Due Diligence
Protecting your reputation
We offer in-depth and insightful background investigations to assess and mitigate reputational risk to you and your organization. Not all business due diligence can be addressed through data review or screening. Simply put, growth opportunities often closely align with higher corruption risk. We delve into high-value relationships requiring a more in-depth look. Heightened risk circumstances can include customers or third parties in countries or business sectors with more potential for risk – such as those with complex or opaque ownership structures, sanctions risk, or involving politically exposed persons.
- Unethical or illegal labor practices in supply chains such as modern-day slavery pose unintended commercial risk and long-term reputational damage. Jurisdictions often require businesses capably demonstrate assessment and management of these risks - usually identified and mitigated through due diligence of third-party entities. Entities are legally or ethically compelled to question and vet vendors throughout the entire supply chain, not just the immediate or first level.
- The dynamic nature of sanction regimes requires knowledge of an entity’s potential exposure. Companies must comprehend all parties in a transaction, not just rely on mere information of whether a customer or supplier is listed. Especially since sanctioned entities and individuals work hard to insulate themselves and evade exposure. Businesses need specific details—like an entity’s distribution of ownership, voting, or other control; adding the burden to collect more third-party detail with those it does business with.
- Human rights, environmental concerns, as well as governance and social responsibility issues must be considered as consumer action, brand damage, or operational interruption resulting from third-party reputations can disrupt and cause more financial harm than regulatory consequences. Even if no such exposure occurs, failing to uncover and appropriately manage adverse associations poses significant reputational damage later unforgivable by boards and shareholders.
Our integrity solutions can include global analytical research, development and interviewing of witnesses or those with pertinent information; or the scrutinizing of key executives, core talent, or potential partnerships to ascertain integrity information vital to your decision making.
Due diligence and risk assessment investigations