Capabilities
Risk Management
Too often, risk is treated as theoretical—until it materializes, causes harm, and results in costly fallout. Our risk management services help clients anticipate threats, respond decisively, and integrate risk awareness into day-to-day decision making to protect people, assets, and reputation.
How We Help:
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We deliver incisive, cost-efficient due diligence services that surface material risks, validate key claims, and equip clients to make confident, context-aware decisions before committing.
Standard assignments include:
Investments and acquisitions – Vetting targets for hidden risk and alignment.
Executive and board appointments – Reviewing backgrounds to prevent reputational or governance issues.
Employment hires – Deep background checks for integrity and undisclosed risks.
Vendor and third-party relationships – Evaluating partners for financial, operational, and reputational risk.
Philanthropic engagements and donations – Verifying legitimacy and reputation of recipients and donors.
Joint ventures and strategic partnerships – Assessing counterparties for long-term risk and compatibility.
Source of wealth and source of funds – Confirming legitimacy of funds for compliance and risk assurance.
Self-due diligence –Reviewing your profile to identify external-facing vulnerabilities.
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Our tailored risk assessments deliver actionable insights, prioritized remediation strategies, and expert-supported implementation to strengthen defenses and resilience.
Standard assignments include:
Cyber risk assessments– Identifying technical gaps and evaluating cybersecurity controls and readiness.
Safety and physical security reviews – Assessing facilities for physical vulnerabilities and protective program adequacy.
Threat assessments – Analyzing risks across digital and physical threat environments.
Reputation reviews– Identifying reputational risks from records, affiliations, or online presence.
Vendor and third-party assessments – Reviewing vendor cyber, financial, legal, and reputational risks.
Fraud, waste, and abuse assessments – Detecting control failures that enable fraud or misconduct.
Travel risk reviews – Evaluating travel routines for personal safety and risk exposure.
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Our remediation services address vulnerabilities—whether previously identified or uncovered through our own assessments—with targeted, practical solutions. We deliver end-to-end support, managing remediation projects and coordinating specialized vendors to close gaps efficiently and effectively.
Hardening residences and facilities – Closing physical security gaps and upgrading defenses.
Remediating cyber vulnerabilities – Patching weaknesses and enhancing cybersecurity infrastructure.
Revamping physical security programs – Rebuilding protocols, controls, and emergency readiness.
Reinforcing travel security frameworks – Modernizing plans, providers, and real-time response measures.
Managing sensitive personnel transitions – Executing secure departures and onboarding trusted replacements.
Overhauling fraud risk programs – Fixing control failures and strengthening detection and prevention.
Mitigating vendor risk – Correcting oversight gaps and strengthening third-party risk controls.
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We provide discreet, in-depth vetting of influencers, brand ambassadors, spokespersons, and strategic partners to identify reputational, behavioral, and affiliation risks that automated tools miss, helping clients avoid costly missteps and ensuring alignment with brand, legal, and ethical standards.
Standard assignments include:
Influencer and ambassador screening – Evaluating reputational risk before formal engagement.
Spokesperson and partner vetting – Ensuring alignment with brand and standards.
Social media and online history review – Flagging problematic or off-brand digital activity.
Affiliation and background checks – Identifying hidden ties or past controversies.
Ongoing monitoring – Tracking and reporting emerging risks throughout the engagement lifecycle.
Strategic Intelligence
We provide strategic intelligence that delivers decision-critical insight to investors, executives, board members, and family offices, supporting immediate actions as well as long-term positioning through discreet, context-specific information gathering.
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We deliver critical insight at every stage of the deal lifecycle, uncovering hidden risks, validating assumptions, and enabling smarter decisions around negotiation, structuring, and execution. Our intelligence goes beyond standard diligence to surface undisclosed conflicts, informal power dynamics, and jurisdictional threats that can materially impact valuation or execution.
Standard assignments include:
Track record verification – Validating the past performance and claims of principals or firms.
Stakeholder and influence mapping – Revealing power dynamics and informal decision-making networks.
Source of wealth and funding clarity – Tracing origin of capital to flag reputational or compliance risk.
Undisclosed litigation and regulatory scrutiny – Identifying legal exposure not surfaced in standard diligence.
Integrity and reputation checks – Investigating principals and entities for reputational red flags.
Sanctions and PEP exposure – Identifying connections to restricted parties or politically sensitive actors.
Credit risk intelligence – Assessing counterparties pre-lending, monitoring exposure, and supporting recoveries.
Competitive intelligence – Assessing rival bidders, potential spoilers, or market positioning dynamics.
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We provide clients with intelligence-driven visibility into the operational risks that can disrupt continuity, erode trust, or constrain performance. Enabled by a global network of in-region sources and domain specialists, we help organizations understand and anticipate threats across their footprint—from supply chains and facilities to partners, personnel, and reputational dynamics. Our work supports day-to-day decision-making, long-term presence, and enterprise resilience.
Standard assignments include:
Executive and employee risk profiling – Identifying exposure involving key personnel and sensitive roles.
Facility and site risk intelligence – Evaluating physical assets for local threats and security dynamics.
Geopolitical risk intelligence – Informing long-term presence in complex operating environments.
Local partner and agent vetting – Assessing third parties in complex or opaque jurisdictions.
Supply chain intelligence – Identifying hidden vulnerabilities in global supplier ecosystems.
Cultural and regulatory dynamics – Understanding soft risks that impact operational effectiveness abroad.
Disinformation and reputational threat intelligence – Uncovering and contextualizing false narratives and coordinated reputation attacks.
Activism and protest risk tracking – Monitoring emerging threats to operations, personnel, or brand reputation.
Environmental and ESG-related exposure – Identifying local risks tied to environmental, social, or governance concerns.
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We assist clients with unique, high-value, or sensitive objectives that fall outside standard workflows and demand a tailored, careful approach to gathering, validating, and positioning information.
Standard assignments include:
Discreet asset acquisitions – Uncovering ownership and drivers behind sensitive, off-market transactions.
Sensitive negotiations – Providing insights on counterparties to guide negotiation strategy.
Third-party intelligence validation – Verifying advice before high-stakes strategic decisions.
Strategic positioning support – Informing timing, messaging, and perception before major moves.
Surveillance services – Gathering intelligence through discreet, lawful monitoring operations.
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In fast-moving, high-stakes situations, we deliver discreet, time-critical intelligence that brings clarity to emerging threats, crises, and urgent decisions, supporting decisive action under pressure. Often engaged on short notice and under conditions of limited information, we are able to move quickly, discreetly, and accurately to help clients stabilize situations, shape outcomes, and maintain – or regain – control.
Standard assignments include:
Rapid research – Quickly profiling subjects for context, credibility, and risk.
Real-time briefings – Guiding response with live intelligence on unfolding events.
Adversary profiling – Developing intelligence on coordinated or high-risk actors.
Real-time monitoring and escalation tracking – Tracking fast-moving risks across key environments.
Disputes
We support clients and their counsel through every phase of a dispute, uncovering facts, identifying leverage, and revealing what others overlook. Whether investigating fraud, locating hidden assets, or identifying connections between key people and events, our work delivers clarity and advantage in high-value, high-pressure matters. With global reach and deep investigative experience, we provide targeted intelligence that shapes strategy, informs legal arguments, and drives outcomes.
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We conduct high-stakes, discreet investigations that uncover critical facts, clarify accountability, and support legal, regulatory, and reputational outcomes—all tailored to each matter’s sensitivities and structured for resolution.
Standard assignments include:
Internal investigations – Partnering with counsel to investigate, assess, and resolve misconduct.
Complex investigations – Unraveling sensitive, multi-jurisdictional, and high-stakes matters.
Threat investigations – Identifying actors and assessing digital, physical, reputational threats.
Missing persons investigations – Locating individuals discreetly, including in complex and time-sensitive cases.
Trademark counterfeiting – Disrupting counterfeit networks through online and field operations.
School investigations – Conducting impartial, trauma-informed inquiries in educational settings.
HR investigations – Investigating workplace misconduct with fairness and discretion.
Fraud and fraudster investigations – Exposing scams, tracing funds, and identifying perpetrators.
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We bring specialized experience to asset tracing, having helped clients uncover hidden wealth, enforce judgments, and secure recoveries across complex, multi-jurisdictional matters. Whether pursuing high-value monetary assets or identifying leverage points for negotiation, we design and execute strategies tailored to each case’s legal, financial, and geopolitical contours, balancing investigative precision with tactical and legal foresight.
Standard assignments include:
Pre-judgment asset profiling – Identifying assets and leverage before litigation begins.
Post-award asset tracing – Locating assets globally to support judgment enforcement.
Complex ownership mapping – Uncovering layered structures and proxy networks for recovery.
High-value asset identification – Tracing wealth across jurisdictions and unconventional asset classes.
Strategic recovery support – Aligning investigative findings with legal and tactical planning.
Ongoing asset monitoring – Tracking for new indicators of potentially attachable assets.
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Litigation Task Force, our end-to-end service model for litigation support, is designed to uncover critical facts, clarify complex issues, and strengthen legal strategy from pre-complaint through post-judgment. Whether leveraged across the full lifecycle of a matter or for targeted assignments, our team works closely with counsel to help shape outcomes by developing evidence, delivering analysis, and conducting on-the-ground intelligence.
Standard assignments include:
Claim evaluation and adversary research – Assessing claims and adversaries through early-stage intelligence.
Witness identification and engagement – Locating and securing relevant, credible witness cooperation.
Narrative and timeline development – Reconstructing key facts to support or challenge claims.
Digital evidence acquisition and analysis – Recovering and interpreting emails, metadata, and device content.
E-discovery support – Assisting with digital record collection, review, and compliance.
Intelligence from confidential sources – Gathering non-public insights to close critical intelligence gaps.
Open-source and database-driven intelligence – Building profiles using open sources and proprietary databases.
Post-judgment asset targeting – Identifying assets and strategies for effective recovery enforcement.
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In contested shareholder matters, we deliver discreet intelligence that reveals hidden affiliations, interests, and dynamics to help boards, investors, and counsel identify risks, surface leverage, and strengthen their position across negotiations, communications, and votes.
Standard assignments include:
Mapping stakeholder affiliations – Uncovering hidden ties among shareholders and related entities.
Backgrounding board candidates and dissident nominees – Investigating reputational and professional risk factors.
Assessing campaign narratives – Evaluating accuracy of claims in public messaging.
Analyzing voting blocs and influence networks – Identifying real power among stakeholders and advisors.
Identifying vulnerabilities and leverage – Surfacing legal, reputational, or strategic pressure points.
Monitoring sentiment and real-time developments – Tracking shifts in media, messaging, and coordination.
Security
Grounded in real-world risk, we help clients assess, strengthen, and manage their security posture across cyber, physical, and travel domains. Whether responding to an incident or planning a major event, we deliver strategic oversight and access to top-tier technical, operational, and emergency response capabilities—led by professionals with deep experience in law enforcement, the military, cybersecurity, and global security.
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Our cybersecurity consulting, provided in close partnership with leaders from renowned global providers of network security, offensive security, and threat intelligence, integrates best-in-class technical capabilities with our strategic guidance and broader risk management services. Our joint teams perform risk assessments that provide awareness and drive prevention and fortification; respond to, contain, and remediate incidents; and lead initiatives and spearhead changes that completely transform the risk posture of our clients.
Standard assignments include:
Transformations – Modernizing defenses and fundamentally reshaping the organization’s risk posture.
Network Security Monitoring – Detecting threats and anomalies across digital infrastructure.
Penetration Testing – Simulating attacks to expose technical vulnerabilities.
Phishing Training and Testing – Educating and testing users on phishing risk.
Board Training – Equipping directors with cyber risk awareness and governance tools.
Executive Digital Protection – Safeguarding the online presence and accounts of key personnel.
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Our physical security services are informed by decades of experience, including in law enforcement and in leadership roles at some of the largest venues and events in the world. We perform government-grade security and safety risk assessments; create emergency plans that enable avoidance, or at least mitigation, when crisis strikes; and with our global network of on-the-ground professionals, we rapidly design and deploy security and safety services in connection with incidents, planned events, and as otherwise needed.
Standard assignments include:
Program Design and Development – Creating scalable, risk-based security programs.
Vetting Personnel – Screening security staff for reliability and risk.
Short-Term & Incident Protection – Rapid deployment of protective teams when needed.
Security sweeps (TSCM) – Detecting surveillance devices in sensitive spaces.
Counter-surveillance – Identifying and documenting adversarial surveillance.
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For clients on the move, we provide a full suite of travel safety and security services, including pre-travel intelligence, in-trip threat monitoring, physical security services, and in partnership with Global Rescue, emergency medical and evacuation services.
Standard assignments include:
Pre-Travel Safety Planning – Assessing risks and aligning travel with protective strategy.
In-Travel Monitoring – Tracking travelers and alerts during active trips.
Secure Drivers & Protection Agents – Providing vetted personnel for travel protection.
Medical & Evacuation Assistance – Partnering with Global Rescue for worldwide emergency response and extraction.
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We provide discreet, end-to-end event security services designed to protect people, assets, and reputations across a wide range of settings, from private gatherings to high-profile public functions. Our work includes advance risk assessments, security planning, credentialing, access control, and on-site management, all tailored to the unique profile and priorities of each event. We coordinate closely with protective teams, venue staff, and local authorities to ensure seamless execution, balancing strong security with discretion, flexibility, and respect for the guest experience.
Standard assignments include:
Corporate Events – Safeguarding executives, assets, and sensitive company proceedings.
Family Meetings – Ensuring privacy and protection in sensitive family settings.
Private Gatherings – Managing discreet security for intimate, high-profile occasions.
Shareholder Meetings – Securing venues and attendees during high-stakes corporate disclosures.
Conferences – Coordinating access, movement, and protection for large, dynamic environments.