Corporate Intelligence & Investigations Group

We offer a highly localized, legally obtained, ground-truth intelligence capability that exceeds standard commercial channels. Whether vetting third-party intermediaries or conducting Know Your Customer due diligence, we deliver unfiltered, source-attributed information to help you avoid violations, legal liability, reputational damage, and fiscal loss.

This is the Anthrophilia principle applied to investigations: every company, counterparty, and risk is ultimately a human system. Reading the people — their incentives, loyalties, and pressures — is what turns raw information into decision-grade intelligence.

Privy Consul operates as a boutique intelligence consultancy providing high quality business intelligence to the financial, legal and corporate sector. Beyond business intelligence, we conduct background checks, due diligence enquiries, risk assessments and security planning — working with clients to identify the facts quickly and discreetly, ensuring findings are admissible, defensible and supported by hard evidence.

Financial Forensics & Asset Tracing

• Fund flow analysis and financial forensics
• Asset tracing (global) — locate and assess hidden or misappropriated assets
• Identifying shell companies and offshore vehicles
• Profiling of individuals and beneficial owners
• Internal investigations

The Operating Environment

Power attracts scrutiny. Operations of consequence become targets. Assets invite attention from those positioned to exploit them. The vulnerability is not in what you do—it's in what you don't see. Most organizations assume their intelligence apparatus reaches far enough, monitors widely enough, understands deeply enough. It doesn't. Threats arrive through channels conventional surveillance misses. They move through networks your existing protocols were never built to penetrate.

Decisions involving significant business moves, large-scale acquisitions, new partnerships, and expanding operations into new, and foreign, countries inevitably involve trade-offs between risks and benefits. Privy Consul’s Deep-Level Due Diligence service supports clients’ risk management and helps minimize such business risks by providing comprehensive assessments of business targets. A distinct tool to financial and legal due diligence, Privy Consul’s Deep-Level Due Diligence delves into the people behind the target company; their motives and interests, past behavior in other roles, and any other information that could reveal behavior contrary to the strategy of Privy Consul’s clients.

Our unique Deep-Level Due Diligence methodology produces a broad and detailed overview of the designated target, taking into account a multitude of financial, marketing, legal, and technical aspects.

Privy Consul specializes in gathering and analysing intelligence that enables our clients to better understand their business environment, enhance their ability to identify business risks and opportunities, and leverage their competitive edge. Our competitive intelligence service is based on cutting-edge methodology that includes high-end information gathering and research capabilities, bolstered by solid technical and legal acuity.

In the rapidly changing environment of today’s business arena, exclusive knowledge constitutes a significant business advantage and a game-changing tool. The ability to obtain timely, relevant information, and to draw the correct conclusions from its analysis, is essential for different aspects of business development and performance, such as keeping track with main competitors, performing M&A’s and big investments or forming strategic partnerships. Obtaining this edge requires superior intelligence skills and a well thought of, and carefully executed, research plan.