Larive's aim is not to be a traditional business "consultant" but to work with clients from start to finish, creating (strategic) added value for them at each stage of the project's cycle, thereby reducing their exposure to risks and improving their potential financial returns.

Larive combines the quality of larger international organisation with the know-how and cultural expertise of a local company. It provides a practical, customised and integrated range of business services that is market and performance driven. The Group's offices have been structured and staffed with this overriding objective in mind, and remain relatively small, flexible and highly professional.

Larive's success is directly related to its close affiliation with its local partners and staff, who are recruited on the strength of their motivation, entrepreneurial skills, practical business experience and proven track record in international business and their strong local public and private sector networks.

Through its country offices, Larive monitors local political, economic and regulatory developments. In this way Larive can provide its clients with strategic information ahead of others, often at critical moments of economic change or development and especially when this relates to private sector investment and M&A opportunities.