Our Services

Due Diligence

We carry out background checks on our clients’ current or existing counterparties, such as acquisition targets, business partners or candidates for senior appointments. This helps clients better understand the targets and assess regulatory, reputational and commercial risks associated with them. These may include indications of involvement in fraud, corruption, political exposure, sanctions violations, money laundering and other financial crime; illegal or unethical business practices more broadly; as well as concerns over a subject’s commercial credibility, standing, financial wherewithal or asset position.

Strategic intelligence

We provide intelligence and analysis about existing or new markets and market actors to help clients develop appropriate commercial and risk mitigation strategies. We identify and evaluate business opportunities and commercial partners; gather intelligence to support clients in hostile takeover situations; analyse the competitive landscape, market structures, dynamics and risks; identify likely risk areas, such as specific sectors or government institutions; and assess the positions and likely responses of non-corporate actors (such as national and local governmental authorities, labour unions, NGOs and other local stakeholders) to a client’s potential actions.

Disputes and Investigations Support

We support companies and their advisors with intelligence gathering and analysis in support of commercial disputes. We also help in-house investigators and legal advisers to gather information when they are investigating suspected fraud, corruption, money laundering or other wrongdoing. Such support could encompass mapping of corporate structures, commercial relationships, asset tracing, site visits, witness tracing and similar.

Consultancy

We draw on our expertise in due diligence and investigations to provide compliance consultancy support. This includes due diligence programme design, training and other anti-money laundering and anti-corruption compliance advisory services. Clients for such services include law firms, multinational corporations and financial institutions.