Due Diligence Investigations

Our Process

Based on your introduction, we investigate your relations — companies, organizations, or individuals — economically, financially, legally, fiscally, and ethically. The scope is set by your objective: insight into financial position surfaces turnover, business connections, subsidiaries, and stakeholders; reputation assessment maps staff, business relations, and stakeholder networks.

Where most firms stop at registries and databases, we apply human terrain analysis: the people around a subject — former colleagues, counterparties, communities — reveal what filings never record. Documents tell you what happened. People tell you why.

Findings are delivered as a written report with sourcing annexes and a direct briefing with the lead investigator, on a timeline agreed at scoping.

What We Uncover

Our due diligence process surfaces possible fraud, tax evasion, corruption, environmental issues, or any other unethical motives. A one-time or recurring due diligence report provides clear insight into:

• General history and management structure
• Current and historical financial issues
• Overview of assets
• Pending legal claims or liabilities (fraud, litigation, blacklists, extortion, sanctions)
• Pending or historical criminal issues
• Public reputation and media history
• Network of clients, suppliers, and stakeholders
• Reputation according to current and former employees
• Environmental and human rights issues

Relations We Investigate

• Clients and customers
• Suppliers and vendors
• Investors and financial partners
• Agents and intermediaries
• Sub-contractors and service providers
• Governmental organizations
• NGOs and nonprofit entities
• Candidate employees

A due diligence report costs a fraction of the deal it protects. Substantiate the decision before you sign — not after the damage is done.

Specialist Diligence Services

Privy Consul provides robust, multi-layered due diligence services for law firms, financial institutions and private clients. We transform raw intelligence into clear, concise reports that expose risk and clarify opportunity. Services include:

• Pre-transaction and investment due diligence
• Reputation and compliance background checks
• Source-led investigative research
• Sanctions and watchlist screening
• Cryptocurrency due diligence

Before You Ask

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.