Due diligence

Did you ever wonder who you are actually doing business with? If so, it is time you organised a due diligence investigation. To calculate the risks in business, you first need reliable information. A small investment in advance to gather the relevant information can save you a lot of anguish. Using our expertise as investigators in a wide range of fields, we conduct due diligence investigations that focus on the risks you are running in a business, legal and financial sense, and on the damage to your image.
 
In a basic investigation, we perform a limited search operation using a number of public sources. Then we provide you with a concise report, which includes a description of the investigated party.
 
In a standard investigation, besides the general sources we also look for specific sources of information. We contact any relevant parties that can provide us with additional information. If the company in question has branches abroad, we can use our worldwide network of contacts in the area of private investigation to obtain our information, thanks to the position of our Managing Director/main shareholder Gerd Hoffmann as a Board Member of a prominent international professional association.
 
A detailed investigation consists of two phases. We start with a standard investigation. We may have to use discrete surveillance on location to ascertain the physical circumstances of a company or location. Then, in consultation with you, we contact the party being investigated as part of an additional investigation. This means that we hold interviews with key officials and, depending on what we are investigating, we conduct a forensic financial accounting investigation. Here the emphasis is on taking stock of and analysing the risks of fraud and other irregularities.