How is this different from a screening report?

A screening report tells you what a database already knows. Investigative due diligence establishes what is true — including where the record is silent, incomplete or deliberately constructed to mislead.

Do you deliver findings even when they are inconvenient?

Yes. The report supports the decision either way. We do not shape findings toward the outcome a deal team prefers.

Can the work support litigation or regulatory action?

Yes. Workpapers are maintained with chain-of-custody awareness and can be packaged for counsel, prosecutors or regulators.

Brief / CIG-SVC-03

Investigative due diligence and financial auditing

When a decision is large, irreversible or reputationally exposed, database-only checks are insufficient. Our investigative due diligence is exactly that — investigative. Source of wealth is verified, financial records are audited against reality, adverse media is triangulated, and open leads are pursued until they close.

This is our anchor discipline. We combine cutting-edge data infrastructure and analytics with mandatory human review — because the finding that matters is almost never the one a query returns first. Every automated signal is adjudicated by an analyst, and every analyst is expected to think laterally about where the evidence would be if someone did not want it found.

§ 01Method

DOMAIN / IDD

REVIEW / HUMAN-ADJUDICATED

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Data and analytics layer
Corporate registries across more than 180 jurisdictions, litigation and insolvency dockets, land and vessel registries, procurement and lobbying records, customs and trade data, sanctions and PEP corpora, breach and leak archives, on-chain data and multilingual media are ingested and cross-linked. Entity resolution, name transliteration and network analysis surface relationships that no single database holds.
02
Mandatory human adjudication
No machine output leaves the building unreviewed. Analysts grade every hit as confirmed, corroborated, contested or unverified, discard the false positives that scoring models keep, and escalate the weak signal that a model would have ranked last. Language, culture and jurisdictional context are applied by people who work in those environments.
03
Out-of-the-box lead development
When the record is thin, we work the negative space: shared telephone numbers and registered agents, historic domain and infrastructure ownership, corporate filings withdrawn before publication, litigation exhibits, regulatory correspondence, procurement losers, former employees, local-language press and — where lawful and appropriate — discreet human source inquiry.
04
Forensic financial auditing
Financial statements are tested rather than accepted. We reconstruct revenue against observable activity, examine related-party flows, circular financing, round-tripping and channel stuffing, reconcile declared wealth against verifiable acquisition history, and trace funds across accounts, entities, jurisdictions and — where relevant — chains. Anomalies are quantified, not just noted.
05
Evidentiary discipline
Every assertion carries a source, a date and a confidence level. We distinguish fact from inference in writing, state what we could not establish, and package findings so that counsel, a board, an investment committee or a regulator can rely on them.

// Scope of work

01Investigative due diligence for investments, acquisitions and partnerships
02Forensic financial auditing and reconstruction of accounts
03Review of agents, consultants, vendors, suppliers, legal advisors and brokers
04Reputational due diligence ahead of an investment or relationship
05Investigative support for corporate control contests
06Pre-appointment investigations and background checks of executives, board members and senior management
07Self-due diligence to prepare individuals and entities for public or private offering scrutiny
08Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
09Investor, LP and counterparty diligence for funds and family offices
10M&A and pre-transaction target diligence
11Source of wealth and source of funds verification
12PEP, sanctions and adverse media analysis

// Deliverables

D01Investigative due diligence report with confidence-graded findings
D02Forensic financial audit and reconstruction workpapers
D03Source of wealth / source of funds verification memorandum
D04Ownership, control and related-party network map
D05PEP, sanctions and adverse media analysis with triangulated sourcing
D06Executive and board pre-appointment investigation file
D07Red-flag register with materiality assessment and recommended conditions

§ 02When to engage

// Trigger

A counterparty whose declared wealth outpaces any verifiable business history

// Trigger

Financials that reconcile internally but not against observable operations

// Trigger

Introduced deal flow via an agent, consultant or broker of unknown standing

// Trigger

Target operating in a jurisdiction where registry data is thin or unreliable

// Trigger

Board or executive appointment with reputational exposure

// Trigger

Preparing for the scrutiny that accompanies a public or private offering

// Outcome

"A written record that supports the decision either way — and holds up under scrutiny."

§ 03Questions

How is this different from a screening report?: A screening report tells you what a database already knows. Investigative due diligence establishes what is true — including where the record is silent, incomplete or deliberately constructed to mislead.
Do you deliver findings even when they are inconvenient?: Yes. The report supports the decision either way. We do not shape findings toward the outcome a deal team prefers.
Can the work support litigation or regulatory action?: Yes. Workpapers are maintained with chain-of-custody awareness and can be packaged for counsel, prosecutors or regulators.