Managing Critical Issues & Risks Across Emerging Markets

Speyside Group provides an analytical assessment of the social license to operate in mining and the above-ground risks now shaping critical minerals investment across Asia Pacific. As permitting, community influence, and resource nationalism intensify, technical strength alone no longer guarantees returns. This insight examines how investors can evaluate permitting, social legitimacy, and operating-environment stability, and how companies can build the trust that increasingly determines market access, project delivery, and long-term value.

Speyside Group analyzes the implications of the European Commission's Food and Feed Safety Simplification Package, one of the most consequential initiatives emerging from Brussels' expanding Omnibus agenda. As the European Union seeks to strengthen competitiveness, accelerate innovation, and reduce regulatory burdens, the proposal has become a test of whether procedural simplification can be achieved without weakening the precautionary principles that have long defined European food governance.

Speyside Group provides an analytical assessment of Mexico's General Circular Economy Law (LGEC), the framework that introduces Extended Producer Responsibility and circular-design obligations for companies handling plastics, packaging, glass, and paper. With the Regulation due July 19, 2026 and the National Program due in early 2027, this insight maps the pending instruments, the regulatory timeline, and the concrete steps companies should take now to shape their sector obligations