Disputes & Investigations

We investigate allegations, suspected wrongdoing, disputed facts, and other sensitive matters requiring independent scrutiny, drawing on rigorous research, source inquiries, fieldwork, and specialist capabilities as appropriate. Where warranted, our work may also support referrals to law enforcement or other relevant authorities.

Standard assignments include

• Internal investigations — Partnering with counsel to investigate, assess, and resolve misconduct.
• Complex and cross-border investigations — Unraveling sensitive, multi-jurisdictional, and high-stakes matters.
• Fraud investigations — Establishing fraud, identifying responsible actors, and developing actionable evidence through digital investigation, fieldwork, and financial analysis.
• Workplace and HR investigations — Investigating workplace misconduct with fairness and discretion.
• School and institutional investigations — Conducting impartial, trauma-informed inquiries in educational and institutional settings.
• Missing persons and locating investigations — Locating individuals discreetly, including in complex and time-sensitive cases.
• Trademark and counterfeiting investigations — Disrupting counterfeit networks through online and field operations.
• Specialist investigations — Conducting tailored investigations into unusual, sensitive, or high-value matters.

We bring specialized experience to asset tracing, helping clients uncover hidden wealth, support judgment enforcement, and pursue recoveries across complex, multi-jurisdictional matters. Our work is closely aligned with legal and tactical strategy, ensuring investigative findings support enforcement and recovery objectives.

Standard assignments include

• Pre-judgment asset profiling — Identifying assets, ownership interests, and potential leverage before litigation or enforcement.
• Post-award asset tracing — Locating assets globally to support judgment enforcement and recovery.
• Complex ownership mapping — Uncovering layered structures, beneficial ownership, and proxy networks relevant to recovery.
• High-value asset identification — Tracing wealth across jurisdictions and unconventional asset classes.
• Ongoing asset monitoring — Tracking new indicators of potentially attachable or recoverable assets.

Litigation Task Force, our end-to-end service model for litigation support, is designed to uncover critical facts, clarify complex issues, and strengthen legal strategy from pre-complaint through post-judgment.

Standard assignments include

• Claim evaluation and adversary research — Assessing claims and adversaries through early-stage intelligence.
• Witness identification and engagement — Locating relevant witnesses and supporting efforts to secure cooperation.
• Narrative and timeline development — Reconstructing key facts to support or challenge claims.
• Digital evidence acquisition and analysis — Recovering and interpreting emails, metadata, and device content.
• E-discovery support — Assisting with digital record collection, review, and compliance.
• Intelligence from confidential sources — Gathering non-public insights to close critical intelligence gaps.
• Open-source and database-driven intelligence — Building profiles, establishing facts, and identifying relevant connections, history, and evidence using open sources and proprietary databases.