Integrity Due Diligence service

A best-practice compliance service combining risk and legal expertise

The multi-disciplinary offering aims to help our clients mitigate key risk, compliance and integrity issues

The regulatory framework for anti-bribery and corruption and other risks such as sanctions has strengthened globally. Simultaneously, 'integrity' issues leading to incidences of reputation damage have come to light.

For these reasons, the Integrity Due Diligence (IDD) service is now essential in doing business. Potential IDD 'Targets' include a broad range of counterparties within litigation and corporate mandates. IDD complements our client's legal and financial due diligence, to assess 'real risks' related to M&A targets and other deal compliance, local partnerships, suppliers and other third parties, or vetting of senior hires. This is particularly the case when doing business in higher risk and frontier markets.

Access greater reporting on risk, compliance and integrity issues

The IDD is an open source search of identifier information on a target individual or target entity and its shareholders and directors. The search includes available public records sources such as corporate and compliance databases, subscriptions, journals and media. All research in our reports is referenced to inform our analysis.

Our executive summary presents concise and high-level information with actionable advice. This provides our clients with a snapshot of research and analysis with a focus on suggested mitigating steps for any identified or potential issues.

For the targets, we first aim to identify and profile:

• Beneficial ownership: direct and indirect shareholdings, illustrated through a corporate structure diagram
• Corporate activities: operations, media profile and identifier information
• Key personnel: professional history, directorships, affiliations and management style
• Corporate affiliations: business links and any third parties

Focus then turns to risk, compliance and integrity issues:

• Political links and exposure: Politically-Exposed-Persons (PEPs)
• Bribery and corruption risk: specific as well as jurisdiction and sector risks
• Other regulatory, governance or reputation risks
• Prudential risk: any bankruptcies or litigation
• Sanctions assessment