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Investigative Due Diligence - Global-wide
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.
Strengths
We view Control Risks as the best in the business. Its reports are very detailed and sophisticated.
Control Risks have a great level of depth and a stellar network for investigative matters. They are able to touch on some very out-of-sphere jurisdictions and attain on the ground intelligence.
Control Risks is very thorough, commercially aware of each jurisdiction we engage it for and the work product produced is very bespoke and covers all potential risks we ask about.
Notable practitioners
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 Smith is super technical and commercial.
Henry is very switched on and he has a great network.
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 Pyman's experience in the sector as well as in the business world, specifically in Asia, shows.
Jessica Pyman is very thorough and hands-on.
Jessica has excellent technical skills.