Elevated Perspectives,
Actionable Insights
We are an investigative research consultancy headquartered in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
We provide clients with actionable intelligence to safeguard reputation and corporate interests, navigate regulatory environments, and gain strategic advantages during investments and disputes.
Our Capabilities
Financial Institutions
We help financial institutions effectively manage their due diligence processes and internal compliance framework. Through in-depth research, discreet inquiries and investigations, our risk-relevant reports help clients gain clarity of their transaction counterparties.
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We support investment banks in conducting enhanced due diligence on listing applicants and related parties. By partnering with us, clients gain a trusted advisor who truly understands regulatory expectations, speaks their language, and knows precisely what level of scrutiny and checks are required.
Our global access to public and proprietary databases - combined with deep knowledge and on-the-ground expertise in Asia Pacific - positions us uniquely to deliver comprehensive support to our clients.
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Prior to high-stake financial transactions, we provide in-depth intelligence on target companies and associated individuals that far surpasses standard compliance checks. We integrate rigorous due diligence with specialist investigative tactics to uncover reputational red flags and undisclosed issues, ensuring clients gain sufficient comfort ahead of these transactions.
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We help wealth management and private banking teams conduct in-depth reviews of high net-worth individuals and business families, to support the banks’ risk-based approaches in reviewing new or existing high-risk clients. Source of wealth is closely scrutinized, corroborated and cross-checked against independent records to identify potential inconsistencies and discrepancies.
Corporates
We help corporate clients of varying scale review and assess the background and risk profile of their suppliers, vendors, business partners, employees or senior executives, and gather information during internal investigations.
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Our due diligence services are fully scalable - ranging from efficient, quick compliance screening of large numbers of target companies or individuals to identify significant red flags and generate risk ratings, to more in-depth and analytical due diligence reports on smaller numbers of high-risk targets.
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During internal investigation, we support clients by gathering and reviewing relevant information independently and efficiently. We enable organizations to respond to concerns promptly, assess potential misconduct or control weaknesses, and determine appropriate next steps. Our support helps clients ensure a fair, consistent, and defensible investigation, while minimizing disruption to day‑to‑day operations.
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We help corporates strengthen their governance framework and mitigate risks by assessing the integrity, operational resilience, and compliance posture of third parties like suppliers and business partners. This includes:
Validating ownership structures
Identifying hidden affiliations
Assessing financial stability
Reviewing regulatory and sanctions exposure
Evaluating ESG‑related risks
Asset Managers and Investors
Our bespoke research reports help asset managers and investors evaluate the reputation of investment targets and gather intelligence around specific topics such as earnings, profitability and financials; industry standing; scale of operations; corporate governance and internal management; relationship with third parties and customers; and political connection.
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Research potential investment targets and ascertain their levels of operations and reputation, and identify integrity, financial or conflict of interest issues.
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Gather deep intelligence around specific topics, such as connection between specific individuals, level of involvement in certain market segments, interaction between certain management members, and commercial strategy relating to specific products.
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Gather qualitative and quantitative data to corroborate or disprove investment hypotheses.
Legal Counsels
Our asset searches and investigation reports help legal counsels gain insights and strategic advantages during litigation and disputes.
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Our team works alongside counsels to develop robust investigation plans and strategies, deploy subject‑matter experts on complex technical or financial issues, and conduct or support witness interviews and subject interviews.
By providing independent assistance and specialist expertise, we help ensure the investigations are conducted in a timely, disciplined, and defensible manner.
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We handle impartial factual groundwork and evidence collection so that legal counsels can focus on legal analysis, risk assessment, and client advice. We identify and secure key documents and data to surface details that can reshape the case theory or defense strategy.
We move quickly to preserve time‑sensitive evidence and build clear timelines, enabling external counsels to respond proactively, accelerate resolution, and reduce overall cost.
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We help legal counsel in complex disputes by uncovering insights into the counterparty’s operational constraints, financial position, motivations, and likely approach in the proceedings. Our input supports strategic decisions around case positioning, negotiation leverage, and the realistic prospects of securing and enforcing an eventual award.
We work with counsels and stakeholders to direct efforts toward the approaches with the highest potential for an effective and commercially valuable outcome.
Discover the Difference
Senior-led Assignments
Senior-led from start to finish: Every assignment is personally overseen by seasoned professionals with 10+ years of experience in due diligence and investigations.
Relevant, Distilled and Actionable Reports
We filter out the noise. Our reports contain clean, concise and actionable intelligence - so you make smarter decisions faster.
Global Access and Local Expertise
Worldwide reach. Asia Pacific mastery. Our extensive sources and local-context expertise deliver precise, culturally attuned intelligence - driving more informed decisions.
High-volume Efficiency with Bespoke Flexibility
We adapt dynamically to clients’ diverse due diligence needs - producing efficient, quick-turnaround standardized reports as well as investigative, in-depth research outputs.
Decision-ready intelligence:
Rigorous, corroborated research and discreet industry inquiry for decisive action.
Our experienced team delivers high-impact intelligence: in-depth public-record research + discreet outreach to industry peers and experts. We relentlessly cross-check, corroborate, and contextualize intelligence gathered - turning raw data into clear, reliable, and decision-ready reports.
