Intelligence

Corporate Intelligence (CI) helps to identify potential, mainly due to association.

Corporate Intelligence seeks to assist clients in making informed decisions by identifying hidden factors or red flags that may negatively impact their businesses.  It also highlights issues of concern that may cause potential reputational or financial damage to a company, its directors, and its shareholders. CI helps identify local market political or regulatory factors in high-risk or unfamiliar areas.

Identifying and minimizing risk through a proper CI approach results in making critical decisions with confidence. Specialized skills in the areas of due diligence and investigation, as well as the use of advanced technology, help to gain deeper insights and navigate successful outcomes.

Integrity Due Diligence & Transactions Intelligence

Identifying potential corruption risk, conducting third-party and pre-M&A due diligence, conducting internal and FCPA investigations, and assessing due diligence programs, among other services.

Punctually hiring specialized labor and bringing savings can bring an “out of the box” view.

Pay-per-expertise according to your specific demands.

Various approaches can be taken, from full service to assisting with projects involving multiple consultants and external experts providing complete services on CI to assisting projects involving multiple consultants and external experts.

• Preparation of Full Enhanced Due Diligence Reports
• Deals and transaction intelligence support.
• Pre- and post-investment reputational due diligence;
• Third-party reputational due diligence;
• Supply chain/operational risk intelligence;
• Environmental, Social & Governance (“ESG”) and Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) diligences;
• Identification of ultimate beneficial ownership;
• Geopolitical and strategic threat intelligence;
• Market, industry, and competitive analysis.

Regarding the last two topics, the Market Entry intelligence approach could also provide an overview regarding regulatory, financial, taxation, and commercial issues to help identify opportunities and manage risk. An understanding of the operating environment of the prospect market, its competitors, suppliers, substitutes, and the power of all players identified.

All solutions can be entirely tailored.

CI investigations are recommended for third parties with the most impact on your business, such as C-level targets/candidates, significant vendors, or high-risk clients.

Litigation Support & Conflict of Interests

Searching for conflicts of interest and undisclosed business affiliations or researching whether parties live beyond their means. Through investigative means, it also supports tracking back the ownership of assets to front companies and their facilitators. Assisting your litigation team with tailored CI solutions allows it to investigate opposing parties and their experts, help find facts relevant to claims and defenses, and identify and locate witnesses.

• Targeted open-source research;
• Network and link analysis to connect related parties;
• Social media/sentiment analysis capabilities;
• Access to deep and dark web sources;
• Discreet human source inquiries; 
• Business reference checks; 
• Site visits.

The objective is to help clients to transform unpredictable events into opportunities for resilience and long-term advantage.

AML/CFT + Sanction Trade

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Human Resources Investigations and Pre-employment screening

Objective insights into an otherwise potentially complex situation in your organization in cases of discrimination, mobbing, retaliation, or harassment. Acting promptly in case of Human Resources incidents will help your organization to avoid further escalation of issues and huge losses.

Extensive experience in setting up HR investigations, conducting interviews, securing evidence, and providing legal assistance.

Human rights, forced labor, and trafficking insights are also provided.

Pre-employment screening to prevent and detect the risk of insider threats, fraud, or embezzlement early.

The main objective of pre-employment screening is to ensure a prospective candidate fits your organization and to protect it by knowing with whom you’re about to entrust your databases or know-how before you do it.

Social Media Intelligence

With the rise of social media, it has found its way into almost every aspect of daily life. As a result, social media research and analytical tools to provide supplemental information beyond traditional public records searches are mandatory nowadays.

Social media analytics helps to identify and analyze connections between targets and their facilitators, such as middlemen, associates, and proxies, in addition to public comments posted on various mainstream and regional social media platforms. 

Critical insights into social media content that has a potential impact on your organization.