Sector 01 — Corporate
Investigative and intelligence support for the corporate decision environment.
For boards, general counsel, compliance, and security leadership in multinational and listed organisations — where reporting must be defensible and decisions must be timely.
Engagement context
How we work with corporate clients
Corporate engagements are characterised by formal governance, regulatory exposure, and reporting obligations to multiple stakeholders. Our work is structured to be received by boards, audit committees, regulators, and external auditors — without rework.
We accept instructions from general counsel, the company secretary, audit and risk committees, the chief compliance officer, the chief security officer, and authorised in-house investigators. Where matters are sensitive, we operate under counsel direction and external privilege.
Typical matters
What corporate clients engage us for
Internal investigations
Fraud, misconduct, conflicts of interest, leakage of confidential information, and whistleblower-triggered inquiries.
Pre-transaction diligence
Diligence on principals, targets, counterparties, and post-deal integration risk.
Regulatory exposure
Independent investigative support to matters with regulatory or enforcement implications.
Threat & protective intelligence
Programmes for executives, facilities, and travel — including hostile-state and adversary monitoring.
Counterparty & supply chain integrity
Diligence and continuous monitoring of vendors, partners, and supply chain participants.
Crisis & incident response
Investigative and intelligence support during regulatory action, hostile media, or operational crises.
Operating standard
How we engage corporate clients
Through counsel
Sensitive matters are conducted under instructing counsel, with privilege protected throughout.
Board-grade reporting
Findings are written for the actual recipient — board, committee, regulator — not as generic deliverables.
Sustained mandates
Where exposures are continuous, engagements are configured as ongoing programmes rather than one-time matters.
Discretion by design
Compartmented information handling protects the matter, the people involved, and the organisation.
Selected engagements
Anonymised examples
Internal investigation — Listed multinational
Suspected procurement fraud across three subsidiaries
Counsel-directed investigation. Identified collusion, recovered evidence, and supported civil action and authority referral. Outcome: containment ahead of audit cycle; no market disclosure required prematurely.
Pre-transaction — Acquirer
Integrity diligence on senior executives of acquisition target
Outcome: two undisclosed conflicts identified, deal repriced, and governance terms revised before signing.
Threat programme — Multinational principal
Sustained protective intelligence and adversary monitoring
Continuous mandate covering principal, family, residences, and travel across multiple jurisdictions. Outcome: two threat events pre-empted; no public incident.