Policy centres produce diagnosis. Almost nobody produces draftable regulatory text. That distance is a lawyer's craft.
We have advised the mining ministries of Chile, Panama and Ecuador on the design of regulatory frameworks for natural resources, with direct experience leading Chile's mining regulator.
The pattern repeats. The diagnosis is usually excellent, often produced by a multilateral or a university centre, and it is almost never accompanied by text that can actually enter a legislative or regulatory process.
The reform stalls in translation. Not for lack of political will and not for lack of analysis, but because nobody's job is to turn the finding into an article, with its transitional provisions, its sanctions regime and its institutional capacity note attached.
Not the whole sector: a regulation, an award procedure, a model contract.
Two or three, with what worked and what did not.
Articulated and ready for the applicable legislative or regulatory process.
What institutional capacity the proposed rule actually demands, and whether the agency has it.
Fixed, closed price with no hourly billing. Guaranteed turnaround from receipt of complete background material. The full value of the package is credited against the following mandate if you engage us within six months. Delivered as a signed document plus a 60-minute presentation session.
Ministries, public agencies, multilateral banks and cooperation agencies. Available as an individual consultant and as local expert within consortia.
Scope and fees are set by proposal, according to the organisation's procurement route.
With multilateral banks and cooperation agencies we enter as an individual consultant or as local expert within a consortium, not as a firm on a supplier roster. We deliver design and analysis: the rule itself is issued, signed and defended by the agency. And we do not comment publicly on the internal decisions of the ministries we advise — we criticise public policy, not the client who hired us.
Nine in all. Clients usually start with the one that unblocks the next decision, not with the biggest one.
From US$18,000 · 3 weeks. Whether the asset is executable before you sign: regulatory risk matrix, a permitting schedule that survives an investment committee, and the counterparty map.
From US$12,000 · 3 weeks. Declaration or full impact study, with the reasoning to defend the choice. Sectoral sequence with critical path and the three permits that decide the schedule.
US$9,500 · 4–6 weeks. Corporate structure, concession audit under Ley 21.420, obligations calendar and a board opinion. Your Chilean operation standing in six weeks.
Cultural gaps and different regulatory frameworks are tremendously intimidating when investing in an unknown jurisdiction. Sound professional support provides an edge.
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