The global economy is being fundamentally reshaped by unprecedented levels of disruption, from armed conflict to geopolitical tension, trade fragmentation and regulatory divergence.

Geostrategy delivers timely, practical analysis from our global team of legal experts to help businesses anticipate disruption risk, understand emerging trade and national security dynamics and build the resilience needed to thrive amid sustained uncertainty.

Explore our insights and connect with our team today.

 

How We Support You

Crisis management

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We mobilize immediately to help you manage disruption, protect your people and operations and make confident decisions. We draw on deep experience supporting multinationals through major global crises, including advising a quarter of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 on Russia/Ukraine‑related challenges.

  • Lead cross-functional crisis response across legal, compliance, HR, tax and communications, including urgent operational and structural changes.
  • Stabilize workforce matters, including safety, mobility and employment measures.
  • Triage sanctions and export controls exposure and manage disputes, investigations, cyber and commercial fallout.

Supply chain resilience, scenario planning and business continuity

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We identify and reduce your exposure across global value chains by assessing vulnerabilities and helping you respond decisively to geopolitical and trade shocks.

  • Map upstream and downstream supply chain risks, including critical inputs and dependencies.
  • Assess and mitigate high-risk supplier and customer exposure.
  • Design and facilitate scenario exercises, business continuity playbooks and mitigation roadmaps.

Transaction advisory, market entry and exit strategy

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We leverage our global and local on-the-ground teams to advise on investment strategy early in the decision‑making process, helping you identify opportunities, manage risk and make investments in geopolitically sensitive markets.

  • Advise on market entry, expansion, restructuring, de-risking and exit decisions through a geopolitical lens.
  • Assess geopolitical, regulatory, sanctions and trade impacts pre-diligence, considering both the current landscape and what's on the horizon.
  • Support the full transaction lifecycle, including regulatory approvals, investment screening, tax, customs/tariff and supply chain considerations.

Geopolitical and regulatory counseling for senior leadership

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We equip boards and C-suites with forward-looking insight and practical guidance on emerging geopolitical developments and associated regulatory trends.

  • Monitor and interpret geopolitical, sanctions, export controls, investment screening and trade developments that affect business.
  • Deliver executive briefings tailored by sector, geography and operating model.
  • Design governance, escalation and decision-making frameworks for high-risk situations.
*Trench Rossi Watanabe (Brazil) and Baker McKenzie have executed a strategic cooperation agreement to consult on foreign law.