Business Intelligence and Investigations

• Nigeria and Ghana: Conducting a market entry risk assessment focusing on business communities in Nigeria and Ghana on behalf of a global private bank and asset management group.
• South Africa: Helping a South African bank to assess the veracity and risk surrounding their client’s alleged involvement in tender irregularities which led to an anti-corruption prosecution.
• Germany/China: Assisting a major private equity fund in ascertaining the ESG risks in a German distributor of solar power equipment, focusing on its supply chain in China.
• USA: Assessing the reputational risks of acquiring groundwater licences for a European infrastructure investment fund.
• Latin America: Assisting a major Brazilian bank on their options for the recovery of assets belonging to a portfolio of debtors in jurisdictions worldwide including the British Virgin Islands, USA, Panama, and Switzerland.
• United Kingdom: Assisting a major London law firm in identifying unencumbered assets belonging to a UK-based property developer and its shareholders that could be enforced against by their client, a China-based construction firm.
• Europe: Leading a complex multi-jurisdictional asset trace on a steel industrialist and his privately-owned conglomerate on behalf of his creditor, a global investment bank and financial services firm.
• Middle East: Identifying and assessing the recoverability of sovereign assets belonging to an East African state pursuant to an arbitration award in favour of a listed Middle Eastern bank.
• Eastern Europe: In the context of a shareholder dispute, proving that the new shareholders of an Armenian bank were using the institution to place assets out of reach of creditors in separate bankruptcy proceedings in Russia.
• China: Obtaining and analysing Chinese litigation records which uncovered the extent of the Claimant’s involvement in corruption and litigation issues that were material to the case brought against our client.
• South Africa: Investigating procurement fraud perpetrated by senior executives of a South African subsidiary of a European medical equipment firm, culminating in a two-week site visit for on-the-ground document retrieval and adversarial interviews with the perpetrators.

The above is a representative sample of our team members’ professional experiences.