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Integrity Due Diligence

Certainty for business growth - applying true diligence, not just due diligence

Helping clients make informed decisions
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We conduct integrity due diligence for clients across many different sectors, helping to mitigate risks from new commercial relationships and to inform their strategic decision-making.

Clients turn to us when they need independent investigation and thorough analysis of the reputational and regulatory risks associated with their business partners.

We provide clients with the information they need to make key commercial decisions. Our in-house specialists have expert backgrounds, and an excellent working knowledge of FCPA compliance, UK Bribery Act compliance and other national counter-bribery legislation. Endorsed with top rankings in Chambers Global-wide Business Intelligence & Investigations: Pre-Transactional Advisory Guide 2023.

BENEFITS

Clients who partner with us benefit from our:

  • Outstanding expertise – We have one of the largest, most experienced and best-trained integrity due diligence teams in the world.
  • Global reach – Our multi-lingual teams have conducted assignments on more than 10,000 subjects in over 150 countries, and we’re committed to maintaining and constantly evolving our global network.
  • Flexible approach – Our service is flexible and can apply different levels of scrutiny to the subjects of our assignments, according to client needs and the nature of the project.
They are my go-to firm for complex and sophisticated matters, and are generally recognized as the best across the legal and compliance bar.
- Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2024, Investigative Due Diligence (Global)
The team have strong expertise and reliable in-market networks allowing for a strong initial read on many situations followed up by specific and in-depth analysis.
- Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2024, Investigative Due Diligence (Global)
Risk Advisory understands how political dynamics and risks have changed in particular countries. It is so much more than just mining some databases for information- it's understanding the landscape extremely well and how everything fits together so you really get that comprehensive feedback.
- Attorney at a Washington DC law firm
We give Risk Advisory our most complicated stuff, our most serious allegations, the stuff that’s going to take the hardest to get to the bottom of. Then they’re pretty much always engaged.
- Head of compliance at multinational biopharma company

    Key features of our integrity due diligence service include:

    • In-depth due diligence on new commercial relationships, JV partners, acquisition targets, third party suppliers, agents and distributors
    • M&A focussed vicarious and successor liability due diligence in the context of FCPA, UK Bribery Act compliance and other national counter-bribery legislation
    • Compliance with the OFAC and other sanction controls
    • Pre-IPO due diligence
    • Pre-transactional equity investments or loans due diligence
    • Anti money laundering and source of wealth enquiries
    • Training for in-house due diligence staff
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    Anti-corruption due diligence

    Our client was in negotiations to acquire a rival business with operations in Central and South America. The client was particularly concerned about successor liability due to the target’s reliance on third-party sales agents. 

    We conducted thorough due diligence on around 50 agents, assessing their backgrounds, sales methods, and any potential involvement in bribery or political manipulation. We discovered that 10 agents used high-level political connections, with credible bribery claims against four. Our findings influenced our client’s compliance planning and shaped the commercial negotiations. 

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    Source of wealth investigation

    Our client, a major multinational investment bank, sought to understand the source of wealth and financing mechanisms of an international development charity. They were concerned about potential financial crime vulnerabilities and political connections that could pose reputational risks.

    To investigate, we leveraged our global network of contacts to examine the charity’s financial network. We inquired about funding sources, financial controls, and monitoring processes, focusing on potential vulnerabilities. We also looked into any involvement with controversial politicians or political influence. While we identified some issues with how donations were collected, we found that the charity had strong safeguards against financial crime and generally remained politically neutral, focusing on supporting oppressed communities.

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