Emerging markets is a partnership business. Legal, technology, and consultancy leaders are the backbone of expanding EM investment and growth. All the capital in the world can do little without this vital expertise, and that's why we call them Premier Partners.
2025 stretched these relationships like never before, not only as trusted hands to manage operational uncertainty, but in delivering on critical forward-looking projects: unlocking capital access, reducing friction, and assuring confidence. For the growing range of global investors homing in on EM opportunities, and EM organizations looking to go global, alike.
We invite you to celebrate these big wins with us. Explore how below.
Six Premier Partner Categories
For leaders with four or more years of experience.
| Legal Experts
Senior counsel from local or global firms focused on moving major investment in EM forward.
| Professional Partners
Management consultants and accounting firm leadership dedicated to emerging markets' corporate engagment, EM fund formation and capital markets evolution.
| Financial Technology & Infrastructure
Stalwarts with fintech, exchange and microstructure providers whose kit and implementation expertise support the maturation of EM investment.
| Data & Information
Professionals focused on the global provision of key and novel datasets on major emerging markets asset classes.
| Institutional Partners
Responsible leaders with local public entities, regional and IFIs, blended finance and allocating institutions who facilitate new EM and Frontier markets' growth.
| Corner Suite Champions
For global chief executives and C-levels that have demonstrated extra commitment in championing their firm's EM vision and growth.
2026 Selection Criteria
Our Big Questions
| Results.
Showcase your biggest projects from 2025, your role as a key player and the broader choreography that led to success. How did the firm's strategy in these efforts reflect its wider EM expertise, and what were the key end-results?
| Innovation.
How did your team spearhead EM client and project requirements with new products, tools, and creativity? How did the results make a difference, or prove portable and enable the firm's wider work in emerging economies?
| Building Capacity.
Tell us about wins for your team platform, talent and capabilities development that you are particularly proud of, and why they align with broader corporate strategy or flow or business.
| Impact.
Ultimately Talisman is interested in the difference made by professional partners, for global clients as well as for local participants and economies. Tell us how your 2025 leadership reflects a vision of progress in the wider aperture.
