Due Diligence Before Entering a Relationship
Make Informed Decisions
Through Accurate Due Diligence
Background Checking
Before Hires and Appointments
By doing due diligence before entering a relationship, including before appointments and hires, we create the background checks you require.
We have screened candidates for high-profile C-level and board appointments during the previous five years.
We use state-of-the-art technologies to investigate the backgrounds of entry-level and mid-level personnel.
Standard Background Checks
Clients take on varying levels of risk when they commit to new hires. Clients need due diligence beyond the human resources process because there are diverse levels of risk. We provide standard packages for hiring levels. Our clients represent a wide range of investors, including private equity and venture capital firms, pension funds, investment banks, and their respective legal advisors.
A.I. Technology and Investigation Analysis
Using a mix of A.I. technology and expert analysis while doing due diligence before entering a relationship, we verify the professed qualifications of candidates and uncover inconsistencies, omissions, and red flags that may hide in their backgrounds. Clients can access our secure, proprietary online portal to make requests, monitor progress, and receive results. Led by investigative experts, we operate in seven jurisdictions across five continents and have more than nine language fluencies in-house.
Due Diligence Before Transactions
We help you invest in deals anywhere in the world.
Background Checks of Persons and Businesses
By doing due diligence before entering a relationship in events such as mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and financings, we check the backgrounds and reputation of individuals and entities.
We locally verify the professed qualifications and track records of people you are considering a deal with and uncover inconsistencies and controversies they may not have disclosed. And we scrutinize entities as thoroughly as people, including ultimate beneficial ownership, offshore, and on.
Worldwide Investigative Diligence
We offer a worldwide service in investigative diligence. Our staff of more than twenty-five cross-border experts works out of seven jurisdictions on five continents. They have conducted background checks in more than seven jurisdictions. We have decades of experience navigating repositories of obscure records in various locations. We maintain “boots on the ground” to inquire with trusted sources locally when needed.
Custom Background Checks
We go well beyond "checking the box" by addressing the actual risks you face as you consider investing your capital and reputation. We offer standard packages and custom-built background checks from our menu of selected choices. Ask our team for consultation. Our clients represent a wide range of investors, including private equity and venture capital firms, pension funds, investment banks, and their respective legal advisors.
Due Diligence Before Engaging Third Parties
Third-Party Due Diligence: Before Engaging Third Parties
We are an international investigative company with more than two decades of experience in cross-border corruption investigations and background checking. Our reports uncover government ties, corruption, and other wrongdoing and check the accuracy of the third party’s disclosures. We do not just produce data; we also provide local insight. We provide three screening levels to offer a neutral result in any relationship.
Cross-border Third-Party Investigations
Our experience gives us comprehensive knowledge of all the several ways companies and individuals can pose integrity risks. And we are experts at uncovering those risks – searching online and in databases, gathering local records, and inquiring with trusted sources – in every corner of the world.
By doing due diligence before entering a relationship, our investigations vet representatives, agents, distributors, suppliers, and other third parties so our clients can base business decisions on true and independent information.
Due Diligence Before Social Responsibility Controversies
To Ourselves
When confronted on the witness stand, we provide answers to every aspect of investigative steps — in a boardroom or a courtroom. That is our responsibility. For five years, we have nurtured a culture that attracts and supports intelligent, curious, and savvy experts in doing due diligence before entering a relationship.
To Our team
Our Corporate Social Responsibility commitment naturally includes a duty to our employees. We are committed to our inclusive and diverse group of investigators who enjoy working on the highest-level and most challenging background checks, disputes, and internal investigations.
To Our Clients
Besides great investigative work and no-surprise billing, our duty to clients is to share our expertise whenever possible. We train law firms on best practices for getting the most from witnesses. We have also conducted training sessions on tracing dirty money for our professional investigators, and a variety of others.
To the Truth
We recognize that the reputations of individuals and companies may depend on the facts we gather, and we have a duty of accuracy. Our clients represent a wide range of investors, including private equity and venture capital firms, pension funds, investment banks, and their respective legal advisors.
To the Wider Public
Our duty to the broader public includes performing pro bono investigations every day. For example, over the past 3 years, we have devoted significant investigative resources to the human trafficking organizations for Justice and Accountability, on whose board Jacques Houssou has served.
Social Responsibility
By doing due diligence before entering a relationship we help our clients meet global social responsibility standards; we endeavor to adhere to those standards ourselves. Corporations deserve social-responsibility partners who are themselves responsible.