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Industrial policy is rewriting competitive economics
How subsidies, export controls and state intervention can alter the relative attractiveness of markets, technologies and investment locations.
Know which restrictions could make a market, supplier or technology inaccessible before compliance becomes an emergency response
We connect sanctions, export controls and counterparty exposure to identify where restrictions can interrupt transactions, supply and market participation.
Sanctions and export controls can reshape business relationships with little transition time. Restrictions may apply directly to countries or entities, but exposure also propagates through banks, distributors, technology components and ownership structures. A company can therefore face disruption even when it is not itself the target of a measure. Market-access analysis requires understanding these indirect pathways and how they intersect with products, counterparties and payment flows. This creates a basis for identifying where restrictions could block activity, what alternatives exist and which dependencies require earlier mitigation.
Focus
Sanctions and controls can close markets faster than strategy can adjust
Restrictions can disrupt customers, suppliers, financing, technology access and contractual relationships across borders.
Read nowStrategic Challenges
Which market relationships could become inaccessible under tighter controls?
The challenge is identifying where sanctions, export restrictions or retaliation could suddenly constrain commercial activity.
Read nowStrategic Impacts
Exposure analysis clarifies where market access depends on geopolitical permission
Mapping counterparties, technologies and jurisdictions helps management assess where restrictions may affect revenue or operations.
Read nowObserved Patterns
Sanctions risk is often treated as compliance rather than strategic exposure
Legal screening can identify prohibited activity without revealing how restrictions could reshape markets, suppliers or business models.
Read nowStrategic Challenges
Which market relationships could become inaccessible under tighter controls?
The challenge is identifying where sanctions, export restrictions or retaliation could suddenly constrain commercial activity.
Read nowStrategic Impacts
Exposure analysis clarifies where market access depends on geopolitical permission
Mapping counterparties, technologies and jurisdictions helps management assess where restrictions may affect revenue or operations.
Read nowObserved Patterns
Sanctions risk is often treated as compliance rather than strategic exposure
Legal screening can identify prohibited activity without revealing how restrictions could reshape markets, suppliers or business models.
Read nowPOV
Compliance tells you what is prohibited; strategy must ask what becomes unviable
Sanctions and export controls can alter business economics long before an activity becomes formally impossible.
Read nowOur approach
Trace restrictive measures through products, counterparties and supply chains to identify where access can fail indirectly
Our approach begins by mapping relevant entities, jurisdictions, technologies, transactions and payment channels across the enterprise. We assess current and plausible sanctions and export-control regimes against these dependencies, including ownership and supplier relationships several tiers removed from direct exposure. Product and market scenarios are then tested for disruption, substitution and redesign requirements. We define monitoring, escalation and alternative pathways around the dependencies where restrictions could materially impair market access or technology availability.
The data and estimates presented are indicative and intended for illustrative purposes. Actual outcomes may vary based on each company’s specific context, market conditions, operating model, implementation choices, and the quality and consistency of execution, including actions undertaken by the client.
Keypillars
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Restriction exposure
Identifies customers, suppliers, products, technologies, jurisdictions, and transactions vulnerable to sanctions or export restrictions
Access constraints
Examines how licensing, ownership rules, restricted-party measures, and trade controls affect the ability to serve or enter markets
Compliance response
Connects screening, contracting, supply-chain controls, technology governance, and escalation processes with changing restriction regimes
Could new sanctions or export controls suddenly restrict your customers, suppliers or market access?
Get in touch with our Sanctions, export controls and market access disruption team to assess exposure, dependencies and operating alternatives.
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Discover our framework01. Map exposure
Identify entities, jurisdictions, products, technologies, transactions, and partners subject to restriction risk
06. Monitor enforcement
Track designation changes, licensing policy, enforcement actions, allied coordination, and emerging restrictions
05. Define options
Assess alternative markets, suppliers, technologies, structures, and exit pathways within applicable constraints
02. Trace regimes
Assess sanctions, export controls, licensing, investment restrictions, enforcement, and extraterritorial reach
03. Test dependencies
Determine where revenue, supply, technology, payments, logistics, or partnerships depend on restricted channels
04. Model restrictions
Evaluate escalation scenarios and their implications for market access, contracts, operations, and supply
How we help
Identify where restrictive measures could interrupt transactions, technology access, sourcing or market participation
We provide sanctions and export-control exposure analysis across products, counterparties, jurisdictions and supply chains. The work can include restriction mapping, entity and ownership exposure, product classification, scenario analysis, alternative sourcing and market-access assessment. Outputs identify direct and indirect pathways through which restrictions can affect the enterprise, where substitution or redesign may be necessary and which exposures require active monitoring before regulatory changes become immediate operational constraints.
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Sanctions exposure assessment
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Export control exposure assessment
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Market access restriction analysis
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Restricted party exposure mapping
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Jurisdictional sanctions exposure
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Secondary sanctions exposure
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Technology export control analysis
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Dual-use goods exposure
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Licensing requirement analysis
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End-use and end-user risk assessment
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Sanctions supply chain mapping
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Sanctions revenue exposure
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Sanctions payment disruption
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Sanctions-driven exit analysis
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Export control product classification
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Sanctions scenario analysis
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Sanctions contingency planning
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Sanctions and controls monitoring
Explore our FAQs
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Restrictions can reach customers, banks, suppliers, technology, shipping and counterparties connected indirectly to sanctioned jurisdictions.
Identify counterparties, ownership, payment flows, products, technologies and jurisdictions that could create direct or indirect restrictions.
Export controls restrict specified goods, software or technology, while sanctions can prohibit broader dealings with entities, sectors or jurisdictions.
Banks, suppliers and customers may reduce exposure early because of legal uncertainty, reputational concerns or anticipated policy changes.
Maintain counterparty visibility, escalation procedures, alternative suppliers and clear decision ownership for transactions that may become restricted.
It helps identify indirect exposure where sanctioned or restricted parties control entities that do not appear explicitly on public lists.
When legal, financial or operational constraints make continued activity untenable or materially inconsistent with acceptable enterprise risk.
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Technology controls increasingly shape where companies can build, buy and operate
Export restrictions, sovereign policy and strategic technology rules can alter access to markets, suppliers and capabilities.
Energy and materials shocks can reshape enterprise economics with little warning
Price spikes, shortages and supply restrictions can alter margins, production, sourcing and investment viability.
Strategic challenges
How much instability can a market absorb before business conditions break?
The challenge is distinguishing manageable volatility from deterioration that changes operating viability or investment logic.
Which locations concentrate more enterprise risk than the map suggests?
The challenge is identifying how assets, suppliers and markets share regional exposures that may not be obvious individually.