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Dubai, UAE · Est. 2024

Where advisory meets infrastructure

Osomon combines strategic consulting and geopolitical intelligence with the digital infrastructure that makes cross-border commerce and capital actually move.

Advisory
Strategic Growth · Geopolitical Intelligence · Family Office
Infrastructure
Digital Trade Finance · Critical Minerals · Web3

Strategy, intelligence, and wealth: for principals who operate across borders

Three advisory practices built on direct operating experience, deep market knowledge, and a principal’s instinct for risk.

Strategic Advisory

Growth strategy, market entry, capital structuring, and deal support for businesses scaling across borders. From early positioning and brand development through international distribution, institutional capital events, and complex exits.

Go-to-marketCapital raisesM&A supportDistributionBrand positioningJV structuring

Geopolitical & Commodity Intelligence

Scenario-weighted analysis of geopolitical risk, energy markets, and macroeconomic disruption. Published daily and delivered to institutional subscribers. Built on two decades of commodity market experience.

Conflict analysisEnergy marketsFX & macroScenario modellingSubscriber briefings

Family Office & Wealth Structuring

Advisory for families and principals navigating cross-border wealth structuring, asset protection, and investment strategy. An operator’s understanding of business risk applied to long-term capital.

Wealth structuringCross-border structuringAsset protectionGovernanceInvestment strategy

The systems that make cross-border trade and capital move

Most advisory firms stop at the recommendation. We build and operate the digital infrastructure that executes it.

Digital Trade Finance & Critical Minerals

Blockchain-enabled trade finance infrastructure for critical mineral supply chains. Connecting small-scale producers in remote geographies to global markets through stablecoin payment rails, digital documentation, and distributed ledger matching, at costs typically 50% below conventional bank transactions.

Blockchain trade financeCritical mineralsStablecoin railsSupply chain digitisationWeb3

Osomon Conflict Briefing

Published daily during active conflicts

Geopolitical risk analysis for globally mobile professionals

The Osomon Conflict Briefing tracks the geopolitical, commodity, and financial market implications of the Middle East war. Each edition provides scenario-weighted probability assessments, asset-class projections, and positioning guidance.

Coverage spans oil, LNG, gold, equities, and major currency pairs, with particular focus on how energy supply disruption transmits through to European and Gulf economies.

Brent & WTILNG & TTFGoldEUR/USDGBP/USDS&P 500Strait of HormuzGulf security

What we do, not where we sit

Five capabilities spanning advisory and infrastructure. Applicable across sectors, proven across borders.

Cross-Border Growth & Market Entry

Route-to-market design, distribution architecture, brand positioning, regulatory navigation. Any sector, any geography.

Capital Structuring & Transactions

Deal architecture, fundraising, M&A support, JV structuring, multi-party ownership, and governance through complex exits.

Geopolitical & Commodity Intelligence

Scenario-weighted analysis of conflict, energy markets, FX, and macro risk. Published daily for institutional and private subscribers.

Private Capital & Family Office

Cross-border wealth structuring, asset protection, governance, and investment strategy for families and principals.

Digital Trade Finance & Supply Chains

Blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin payment rails, and commodity tokenisation for critical minerals and trade flows.


Principals, not consultants

Osomon is led by people who have built, operated, and sold businesses, not just advised on them.

Max Davies-Gilbert

Founder

Max founded Osomon after spending a decade building Tequila Enemigo, a super-premium spirits brand, from a blank page to distribution across the US, UK, EU, Mexico, UAE, and Monaco, earning over 60 international awards including multiple Double Gold and Tequila of the Year wins. He completed a majority sale of the business in 2023 and oversaw a family office acquisition of the majority partner in 2026, securing two liquidity events from the same brand.

That experience is the foundation of what Osomon delivers: structuring capital across jurisdictions, building route-to-market from scratch, negotiating with distributors, importers, and key accounts across multiple continents, and navigating complex multi-party ownership and governance through two exits.

Max is also a Founding Board Member of Grey Swan, a next-generation multi-family office.

Market entryCapital structuringDistributionM&A & exitsMulti-family office

Lorenzo Semaratne

Managing Director

Lorenzo spent 14 years at S&P Global Platts, the world’s benchmark pricing agency for energy and commodity markets. As VP of Sales, he led global teams across New York, Houston, London, Moscow, Dubai, and Singapore, covering the firm’s largest accounts and representing over 50% of total Platts revenue.

Prior to the VP role, Lorenzo served as Vice President and Global Head of Strategic Accounts, building the cross-functional frameworks that connected sales, product development, and market analysis to client feedback. His career at Platts gave him a granular understanding of how commodity pricing, geopolitical risk, and institutional decision-making intersect: the analytical foundation behind Osomon’s intelligence practice.

S&P Global PlattsEnergy & commoditiesGeopolitical intelligenceGlobal sales leadershipInstitutional relationships
Advisory & Infrastructure

James Rilett

Lead, Applied Blockchain, Critical Minerals and Web3

James has spent two decades at the intersection of energy, commodities, and digital infrastructure. As Senior Director of Innovation and Digital Strategy at S&P Global Platts, he built and spun out Distro Energy, an AI-powered energy trading marketplace, from concept through to independence with the Port of Rotterdam, achieving a €10m seed valuation and commercial traction across aviation, infrastructure, and municipal power in the US and Europe.

He went on to co-found Salus, an Abu Dhabi-based digital trade finance platform for critical minerals operating on blockchain infrastructure and targeting $1bn in annual trade flows. Previously he served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the London Bullion Market Association, CEO of Minerals Value Service, and Chief Product Officer at an Abu Dhabi-based metals trading fintech. He is ACCA qualified.

S&P GlobalCritical mineralsBlockchain trade financeLBMA Board (INED)Web3Energy transition

Where we operate

Dubai-headquartered with a working footprint that follows our clients’ markets.

Dubai, UAE

Headquarters

Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba. Meydan Free Zone entity.

Gulf Region

Active market

Advisory and intelligence across the GCC: energy, wealth, and family office mandates.

Europe

Active market

Market entry, distribution, and capital advisory across the UK and EU.

The Americas

Active market

Transaction and strategic advisory across the US, Mexico, and Latin America.


Serious capability for serious ambitions

Location
Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor
Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE
Entity
Osomon LLC-FZ