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International Relations | Transaction Execution | Crisis Management

SAFA HOLMES Strategic Counsel provides discrete, bespoke support to private family offices, governments, corporations and high-profile individuals in the UK and overseas.

We assist in developing business opportunities and strategic relationships between businesses and governments, focussing on emerging markets. We offer confidential knowledge and understanding of the intricacies, cultures and expectations of doing business in challenging and unpredictable environments.

Our two Founding Principals Mr Ali Safa and Major General (rtd) John Holmes DSO OBE MC, have extensive global expertise and, more importantly, 80 years of actionable experience in successfully understanding and handling often complex and sensitive situations in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Through our extensive network of corporate and political contacts around the world, SAFA HOLMES provides unique access, insights and solutions.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit for us.

ALI SAFA
PRINCIPAL
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN HOLMES
PRINCIPAL

Advisory Council

SAFA HOLMES Strategic Counsel provides bespoke support to private family offices, governments, corporations and high-profile individuals. They assist in developing commercial opportunities and strategic relationships between businesses and governments in the Emerging Markets. They also provide in-depth knowledge and on-ground experience on the intricacies, cultures and expectations of doing business successfully in challenging environments.

The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Hooper
CHAIRMAN

London Office

Our services include:

Our services include:

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Relations​

Commercial initiatives in many areas of the world will depend on practical knowledge of the intricacies, cultures and expectations of a country or region. This is particularly true in the emerging world where a country’s stability, from both an economic and security viewpoint, is sometimes unclear and consequently the risk is difficult to evaluate.

In these circumstances, SAFA HOLMES Strategic Counsel offers an in-depth appreciation of all the factors involved in setting a realistic and achievable outcome. We assist in developing strategic alliances between businesses and governments. Importantly, we assist governments in delivering lasting solutions for the needs of their countries in addition to providing businesses with appropriate alliances in new or emerging markets.

The international business lexicon also requires a political and economic understanding of regional issues such as logistics, communications and security. We offer unique access along with the opportunity for direct communication and the prospect to conclude confidential accords with foreign governments and agencies.

  • Strategic Access
  • Government Support
  • Regional Issues
TRANSACTION EXECUTION

Transaction Execution

Through our extensive network of political reach and corporate contacts around the world, SAFA HOLMES Strategic Counsel provides unique access, insights and solutions. We assist in developing new commercial opportunities and, importantly, identifying the most appropriate strategic and commercial partners, both domestic and international – essentially, we offer all-encompassing solutions.

A commercial project of any form will require legal underpinning from its inception through to signature on the concluding contract. We provide a full range of legal services, including transactional, advisory, negotiation, litigation and offshore. High-level negotiation also requires background knowledge of the business culture of a country, its patterns and expectancies. Crucial factors can often be misunderstood or missed. SAFA HOLMES is exceptional because of their significant on-ground experience, which offers clients the best prospects to achieving a successful outcome.  

Another critical aspect of our work is monitoring project delivery and forecasting significant issues, together with proposed solutions. We recognise that ongoing projects are vulnerable to both economic and political interference, whether by default or design.

  • High-level Negotiation
  • Legal Services
  • Focused Partnership
CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Crisis Management

Insightful project planning will always take account of the unexpected, be it economic, security or politically related. Identifying and offsetting risk from project planning to implementation is a crucial facet of SAFA HOLMES Strategic Counsel’s offering. It is complemented by a set of skills not only to gauge, but also manage crisis both from a practical and public relations viewpoint. Our objective is to emerge from any crisis in a stronger position.

Informed media management has become increasingly important throughout any form of crisis, be it financially, safety or reputationally linked. Good public and press relations are vital both in terms of limiting reputational damage and garnering political support.

Access to accurate intelligence and consequent security measures are vital to both risk assessment and crisis management. Physical, supply chain and digital security are all factors that will need careful evaluation in working towards a realistic and achievable crisis outcome. Our international contacts and access also provide SAFA HOLMES with the reach and acumen for successful asset recovery.

  • Intelligence
  • Security
  • Media Management

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