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Investigative services for companies and institutions

Business intelligence, counterparty due diligence, asset tracing and evidence gathering — for companies, public authorities, law firms and compliance and internal audit functions.

Scope of work

Five areas in which we act for business

Every instruction starts with one question: which decision is this finding meant to support? That determines how deep we go and in what form we deliver the result.

Comprehensive counterparty due diligence

A complete picture of the entity you are about to contract with: who really stands behind it, what its track record looks like, who it is connected to, and what risk the relationship carries. Our analysis draws on public registers, filed financial statements, official gazettes and open sources.

You receive the result in a form you can put in front of a board: a concise risk summary on page one, followed by a relationship diagram and the full findings with sources cited.

Scope

  • analysis of personal and capital connections
  • identification of ultimate beneficial owners
  • review of the entity's trading history
  • identification of counterparty risk
  • reputation checks

Business intelligence

Systematic gathering and structuring of information about a market, competitors and specific entities. We answer the questions no industry report will: why this supplier suddenly cut its prices, who stands behind the new bidder in a tender, whether a partner is preparing to exit the relationship.

For long-term relationships we provide monitoring — periodic checks on whether anything material to your security has changed in the entity's environment.

Scope

  • gathering of commercial and economic information
  • analysis of the business environment
  • ongoing monitoring of entities
  • analysis of an entity's financial position

Asset tracing

Establishing whether a debtor or counterparty holds assets against which enforcement can realistically be pursued. We check real property, vehicles, business activity and possible sources of income, using only registers and lawfully available information.

Most often commissioned by law firms before referring a matter to a bailiff, and by companies weighing up whether pursuing a claim makes commercial sense.

Scope

  • real property
  • vehicles
  • business activity
  • possible sources of income

Evidence gathering

Documenting facts in a way that will survive scrutiny in proceedings. Photographic and video documentation with metadata preserved, field enquiries, and a description of the circumstances and chronology of events.

Material is collected exclusively in public and publicly accessible places. The report of activities is prepared in line with the Polish Detective Services Act, so that it can be submitted as evidence.

Scope

  • photographic documentation
  • video documentation
  • field enquiries
  • final report

Protecting the interests of the business

Support in situations where the threat comes from inside the organisation or from its immediate surroundings: a suspected fraud, a whistleblower report, an unexplained loss, a supplier linked to a decision-maker.

We work alongside your compliance function, internal audit or external counsel, so that the findings can be used in an internal investigation and, if it comes to that, before a labour court.

Scope

  • fraud prevention and detection
  • conflict-of-interest checks
  • identification of commercial connections
  • support for internal investigations

When a check is worth running

Signals that should not be ignored

Checking a counterparty costs a fraction of an unrecoverable invoice or a contract set aside. The situations below almost always justify one.

  • A new counterparty offers unusually favourable terms or pushes for a quick signature.
  • The company is newly formed, has minimal share capital, or is registered at a virtual office alongside dozens of other entities.
  • The management board or ownership structure has changed several times in a short period.
  • Several apparently unrelated bidders are competing in the same procurement.
  • You are planning a transaction, an acquisition or a long-term contract of material value.
  • An employee or counterparty has reported a possible conflict of interest.
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Deliverables

What exactly you receive

The scope of the report is agreed before work starts. It is always drafted so that it can be put in front of someone who does not know the matter.

Report of activities

A written document compliant with statutory requirements: the facts established, the course of the enquiry, the sources and the dates. No opinions presented as findings.

Source material

Register extracts, captures from publicly available databases, photographic and video documentation with metadata, and a readable diagram of the connections identified.

Debrief and recommendation

A short conversation about what the findings mean for your decision, and which risks remain unresolved. With your lawyer present if that is useful.

Check before you sign

Describe briefly who or what needs to be verified and by when. We will tell you what can be established, in what time and at what cost.

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