Operating offices in London, New York and Dubai, Vantage Intelligence is an intelligence boutique that leads or supports major asset tracing mandates around the world. The firm is focused on advising business leaders, high net worth individuals, family offices, litigation funders, law firms and financial institutions. Various sources point to the firm's human intelligence network as a key strength of its practice.

"When there are specific things we can't do, we will outsource. They go out there and talk to people, whereas some do more desk work."

"They are in on big things with bespoke mandates."

The team was retained by a Middle Eastern bank to map the asset holdings of two brothers who were the joint chairmen of a large manufacturer, distributer and retailer of fast-moving consumer goods in Saudi Arabia in support of litigation.

Gretchen King is a founding partner of the company and a managing director. She is currently leading Vantage's expansion into the Middle East and regularly travels between London and the UAE. A source says: "She is a very smooth operator. She is very successful in what she does." "She really does get this industry and she's very pragmatic and commercial. I think highly of her," notes a market commentator.