Investigative Due Diligence - Global-wide
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Templeton Research is a popular choice among heavyweight private equity and hedge funds for pre-investment due diligence. Drawing on open source information and human source intelligence, the Templeton team advises on reputational and compliance risks relevant to jurisdictions around the world.
Strengths
Templeton's research is thorough and well-presented. Particular strengths include their ability and willingness to adapt and adjust scope of work and cost to the size, importance and budget of the client.
Templeton offers tailored and personalised services and genuine local expertise within its teams.
Templeton Research are exceptionally cooperative, consistently demonstrating a willingness to embrace innovative approaches and creative problem-solving. Even in the most challenging circumstances, where all avenues appear to have been exhausted, they reliably identify viable alternatives and present well-considered options to move forward.
Templeton Research offers deep and thoughtful research and analysis across public records. They offer excellent written work product as they are able to distil disparate data into a concise narrative.
Templeton Research are adaptable; they often suggest alternate solutions we may not have considered. Their report recommendations are considered and thorough. The team are highly responsive, and the content of the final work product often exceeds our expectations.
Notable practitioners
Vancouver-based Adam Ross is a co-founder of Templeton Research. Ross is adept at open-source intelligence, and is regularly retained by clients to conduct pre-investment due diligence investigations. Sources highly value Ross's professionalism and reliability.
Adam is an excellent individual. He is a very hard worker, soft spoken, knowledgeable and smart.
Adam is extremely responsive, and has excellent commercial judgement. I appreciate his very practical approach, while offering a high level of technical expertise.
Adam excels in his field.
Brendan McGloin is based in Hong Kong and is a co-founder of Templeton Research. McGloin leads the Templeton team in delivering pre-investment due diligence projects for global investors.
The team led by Brendan McGloin were very thorough and resourceful with their research and delivery, uncovering things which we would not have otherwise discovered and getting us to appropriate position in our final documentation.
Brendan has become a go-to for our really big sponsor clients in Asia who need business intelligence. He has very good judgement and is very strategic.
Brendan does intelligent, good work for his clients.
