Discipline
Advisory & business development
Critical materials advisory
Counsel on the materials the world is competing for.
An independent advisory practice in critical and strategic materials, strategic metals and rare earths.
Focus
Critical & strategic materials
End markets
Defence · Aerospace · Semiconductors · Storage
Offices
Dubai · Monte Carlo · Miami
Position
Advisory first. Experience before inventory.
Empress Global Materials is an advisory firm. We work alongside producers, processors, industrial buyers and investors who need judgement on critical materials before anyone commits.
We hold no stock and take no title to material. What the client is buying is experience in this market and the time to use it, on terms agreed in writing before work begins.
Every material has a grade, a story and a counterparty. The work is to establish all three before capital moves.
Experience
Six years in critical and strategic materials.
The practice is led by Valeria Andreoni. Six years in strategic metals, critical raw materials and rare earths — the narrow end of the market, where supply sits in few hands and qualification is slow.
A business developer who works alongside the client's own people, and whose value is judgement on a market that is difficult to read from the outside.
Practice
Five lines of work, one discipline.
01
Deal advisory
Reading a transaction before it is signed.
02
Counterparty sourcing
Finding and qualifying producers, processors and end buyers.
03
Market access
What a serious buyer in these sectors expects to see.
04
Business unit development
Building a critical-materials desk inside an existing company.
05
Commercial strategy
Where a company should compete, and how the function is organised.