Earlier this month Claire Enders, the founder of media consultancy Enders Analysis and a member of the Shott panel, admitted that there are "long intractable issues" with the plan.
"Google is going to keep trying with this, but that doesn't mean it's going to succeed," said Ian Maude from the consultancy Enders Analysis.
"This is a huge blow to the Kirchners, a major defeat on an issue that they framed as a defining moment of their presidency," said Daniel Kerner, an analyst with Eurasia Group, a political risk analysis consultancy based in New York.
"It does give off the appearance that the violence is linked to strategic moves by one or both sides to improve their positions," said Ana Jelenkovic, an associate at the Eurasia Group, a political risk analysis consultancy.
"Among our clients, particularly banks, hedge funds and investors, there is a lot of interest in Nigeria," said Sebastian Spio-Ganbranalystanalyst for the Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk analysis consultancy.
Indeed, there is little "inclusive" about the capitalism that HJS' risk consultancy project, Strategic Analysis, seeks to protect, when it advertises its quarterly research reports on "the oil and gas sector in all twenty" countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The two had met months before Mr. Litvinenko's death, sharing an interest in the business of risk analysis, consultancy and information gathering in a world familiar to both of them.
Douglas-Westwood, another energy consultancy, has market analysis pointing to a tail of investment commitments, which gradually falls away in some sectors, unless the price picks up.
Killing by Numbers The shift is reflected in statistics collected by Verisk Maplecroft, a risk analysis consultancy, which show that Revolutionary Punishment and similar bands of disaffected youth have displaced traditional jihadists since autumn 2014.
DB designed the analytic plan and provided statistical support and analysis consultancy.
John B. Collins received consultancy fees for analysis and interpretation of the study data.
