Our Services
Trade and Investment
With a strong understanding of the business and political landscape in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines, elkamy prides itself on successfully supporting businesses enter new markets and producing tailored solutions for clients seeking to expand existing businesses.
Governments can be difficult to navigate, particularly in Southeast Asia where markets have a highly dynamic political landscape and competing domestic interests. Australia, on the other hand, has robust and complex of governance, which can make it difficult for businesses to identify trade and investment opportunities. We can guide you and your business through government processes and procedures, provide you with nuanced market assessments and detailed country briefings, and craft strategies that will help you maximise the trade and investment opportunities available to you.
Beyond the relationship between your business and the public sphere, relationships within the private sector also play a vital role in your company’s success. Our team has significant experience in providing business-to-business matching services, planning and conducting overseas business missions, and facilitating international agreements and partnerships.
Government Engagement
A company’s relationship with government can play a critical role in a business’ ability to grow. A positive relationship with governments can enable a business to position itself as a trusted partner and stay ahead of any potential policy and regulatory risks.
Our team has extensive access to governments in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines including senior ministers and executives, members of parliament and government staff. This gives elkamy insight into government decision making processes, enabling us to advise you and support the development of trust-based relationships with government regardless of leadership turnovers and political instability.
We have worked with governments at all levels: federal/national, state, and local and through these engagements, we have developed short, medium and long term government engagement strategies for our clients that have successfully aided market expansion and secured government support and incentives.
As the consultant to the Thailand Board of Investment (the Royal Thai Government’s investment promotion agency) in Australia and New Zealand, we can provide expert guidance on the processes for applying for promotion under the Board of Investment and ensure that your business can enjoy the full range of tax and non-tax incentives available.
Reputation and Risk
Reputation is currency in building relationships with governments, employees and stakeholders, and how a business responds to an issue, can have a lasting impact on its reputation.
As businesses grow, issues and risks are often overlooked and become harder to manage. An external point of view can assist in successfully navigating the politics and optics of an issue, and more importantly, identify an issue before it materialises.
The elkamy team has extensive experience in responding to issues and managing reputational risks. We do this by taking the time to understand your business and then undertaking policy, program or operational reviews and developing recommendations and strategies to respond to the issue and mitigate any risks.
Our advice will provide you with strategies and interventions that align with your business objectives, allowing your business to implement short-, medium-, and long-term responses to external and internal risks.
Public Affairs
Delivering the right message, to the right people, at the right time is critical for any business or government organisation. Our team will drive your communications and stakeholder engagement strategies and work with you to ensure your key messages are being heard.
We have significant experience in undertaking independent policy and program reviews, developing policy proposals, submissions, and funding applications. Our team can also coordinate and assist you to prepare for meetings with government officials, draft written submissions to consultation papers, develop policies that align with government objectives and develop stakeholder engagement plans.
We also have a passion for planning and coordinating events and international business missions. Our team have successfully coordinated the Thailand Board of Investment’s events across Australia and New Zealand for the last six years.
No project is too large or too small for us: whether it is delivering an industry roundtable, a national or international seminar or webinar our team will create an event that meets your needs.
Business Development
Successful business development and market expansion activities require a business to be able to clearly articulate its value to prospective clients. These activities need to be uniquely tailored to the needs and objectives of the prospective client and requires a nuanced understanding of what they value in a partner.
Our team understands this and has an extensive network of businesses and industry groups across Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines and an intimate knowledge of their plans and objectives. Our team can embed ourselves in your operations to develop a robust understanding of your business and support you to map and identify viable business development targets.
Once we have mapped the business development targets, we will advise your business on how to best demonstrate its value, using insights and business intelligence gathered from our in-market networks.
Monitoring and Analysis
Investments and business expansions are critical decisions for any business and information is key in determining when and where to invest. We understand that it is often difficult for a business to distinguish between real opportunities and statements meant to entice investments in a particular market.
At elkamy, we provide political market and monitoring services that will enable your business to maintain market awareness. What makes us different from other consulting firms is that our advice is based on first-hand information and insights from key decision makers, providing a nuanced understanding of the market and the underlying dynamics. Our advice considers how business leaders assess the viability of a market.
Our advice is provided in two ways:
Client-specific: elkamy will monitor relevant political, policy, regulatory, and market developments that are specific to your business, delivered regularly, as agreed with the client; or
Subscription-based: elkamy will release monthly political and market notes to subscribers, which provide macro-level analysis on the key political, policy, regulatory, and market developments.