Investigative depth for counsel, without adding headcount.
For investigations, anti-corruption, project finance and M&A teams. We establish who controls the other side, with sources your team can check.
Can you show who controls the local partner, and whether its commercial relationships hide a conflict?
A contract representation is a promise. Counsel needs findings that still stand when a regulator, a court or a client reads them.
Patterns we look for on a transaction.
The local agent’s owner is related to an official.
A new company, a shared address and a shareholder with the same family name as the person who signs the permits.
The fee is out of line with the work.
An 8% success fee for an introduction nobody in the deal team can describe.
The JV partner’s owner sits behind a trust.
The registered shareholder is a nominee. The trust deed names someone else.
Both sides share a director.
Board records place the same person on the buyer’s supplier and the seller’s holding company.
From the first question to the file.
Before signing
Counterparties, agents and JV partners on the transaction.
On a live matter
Research capacity for an investigation, sized to the deadline.
In a dispute
Related parties, asset links and control behind the other side.
For the record
Source-backed reports written to be read by people outside the deal team.
Sized to the risk and the deadline.
Start with one counterparty or a full portfolio. Every engagement is confidential.
- Enhanced due diligenceAGENTS, PARTNERS, TARGETS
- Transaction supportPRE-SIGNING AND PRE-CLOSING
- External research capacityLIVE INVESTIGATIONS
- Corporate network analysisGROUPS, TRUSTS AND NOMINEES