Global advisory · Founded 2011
We advise global enterprises, sovereigns and founders on decisions in energy, maritime trade, technology, capital and applied intelligence.
The firm
Sectors
We organise the practice around the seven industries in which singular depth compounds into a measurable advantage for our clients. Every partner is a practitioner of the sector they advise.
From gigawatt renewables to grid integrity, hydrogen and the nuclear renaissance.
Fleet renewal, alternative fuels, port concessions and the rewrite of every hull's economics.
Sovereign cloud strategy, OT-IT convergence, digital-twin programmes and engineering org design.
Cross-border, contested, complex. Sell-side, buy-side, defence, and integration.
Upstream economics, refining configuration and trading-book governance.
Net-zero pathways, CBAM, EU ETS, credit quality and credible industrial decarbonisation.
Succession, executive search, board composition, compensation philosophy and cultural diligence.
Foundation-model strategy, industrial agents, AI governance and decision intelligence.
01 — Energy & Power
We work with utilities, IPPs, sovereigns and infrastructure funds on integrated energy strategy — without the orthodoxies of either side of the debate.
02 — Shipping & Maritime
The next decade will rewrite the economics of maritime trade. We are the advisor of choice to shipowners, charterers, ports and yards across all major basins.
03 — Technology & Digital
We help industrial enterprises and platform companies make the technology decisions that compound. From refinery digital twins to sovereign cloud.
04 — Mergers & Acquisitions
Cross-border, cross-sector, contested. When the deal is hard, when the counterparties are difficult, when the timetable is impossible.
05 — Petroleum & Downstream
We advise NOCs, IOCs, traders and infrastructure owners on a hydrocarbon system that is neither dying nor saved — and on the asymmetries that result.
06 — Carbon & Climate
We design and audit decarbonisation pathways that are scientifically defensible, financially honest and regulator-ready.
07 — Human Capital
We design the leadership architecture of multi-billion-dollar groups — from succession to compensation to the cultural codes that survive an IPO.
Applied Intelligence
We engineer artificial intelligence where it earns its keep — inside refineries, on the bridge of a tanker, across the spreadsheets of a corporate treasury, and in the deal-rooms of the world's largest transactions.
I.
We advise CEOs and boards on the foundation-model question — build, buy, fine-tune, host or abstain — across thirty-one industrial use cases.
II.
Supervised AI agents deployed against the unglamorous workflows of an industrial enterprise — port-call planning, KYC review, diligence packs.
III.
Board-grade governance: model inventories, red-team programmes, EU AI Act alignment, model-risk management policies the regulator can read.
IV.
Model-augmented reasoning compressing months of analytical work into days. Used internally every day, by clients increasingly so.
Approach
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Two weeks of quiet — reading the institution's filings, walking its facilities, listening to leadership and counterparties — before the first written page is produced.
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Every recommendation is tested by a red team of partners drawn from outside the sector of the engagement. Our internal disagreement is the discipline we charge for.
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The senior partner who signed the recommendation remains personally accountable through execution — into the board, the regulator and the negotiation room.
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The mandates we are proudest of are the ones you will never read about. The firm's confidentiality does not expire, flex or bend for marketing.
Insights
Why the next decade of shipping will be re-rated — for owners, charterers and lenders alike.
A practical framework for integrated energy operators reconciling renewables with the hydrocarbon present.
A sector-by-sector argument for which AI investments compound and which decay.
A vintage-by-vintage, methodology-by-methodology quality framework for voluntary carbon markets.
A diagnostic drawn from twenty-one carve-outs and a rule we now refuse to violate.
Why the world's best refineries are entering their most profitable decade.
Global presence
The firm's principal seat. Energy, maritime and petroleum.
41.10° N · 29.00° E
Capital advisory, M&A, governance and leadership.
51.50° N · 0.12° W
Sovereign engagements, family-office advisory, MENA capital.
25.20° N · 55.27° E
Maritime, bunkering, downstream and APAC technology.
1.29° N · 103.85° E
Upstream, refining, North-American power and petrochemicals.
29.76° N · 95.37° W
Contact
Every engagement begins with a private, no-obligation conversation with one of the firm's partners. We respond to serious enquiries within one business day, and we treat every inbound message as privileged from the moment it reaches us.