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Control Risks

Investigative Due Diligence

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Control Risks provides a wide variety of transaction advisory services from investigative due diligence into a target’s management team, operations and commercial relationships, to analysis of regulatory and policy developments that may affect an investment, and reviews of portfolio companies’ performance. These advisory services enable our clients to proceed with confidence on investment opportunities, using our research and intelligence to inform other due diligence streams and negotiations with a target, and enabling the prioritisation of key issues immediately following investment or acquisition.

Our clients are private equity and credit funds, infrastructure and real estate funds, multinational corporates, and the legal firms that advise them. They value our responsiveness and ability to meet moving deadlines; the precision with which we scope research and analysis requirements; the access our human sources who can provide to intelligence and insight; and our ability to contextualise opportunities and risks. We can do this through the scale and geographical spread of our team, which is over 170 experts in 38 offices around the world, and the expertise that this team draws on from our adjacent political risk, cyber security, forensic accountancy and ESG teams.

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Investigative Due Diligence - Global-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Control Risks is a well-established specialist risk consultancy with a respected reputation and a significant global footprint. Its compliance, forensics and intelligence department supports clients in major transactions through detailed intelligence about management team dynamics, extensive research into an operating entity in a high-risk country, or policy-focused analysis about a consequential piece of regulation. Control Risks also has a separate compliance-focused due diligence practice called Vantage.

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Strengths

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  • Control Risks responds promptly, communicates seamlessly and demonstrates a strong ability to fully understand client needs.

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  • Control Risks has a quick understanding of the matter at hand and a wide network of relationships which can be leveraged. The speed of turnaround is also good.

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  • Control Risks has the ability to conduct research and gather information, often in complex jurisdictions. It has experience, knowledge and professionalism, as well as approachability and willingness to collaborate with its clients.

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  • Control Risks has an excellent network and cyber and technological capabilities.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Jessica Pyman
    Jessica Pyman

    Jessica Pyman

    Jessica Pyman is Control Risks' regional head of business intelligence in the Asia-Pacific region. Pyman is experienced in using business intelligence to support fraud investigations, asset tracing and recovery and litigation.

    • Jessica leads the entire Asia-related intelligence assignments in the firm. She has a well-developed network and deep knowledge.

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    • Jessica is very experienced. She's been in this industry for a long time and she gives me the comfort to be able to lead the team to make decisions and move work forward.

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  • Henry Smith
    Henry Smith

    Henry Smith

    Henry Smith is a London-based partner and head of Control Risk's EMEA due diligence team. He advises private equity funds and institutional investors on reputational and regulatory risks.

    • Henry is an excellent professional and has delivered for us several times.

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    • Henry has great judgement and a great client manner.

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    • Henry brings real commercial nous as well the depth of experience we need.

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