Understand hybrid activity.
Identify business threats.
Deliver solutions.
Earendel Associates advises companies on hybrid threats deployed by hostile states, reviews the exposure of clients, and draws on bespoke partnerships to build resilience against identified risks.
“Earendel Associates combines deep subject matter expertise with operational solutions to help corporates identify, counter, and mitigate hybrid threats.”
Guy Spindler, CEO
About Earendel Associates
Deep understanding
Our senior team has a deep understanding – acquired over several decades – of both the strategic intent and tactical methods used by those deploying hybrid techniques to undermine corporates and states.
That understanding is constantly refreshed by our global network of Associates, giving our clients real-time insight to identify risk, challenge assumptions and strengthen resilience.
Informing operational delivery
We are the market-leaders in synthesising geopolitical insight, hybrid threat and business need.
Our expertise combines senior experience from government, military, national security and commercial sectors, providing clients with practical recommendations grounded in real-world understanding of how states, commerce and emerging risks interact.
What makes us different?
Many advisers explain what is happening. We explain why, and what it means for you. We bridge the gaps between geopolitics, hybrid threat, and business.
Hybrid activity includes
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An undeclared state interest behind corporate acquisitions; corporate partnerships formed with the principal purpose of acquiring Intellectual Property (IP); withdrawal of critical services or supply chains.
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Fomenting online activist campaigns against sectors or companies; influencing the wider information environment to increase costs or undermine shareholder or public support for corporate activities; cyber-attacks with the purpose of collecting IP or of releasing information to the detriment of companies’ wellbeing; acquisition and exploitation of bulk data for hostile purposes.
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Sabotage, arson, including by criminal groups or by drone threats; disabling critical infrastructure (datacentres, subsea cables, transport, etc).
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Supporting legal cases to undermine the financial and reputational interests of target sectors or companies; politically motivated trade policies and sanctions.
Our services
Earendel provides specialist advice and solutions across four complementary areas:
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Confidential counsel and on-going support on geopolitical confrontation, hybrid warfare and the strategic behaviour of state actors, and their implications for corporate strategy, commercial exposure and decision making.
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Bespoke and general geopolitical reports to support commercial strategy, investment decisions, due diligence, legal approaches, government engagement, and corporate communications.
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A comprehensive audit designed to identify where geopolitical shifts, state-linked activity, and hybrid threats could impact your business, operations, people, and reputation.
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Practical solutions to strengthen resilience, inform risk management, and improve preparedness; drawing on our own operational capabilities and on partnerships.
Case studies
Legal
Attribution in the
courtroom
Expert advice to legal teams on foreign-state involvement in major commercial disputes.
Energy and investment
Ukraine-Russia: what it means for exposure
Assessed the impact on sanctions, energy markets and investment exposure.
Transactions
Due diligence beyond the balance sheet
Geopolitical due diligence to inform deals and counterparty decisions.
Technology
State ambitions in data,
AI and space
Assessed state ambition across digital infrastructure and what they mean for corporate strategy.
Industry and infrastructure
Unpicking ownership obfuscation
Investigated opaque ownership, financing and influence around a strategically important European production facility.
Reputation
Anatomy of an activist campaign
Research on activist campaigns, lawfare funding and the role of state actors in reputational risk.