Global
Investigations
Internal
Investigations
We have deep expertise in investigating the full range of workplace misconduct issues including fraud, corruption and IP theft. We support our clients in reaching fair and evidence-based outcomes.
Dispute
Support
We assist our clients and their counsel in formulating legal strategy, obtaining documentary evidence and filling hard-to-access information gaps that are critical to commercial disputes.
Asset
Tracing
We leverage our global intelligence and investigative tools to solve complex cross-border asset traces, establishing asset positions of parties in disputes and providing recoverability assessments.
Our Clients
- Law Firms
- Internal Counsel
- Compliance Teams
- C-suite
- Corporate Boards
Typical
Assignments
Internal
Investigations
- Whistleblowing allegations
- Internal fraud
- Corruption
- IP theft
- Supply chain investigations
- Workplace misconduct
- Money laundering
Dispute
Support
- Intelligence on counterparties
- Evidence gathering
- Surveillance and site visits
- Mapping ownership structures
- Forensic reviews
- Digital forensics
- Expert identification
Asset
Tracing
- Offshore ownership identification
- UBO identification
- Undeclared corporate structures
- Proxy ownership
- Asset profiling
- Recoverability assessment
- Mapping ownership structures
Global Platform
Recent Global Investigations case studies:
North America
- Investigation into allegations of IP theft by a US-based Chinese employee of a US multi-national company
- Global asset trace investigation on behalf of a US law firm, targeting offshore assets of the JV partner of the ultimate client
Latin America
- Investigation into the events leading up to the dismissal of a senior executive from a Panamanian telecoms company
- Investigation for a private bank into whether a Venezuelan oil company was in breach of US sanctions
Europe
- Investigation into the asset position of an industrial family for a European banking client
- Investigation into an infrastructure operator in Ireland for a European investor
- Forensic investigation into suspected fraud at the local JV partner of a metals refining company
- Asset tracing to identify the undeclared overseas assets of a debtor in breach of client’s loan obligations
- Investigation to identify any unencumbered assets and evidence of wrong-doing by a multi-national conglomerate which had defaulted on its debts.
- Investigation to determine whether a sanctioned Russian businessman was in fact the ultimate beneficial owner of a sports and media group
- Global asset trace against the chairman of a national bank alleged to have siphoned off nearly $3.5 billion
Africa
- Investigation into supply chain integrity for a Canadian corporate
- Litigation support related to potential corruption allegations for a Fortune 500 corporate
- Digital forensic review of corporate data holdings to determine when and how employee fraud had occurred within a pan-Africa conglomerate
MENA
- Ultimate beneficial ownership investigation into the shareholder of a Syrian telecommunications company
- Strategic guidance on the negotiations to free a ship that was lodged in the Suez Canal, on behalf of a global law firm
APAC
- A complex investigation into alleged fraud in the construction sector
- Investigation into corruption allegations involving a listed industrial company
- Targeted forensic accounting review to establish over-stating of accounts receivables within a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation
- Investigation to support an international manufacturing conglomerate that suspected a cabal of former employees in their China factory of IP theft