Dubai-Based Comms Consultancy Northstar Opens Shop In Mumbai

(MENAFN- PRovoke) MUMBAI - Dubai-based risk and communications consultancy Northstar Insights has launched its Mumbai office establishing a permanent India presence at a moment when cross-border capital flows, regulatory complexity, and India's rising global ambition are converging faster than most advisory firms are built to handle, it said.

Northstar operates across emerging markets in MENA and APAC. The firm's senior advisors and account executives are embedded across Dubai, London, Mumbai, Seoul, and Paris, each bringing genuine expertise, relationships, and decision-making authority in their respective markets.

The Mumbai office is not a speculative entry, it said. Northstar arrives with established media relationships and a Global Advisory Council connected to sovereign institutions and private capital networks across four continents.

India attracted USD 35.2 billion in foreign direct investment in the first half of FY26 alone, an 18 percent increase year-on-year, and inflows are expected to accelerate further through 2026, supported by big-ticket investment commitments and a new generation of investment-linked trade agreements. The organisations navigating this volume of cross-border capital movement, on both the inbound and outbound side, are precisely the clients NorthStar is built to serve.

"India is no longer a market the world can afford to misread. The capital flows, the regulatory shifts, the cross-border ambitions of Indian organisations are moving at a pace that demands a different quality of counsel. NorthStar is built precisely for that," said Arth Malani, chief executive officer of NorthStar Insights. "We put senior expertise directly into the room where the decisions are being made, providing the perspective, the access, and the clarity that turns India's complexity into a competitive advantage."

Northstar's advisory practice operates across two parallel mandates. For international organisations, the firm translates India's regulatory and political complexity into counsel calibrated for boards and investment committees, mapping the policy environment before it solidifies.

For Indian organisations, it provides the on-the-ground advisory infrastructure across MENA, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe that no India-headquartered firm has been able to build from a domestic base alone.

The firm is structured around a deliberate model: sixty percent of every engagement team is senior. Principals with direct market expertise and established relationships lead every mandate, not as oversight, but as the primary point of counsel. It is a structure designed to ensure that the person with the most relevant experience is also the person in the room when the decision is made.

The Mumbai office will work across financial services and private capital, Indian conglomerates with international growth mandates, multinational corporations operating within India's regulatory environment, the energy and critical minerals sector, and the in-house communications functions of major organisations managing cross-border complexity.

The news comes shortly after Northstar Insights appointed Mark Jackson as its new senior advisor for strategic communications.

The appointment formally marked NorthStar's entry into the Asia-Pacific market and reinforced the firm's commitment to a model that places senior, experienced counsel rather than agency scale at the heart of client work.

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