About

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S-RM’s Deal Advisory practice provides specialist support to clients ahead of transactions, delivering intelligence that informs investment decisions, addresses critical intelligence gaps, and answers strategic questions. The practice undertakes investigative due diligence into companies and prospective management teams to help investors identify, understand, and mitigate risk ahead of investments, M&A, capital markets transactions, joint venture partnerships, market entry, and other high-value commercial decisions.


The practice specialises in assessing integrity issues; reputational concerns; corporate governance; track-records; corruption, bribery and other financial crime concerns; political networks and relationships; regulatory dynamics; ESG issues; and cyber security concerns. The practice’s clients include law firms, leading private equity firms, development finance institutions, impact investors, multinational corporations, investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, and investment managers.


S-RM’s traditional investigators are supported by the company’s cyber security experts, who conduct dark and deep web research and identify cyber risks to investment targets.


The practice’s areas of particular expertise include:

  • Pre-transactional due diligence
  • ESG due diligence
  • Asset provenance investigations
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Market entry studies
  • Background checks
  • Cyber due diligence

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Investigative Due Diligence - Global-wide

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What the Team is Known For

S-RM is a London-headquartered global cyber and intelligence consultancy. The firm's deal advisory team delivers complex pre-transactional due diligence to several of the world's largest private equity houses, corporate/M&A teams, international financial institutions, banks and governments. The team operates globally but has particular expertise gathering intelligence in Asian and the sub-Saharan African markets. The firm's investigators are supported by its cybersecurity experts.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Ian Massey
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Ian Massey
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Ian Massey heads S-RM's corporate intelligence team in EMEA. Massey is an impressive investigator with a global clientele, regularly advising clients on pre-transactional due diligence and other deal-related intelligence.

Ian Massey is extremely responsive, highly capable and very commercially aware. He really is excellent to work with.

Ian is an excellent leader but also an excellent client manager. He is very responsive.

Ian Massey is always responsive and always listens carefully to our requirements and their nuances.

Morgan Stark
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Morgan Stark
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Morgan Stark is the director of S-RM's Hong Kong operation and the Asia-Pacific head of corporate intelligence. Morgan has overseen S-RM's recent expansion in Asia, with new offices opening in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Morgan Stark is very much trusted by everyone in our organisation. He is able to identify the most minute of details.

Morgan is always a pleasure to work with. He has a thorough understanding of issues and client needs, which is reflected in his deliverables.

Morgan is top-notch. He is just a fantastic leader with a lot of experience on the ground in Asia.

Morgan Stark possesses exceptional commercial acumen and a deep understanding of the industry. He is consistently responsive and always goes above and beyond to accommodate clients' needs.

Morgan Stark is a great person to work with. He has very high expertise and he is quick to understand our business and our concerns.

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Ian Massey
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Ian Massey
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Morgan Stark
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Morgan Stark
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Members

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Harriet Lord

Ian Massey

Martin Devenish MBE

Head of Department

Natalie Thomas Stafford

Sam Taylor

Toby Thomas

Industries

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Commodity Trading

Consumer Goods

Consumer Services

Financials & Insurance

Industrials

Legal

Oil & Gas

Private Health & Education

Technology