Insight

Periplus Research provides relationship-based intelligence and strategic advice for commercial decision-making in frontier markets. We deploy interlocutor networks—structured on the methods of Track II diplomacy—to gather otherwise inaccessible insights on stakeholder positions, institutional dependencies, and enforcement dynamics.

Our networks span 85 jurisdictions in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia—integrating native-language dialogue at ministerial, provincial, and coastal levels with ethnography, governance analysis, and political-regulatory expertise.

Most of the world that corporations and institutional investors operate in is legible: filings, registries, databases, financial models. Periplus offers the other part that determines whether the legible structure functions as described. We work selectively with institutional clients requiring objectivity and discretion.

• Multinational corporations navigating governance and regulatory asymmetries
• Private equity and infrastructure funds entering complex, high-context economies
• Litigation funders mapping political protection, concealed assets, and enforcement
• Law firms building case theory for international arbitration and frontier litigation
• Sovereign wealth funds positioning across strategic resources and market transitions
• Development finance institutions ensuring integrity in governance-sensitive contexts
• Investment banks conducting due diligence on M&A and distressed asset transactions