Due Diligence
Protecting your reputation
Consumer action, brand damage, or operational interruption resulting from third party calamities can disrupt and cause more financial harm than regulatory consequences. Even no exposure occurs, failing to uncover and appropriately manage adverse associations poses significant reputational damage later unforgivable by boards and shareholders.
Businesses are legally and ethically compelled to vet vendors throughout the entire supply chain, not just the immediate level. Simple data review or screening will not address growth opportunities that often align closely with greater corruption risk. In today’s fraught business environment, heightened risk includes customers or third parties in places or sectors with more risk potential – like opaque ownership structures, sanction risk, or politically exposed persons.
- Issues of human rights, environmental concerns, and governance and social responsibility often go hand-in-hand with unethical or illegal labor practices such as modern-day slavery. They pose unintended risk and reputational damage in supply chains. Jurisdictions often require businesses capably assess and manage these risks - usually identified and mitigated through due diligence of third-party entities.
- The dynamic nature of sanction regimes requires knowledge of potential exposure. Companies must comprehend all parties in a transaction, not just rely on mere information about a customer or supplier. Especially since sanctioned entities and individuals work hard to insulate themselves and evade exposure. Businesses need specific details—like ownership distribution, voting, or other control; burdening firms to meticulously understand third-parties it does business with.
We offer in-depth and insightful due diligence to assess and mitigate reputational risk to you and your organization. We thoroughly delve into high-value relationships requiring a more in-depth look. Our integrity solutions can include global analytical research, development and interviewing of witnesses or those with pertinent information; or scrutinizing key executives, core talent, or potential partnerships to ascertain integrity information vital to your decision making.
Due diligence and risk assessment investigations