Insight

Periplus Research provides relationship-based intelligence and strategic advice where outcomes depend on realities structurally inaccessible to conventional analysis. We deploy interlocutor networks to answer specific client questions about stakeholder positions, institutional dependencies, and enforcement realities—operating outside traditional commercial due diligence and political risk models.

Our interlocutor networks span 75 jurisdictions in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. Through native-language dialogue and ethnographic, governance, and political-regulatory analysis, we surface proprietary insights at ministerial, provincial, and coastal levels that address the gap between what formal channels reveal and what implementation requires.

Most of the world that corporations and institutional investors operate in is legible: filings, databases, compliance frameworks, due diligence reports. Periplus offers the other part that determines whether the legible structure functions as described. We work selectively with decision-makers requiring integrity, discretion, and an unconflicted approach.

• 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-context economies
• Development finance institutions ensuring integrity in governance-sensitive contexts
• Investment banks conducting due diligence on M&A and distressed asset transactions
• Law firms building case theory for international arbitration and frontier litigation
• Litigation funders mapping political protection, concealed assets, and enforcement