—addressing asymmetries where formal reporting often obscures actual dynamics. We work selectively with institutional clients requiring integrity, absolute discretion, and an unconflicted approach to cross-cultural investments.

Institutions

• Global corporations navigating governance challenges and regulatory asymmetries
• Sovereign wealth funds positioning across strategic resources and market transitions
• Private equity and infrastructure funds entering complex, high-friction economies
• Development finance institutions ensuring integrity in governance-sensitive contexts
• Financial institutions conducting pre-transaction investigative due diligence
• Law firms requiring insight into regulatory compliance, arbitration, and litigation
• Foreign ministries establishing discreet channels for dialogue and mediation