Insight

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

Our interlocutor 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 expertise, and legal-strategic assessment. Engagements span transaction support, stakeholder assessment, political and regulatory risk, and dispute intelligence.

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, discretion, and structural independence from the interests we assess.

• Multinational corporations navigating governance and regulatory asymmetries
• Private equity and infrastructure funds entering low-information, high-context economies
• Litigation funders mapping political protection, concealed assets, and enforceability
• 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 assessing counterparty and sovereign risk in M&A and distressed asset transactions