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.

How We Help:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.