During Disputes in a Relationship
Make Informed Decisions
Through Accurate Due Diligence
All About Opponents During Disputes in a Relationship
Opponent Research in Legal Proceedings
For over 5 years, AF1Group has helped during disputes in a relationship with discovering admissible evidence to help litigators prevail in court. A highly effective sequence of steps:
- Figuring out who was engaged in relevant events
- Identifying who among them has scattered over the intervening years
- Locating them
- Knocking on their doors for information Indeed, our range of tactics is quite narrowly focused.
Experts in Litigation-related Investigations
We constantly work with law firms in AML (Anti Money Laundering) and other practice areas. That gave AF1 Protective Agency more experience on how we understand situations and learn from it. Our initial steps in an assignment are to investigate an opponent, sometimes before or after litigation proceedings. We review not only for relevant vulnerabilities but also behavior patterns in circles of common circle, such as how the pattern of previous disputes. And we routinely take assignments to prove an opponent's historic "footprint" in a particular area.
Information that Stands up to Cross-Examination
As litigation proceeds during disputes in a relationship, and opposing facts and expert witnesses’ surface, we gather cross-examination material on them. We have unique expertise in learning litigation-relevant information from an opponent’s former employees. Our secret weapon? We approach people because litigation is often won by bringing forward third-party witnesses. When Disputes in a Relationship arise, we think of ourselves as professional interviewers. We collaborate with clients, many of whom are investigators.
Asset Tracing
Asset Tracing Investigations Worldwide
We specialize in asset tracing worldwide. AF1 DD Specialist has helped creditors enforce judgments in several cases over the past 5 years. Prior to obtained court judgment, we can clearly show how deep an adversary's pockets are to help you make sound business decisions Prior to starting a commercial relationship, we can help you prove, rather than rely on, other parties' representations about their financial health. We analyze the highly convertible assets – not only cash but transit of commodities, properties, inventories, and accounts receivable.
Expertise in Sovereign Litigations
We have substantial experience in sovereign litigations and are mindful of the high suggestive requirements for enforcement against assets of sovereigns alter egos. Corporate veil-piercing is usually front and center in our sovereign enforcement cases. During disputes in a relationship, our asset-tracing cases are invariably multi-layered, frequently cross-border, and often in offshore jurisdictions.
Evidence Gathering in Various Practice Areas
Such as Intellectual Property Innovation driven by Intellectual property, business, and economic growth. Whether theft, infringement, or human error, damage to Intellectual property can threaten a company's survival. The AF1 Due Diligence Specialist Intellectual Property Team manages all I.P. matters, including trademark use, counterfeiting, grey market trading, patent, copyright, design rights issues, domain names, and online infringements. AF1 DD Specialist Intellectual Property investigators are drawn from various backgrounds, including law, the manufacturing industry, luxury goods, I.T., FinTech, and information science.
Intellectual Property Investigations: Protecting Your Brand
Trademark use
We investigate the use of trademarks registered worldwide, by databases explorations, on the ground site visits, discretely interviewing people, and making test purchases. The evidence showing how a mark is used within a relevant period is provided to our clients, and they may challenge its validity. Our services We provide this service on a fixed-fee basis within an agreed timescale.
Anonymous Acquisitions and Proxy Services
Trademarks or I.P. Third-party rights are frequently of commercial interest to our clients. In such cases, we determine the worth of the rights to the owner. If necessary, we can negotiate the purchase of those rights on our client's behalf. to achieve the most cost-effective outcome while preserving our client's anonymity. We also assist clients in conducting legal or administrative proceedings to avoid disclosing their identity and commercial interests to opposing parties.
Counterfeiting
Our investigations into counterfeiting can range from fashion designs through fast-moving consumer goods and other branded merchandise in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Most Investigations during disputes in a relationship are frequently complex, involving test purchases of items via front companies, followed by surveillance and liaison with appropriate authorities. to disrupt and, where possible, eliminate organized counterfeiting rings.
Online Infringements
We are asked to identify and investigate the operators of pirated websites, pages from social media, and spoofing/phishing email campaigns because fraudsters use Our clients' brands are being used to lend legitimacy to their scam. To find those responsible, we employ a variety of methods, including searching in the deep web, Cyber technological and forensic techniques, test purchasing, and covert approaches. Domain names pose a threat to intellectual property investigations.
Patents
During disputes in a relationship, we frequently help clients by investigating patent infringements and gathering evidence to support or defend revocation actions. We conduct technical research with investigators who have the necessary expertise. We also track down witnesses with relevant historical knowledge.
Common Law Searches
Clients often ask us to determine whether any unregistered rights might prevent them from adopting a design for a new product or Intellectual Property – We have a network of associates around the world. In addition to law firms and patent and trademark attorneys, AF1 DD Specialist is a service provider to some of the world's famous household brand-products companies.
Due Diligence Specialist Agency Service
DD specialist Team I.P. conducts research to determine the existence of such rights in relevant jurisdictions and the level of risk they may pose to a new brand. AF1 DD Specialist Agency I.P. help clients in identifying the registrants of domain names and establishing their true interests.
Prior Art Research
We help clients defend claims of the patent, copyright, and design right infringement by identifying articles on the market in relevant jurisdictions before the priority date of the opponent's rights. The work during disputes in a relationship requires exacting research using specialist databases, reviewing dated trade literature in libraries, and interviewing industry experts.
Trade Secrets
We are often assigned to investigate the apparent theft of trade secrets by clients' departed employees or other insiders. For example, a Travel company hired us after learning that a departing employee had emailed some of its trade secrets to a third party in Latin America just before resigning to join a competitor. We found that the competitor employed the employee and that it was a subsidiary of a Latam multinational with deep pockets for the lawsuit that our client subsequently brought.
Counterfeit and Gray Market Trading
We have traced all sorts of counterfeit and grey market products to their sources, invariably across borders, for rights holders in industries as diverse as apparel, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, and machine parts.