Infrastructure strategy, economics and transactions

Policy and sector-based strategies includes market analysis and market design, providing insights into value creation, optimal investment strategies, options appraisals, as well as advising on industry and sector reform. This includes recent sector work on transport strategy, energy strategy, healthcare infrastructure strategy and the strategy for the infrastructure in the justice system. Our expertise ensures informed decision-making for sustainable and effective infrastructure solutions and can drive effective policy solutions to the biggest challenges

Project strategies including helping craft compelling and evidence-based narratives that articulate the strategic imperatives, benefits, and value propositions of infrastructure initiatives, empowering decision-makers to confidently support and invest in critical projects.

Pioneering economic appraisal frameworks: Our teams create innovative frameworks tailored to assess the unique and emerging aspects of infrastructure projects, enabling clients to accurately evaluate the economic viability, societal impact, and long-term value of novel ventures. This has led to novel solutions around funding various asset classes by looking at the beneficiaries of projects.

Economic impact assessment: We leverage advanced economic modelling techniques, assess and forecast the wide-ranging economic impacts of infrastructure projects, including on job creation, GDP growth, sectoral development, and regional prosperity, providing clients with comprehensive insights to make informed investment decisions and enable analysis of key issues related to market capacity within supply chains.

Sustainability: We help clients articulate their sustainability strategy and identify tangible ways of delivering on their sustainability ambition through their business model and processes. We define targets and implementation plans for products, services and functions. This includes tech-enabled solutions for the integration of ESG requirements into strategy and project, programme and portfolio management. We also advise on procurement strategy – creating a systematic approach to ensure products, services and materials that are purchased align with sustainability goals.

We also support clients in identifying sustainable finance sources for their projects; to develop tools to evaluate and measure the impact of social value strategies; and to develop sophisticated ESG data and reporting that is fully integrated, assured and SDG-aligned.

Mobility: We support the future of mobility which is being fuelled by three key technology-driven disruptive trends: electrification of vehicles, connected & autonomous vehicles and Mobility-as-a-Service. We work with consumers and business to seize the benefits of this mobility revolution and identify strategies and investment plans to meet this opportunity.

Pricing and payment reform: We specialise in developing efficient pricing and payment mechanisms across infrastructure, government and healthcare industries. Examples from transport include work on ticketing solutions and work to identify fares that maximise revenue while offering customers diverse choices and in healthcare to look at methods for paying for services whether linked to capitation or fee for service models. Our advice encompasses market analysis, competition dynamics, technology choices and customer experience design to support sustainable revenue growth.

Charging and regulated industries: We specialise in conducting economic and financial assessments and thorough risk analyses whether for regulators or operators / asset owners who are regulated.  Our expertise support robust infrastructure charging and regulation practices - whether for business as usual or capital enhancement programs. Funding and negotiations We help devise pioneering funding mechanisms intricately tied to the benefits that will be realised by infrastructure investments. Establishing close alignment between funding streams and project outcomes maximises the potential to secure funding from the widest possible range of sources. Our teams provide expert guidance and strategic support to navigate the complexities of negotiations with local and central government entities, facilitating mutually beneficial agreements that align with clients' infrastructure objectives and regulatory frameworks.

Funding and negotiations: We help devise pioneering funding mechanisms intricately tied to the benefits that will be realised by infrastructure investments. Establishing close alignment between funding streams and project outcomes maximises the potential to secure funding from the widest possible range of sources. Our teams provide expert guidance and strategic support to navigate the complexities of negotiations with local and central government entities, facilitating mutually beneficial agreements that align with clients' infrastructure objectives and regulatory frameworks.

We provide support throughout the contract bidding lifecycle, for example in relation to franchising markets. Our roles have encompassed all stages of the process from evaluation of opportunities, through pre-qualification (quality and finance), bid quality (plan writing, review, bid strategy, bid management) and bid finance (financial modelling, bid finance team, financial documentation) to mobilisation and delivery.

We support those looking to enter new markets related to government and infrastructure programmes and assets as well as those looking to merge, acquire or divest of infrastructure and government assets. This includes provision of strategic advice, industry trends, policy implications, growth opportunities, commercial and regulatory due diligence, structuring and integration advice.