Advisory Services

Periplus advises on matters where the decisive facts are unwritten, held by the people closest to them. Through human-source networks, the firm establishes an independent line of sight: how a decision is likely to move, who holds real leverage, whether consent will hold, and how a counterparty will act when tested. This informs board and executive strategy, investment-committee decisions, and transaction structuring. In contentious matters the work is investigative: reconstructing what happened against an interested account, and establishing what can be recovered. Both proceed within the firm’s compliance frameworks, alongside the client’s own legal and financial advisers, and internal teams.

Political & Regulatory Intelligence

Government intent, decision-making authority, and factional balance

Market entry/exit and operating-environment assessment

Sovereign consent and regulatory sequencing

Contract durability and renegotiation risk

Community consent and social licence

The advisor effectively controlled the portfolio; the actual minister received orders rather than giving them.

Mining Portfolio Monitoring

Authority rarely sits where the title suggests. An approval that looks final can unravel when the official who gave it moves on. Before capital is committed, what settles the outcome is who actually holds the decision and which way power is drifting. Periplus reads both while the position can still change.

Transaction & Counterparty Intelligence

Transaction viability and counterparty positioning

Enhanced due diligence on management integrity and beneficial ownership

Local partners, distributors, and the interests behind them

Execution risk and unmapped approvals

Supply-chain integrity and post-close monitoring of assets and performance

The company was beneficially owned by a presidential relative, held through a nominal shareholder structure.

Data Centre Beneficial Ownership

Deals close on the model and fail on the counterparty: on integrity, on true beneficial ownership, on whether the structure survives once relationships replace documents. Periplus frames its findings around the decision a client faces: proceed, reprice, restructure, or walk, while every option is still open.

Enforcement & Recovery Intelligence

Collectability assessment before acquisition, funding, or proceedings

Judgment and award enforcement, asset tracing, and commercial-capacity identification

Sovereign conduct and attribution beneath treaty and State-responsibility claims

Sovereign debt restructuring and the politics of settlement

Political protection, patronage, and negotiation leverage

The collectable value lay not at the wellhead the judgment named, but in the transit and the offtake.

Pipeline Transit and Recovery

Enforcement is a political problem before it is a legal one. Whether a judgment can be executed turns on kinship, patronage, and protection as much as on the merits. Periplus assesses collectability before the cost of enforcement is authorised—whether the win is reachable, who controls the asset, and what protects it—and sequences the recovery so a paper victory becomes a collected one.

Standing interlocutors hold sector-specific relationships in the markets where access is hardest to obtain, built over years rather than assembled for a mandate. What is found is read against context and weighed against what is left unsaid—the distance between official register and private view—then tested against the arrangements that decide outcomes.

The work is delivered as:

Bespoke analytical reports and oral briefings, built on the network’s source reporting and framed around the decision at hand

Continuing source reporting and periodic assessments, on standing engagements

Chronologies, corroboration notes, and litigation-ready documentation, for legal teams

Expert reports and testimony, before ICSID, the LCIA, ICC, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, and DIAC, in ad hoc arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules, and before the English and US courts

Project work runs in weeks; urgent briefs in days; standing engagements report continuously; contentious matters to the procedural timetable.

A ministry granted the licence; a parallel understanding determined what it was worth.

Selected mandates, drawn from hundreds