Periplus Research

Periplus Research—named for the navigational manuscripts that charted the unknown—builds on over a decade of experience applying immersive methodology and quality of presence.

We advise corporations and institutional investors where asymmetries determine outcomes, with particular depth in telecommunications and infrastructure, ports and maritime, minerals, and energy transitions. This builds on proprietary network infrastructure and methodologies relied upon by top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, European foreign ministries, international arbitration practices, and Track II diplomatic channels.

Our senior advisors include C-level executives from global industry, finance, and strategic policy, enabling peer-level engagement and delivery where markets, states, and traditional authority intersect. Led by senior principals, Periplus deploys specialised teams with rare network access for each mandate.

Mandates

Representative engagements drawn from hundreds of mandates where formal channels fail or don’t exist—spanning multi-year partnerships to targeted interventions—include:

• Telecommunications privatisation: market entry strategy and bidding architecture
• Subsea cable infrastructure: sovereign consent and strategic engagement pathways
• Ports and maritime infrastructure: sovereign concession dispute resolution
• Strategic minerals: post-transition relationship reconstruction and negotiation
• Energy transition: M&A due diligence, geopolitics, and stakeholder analysis
• Green hydrogen: stakeholder alignment and cultural consent protocols
• Power infrastructure: tribal leadership engagement and operational resilience
• Soft commodity regulations: export price frameworks and supply chain integrity
• Mobile data negotiations: predatory pricing response and regulatory strategy
• Track II peace processes: spatial conflict resolution and territorial dynamics
• Gemstone concessions: traditional authority and ancestral claim dynamics 
• Asset recovery: tracing state embezzlement networks for investor-state litigation
• Award enforcement: mapping state protection and ownership obscurement
• Banking litigation: biographical reconstruction for judicial cross-examination

Specific jurisdictions, parties, and outcomes are protected by client confidentiality.