Forensic investigations and integrated due diligence

Re provide forensics and fraud investigation services for a variety of controversial issues, including corporate fraud, money laundering, asset tracing and insolvency work. Our clients come from all walks of life and include individuals, privately and publicly-held companies, government entities such as municipalities, financial institutions and C-suite executives.

Clients benefit from our industry expertise and data and analytics capabilities when they engage us for investigative services. In addition, we have the knowledge and understanding of the laws, regulations and cultural nuances (including local practices and language capabilities) in jurisdictions throughout the world. Our services cover the investigation of allegations and assistance with remediation. We also advise organizations on proactive corruption risk mitigation.

How We Help

No matter the origin of the investigation, you benefit from our multifaceted, partnership approach that blends our investigative expertise and experience with specialized technology and data analytics capabilities. We help you identify suspicious activity, maintain regulatory compliance, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts, and harness enterprise data to protect business value.

In addition, our team conducts background investigations and integrated due diligence on entities and individuals related to prospective corporate transactions, third-party relationships, investments, corporate disputes and internal investigations. We assist our clients in identifying and addressing potential risks to help avoid costly mistakes, regulatory sanctions and reputational damage.

Our Investigations

are always conducted with the highest degree of confidentiality and discretion. Our services are scalable and can be tailored to meet specific client needs. We offer a full range of solutions, from standard background checks to more complex and customized due diligence.

We have extensive experience of helping clients to identify and mitigate the potential bribery and corruption risks presented by third parties – as well as other operational and reputational issues – through the gathering of independent information (‘Background Checking’, Integrity Due Diligence, or IDD). We work with our clients to design the most appropriate, efficient and cost effective solution, offering a flexible methodology. The various risk-focused tiers of our IDD solutions include the use of public record screening and monitoring tools, researcher-led information gathering, and in-depth consultation with human sources in the relevant industry.

Our IDD Report services are fully configurable, allowing customers to select content, depending on the level of required due diligence. For example, ‘Source of Wealth’ for all directors may be required as well as who the ‘Ultimate Beneficial Owner(s)’ is.

Benefits:

    • Mitigate and control risk
    • Protect brand reputation and shareholder value
    • Confidently manage your regulatory exposure
    • Our analysts cover over 240 countries in more than 40 languages
    • Bespoke EDD’s to suit your exact compliance and business needs
    • Attractive pricing with a fast turnaround service. Understanding and pinpointing risks associated with dealing with new clients, partners and suppliers operating in high risk jurisdictions and industries, is not only a required compliance necessity under AML regulations around the world, but it also makes good business sense.

We are able to build IDD’s that identify detailed personal and business relationships, beneficial ownership and financial risk intelligence information. Our Integrated Due Diligence reports are fully configurable to meet your exact needs and required level of due diligence. We equip our clients with the knowledge needed to analyze, identify and evaluate risks, allowing them to make well informed business decisions that minimize financial and reputational risks, resulting in significant time savings for our customer. Our products and services help clients across a broad range of industries to minimize costs, mitigate risks and protect brand reputation and shareholder value, whilst fulfilling their regulatory obligations.
We provide precise, detailed and confidential KYC enhanced due diligence (EDD) reports in over 190 countries and international jurisdictions.

Our EDD Reports

are tailor-made to each client’s specifications, thus fulfilling their legal and regulatory obligations.

Our IDD report are:
    • With fixed price
    • Strictly confidential
    • Tailor-made to the client’s requirements
    • Completed in an agreed time frame
    • Produced to ensure our client is not exposed to reputational, operational, legal or concentration risks
    • Precisely written
    • Rigorously researched and analyzed and not just simple database search results
    • Factual, impartial and objective
    • We are particularly adept at providing background information on high net worth individuals and/or associated corporate entities, and politically exposed persons (PEPs)

Our reporting

aims to:
    • Validate the address and other details provided by the subject of our report thus ensuring that fundamental KYC checks are carried out
    • Provide comprehensive information on the current and previous business activities of the subject of our report
    • Provide detailed intelligence on the status of the subject and their source of funds, enabling our client to evaluate the suitability of the person/company
    • Establish whether any links exist between the subject of our report and money laundering, organized crime, terrorism and/or corruption
Our Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reports provide objective detailed intelligence to enable you to make informed decisions about existing or prospective customers, suppliers and business partners.
We can provide you with reports on individuals and companies in variety of jurisdictions.
Our EDD reports contain comprehensive information about the subject of the report together with focusing on key risks such as:
    • Links to criminal activities
    • Source of Wealth/Funds
    • Identification of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), family members and close associates
    • Sanction risks
    • Personal enrichment as a result of corruption
    • Links to terrorist activities

It is worth noting however that many of our reports provide entirely positive findings about your existing or prospective customer, supplier and business partner – so you can successfully do business with them knowing that all relevant checks have been carried out by us.