Political Risk Insurance and Risk Management Solutions

Enterprises of any size or sector can be exposed to political and financial security risks.

If you trade in emerging or unstable markets, or engage in cross-border trading, you may be vulnerable to the anomalies of both macro and micro socio-economic change.

This can affect your ability to source new materials, secure and manage contracts with overseas manufacturers, define terms of trade and demonstrate financial liquidity to support sales and growth.

Our Political, Project and Credit Risks team includes expert practitioners who are highly practised in providing comprehensive and flexible cover to suit your unique circumstances.

We can provide access to specialist London and international insurers and reinsurers, and are dedicated to structuring solutions that go beyond transactional broking.

By analysing your exposures, we can advise, design and help you obtain the appropriate terms, offering you continuous support throughout  the implementation of your programme.

Areas of expertise include:

Political risks

• Risks to contracts (government frustration, repudiation, embargo)
• Risks to overseas assets (deprivation, forced abandonment, sabotage and terrorism, war damage, confiscation)
• Risks to receivables (non-payment due to government buyer default) 
• Risks to the generation of revenue (inconvertibility, trade disruption, force majeure)

Project risks

• Risks to cross border projects for lenders and developers
• Expropriatory acts (including operating licence cancellation, selective discrimination and forced divestiture) 
• Embargo and sanction risks
• Currency transfer risk
• Terrorism, political violence and forced abandonment