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Challenge: An international hospitality company suspected key executives of running parallel competing businesses in South America.
Approach: We conducted exhaustive field research confirming that executives had interests in several competing businesses. We provided extensive mapping of the executives’ corporate and property interests.
We advised the client on potential regulatory pitfalls and leverage points against the executives in question.
Outcome: Our findings neutralized internal threats and mitigated multi-million dollar liabilities by facilitating the dismissal of bad actors with minimal legal exposure.
Challenge: An international climate finance entity required due diligence on an agroforestry project in a remote East African region, alongside a country and sector risk assessment.
Approach: We conducted discreet human-source inquiries and combined findings with geopolitical and cultural analysis, focusing on land use dynamics and local political structures. We identified significant operational bottlenecks driven by recent regulatory changes and interference from key local actors.
We advised the client on pending policy shifts and conflict legacies driving uncertainty and their potential impact on project execution. We provided a strategic risk analysis and advised on potential mitigation measures as well as community relations strategies.
Outcome: Our intelligence enabled the client to refine the market-entry and risk management strategy and structure a $9 million dollar investment in a high-friction market to protect its strategic interests.
Challenge: An international investor needed clarity on an investment fund and its principals linked to a major corruption and money laundering probe.
Approach: We conducted confidential interviews with industry and government insiders and analyzed the geopolitical context behind the allegations. We confirmed political motivations influenced the high-profile case and exposed a rival-backed campaign to discredit the subjects.
We advised the client on plausible future scenarios and their risk impact, mitigation measures to counter the rival-backed campaign, and strategies for navigating inter-agency rivalries.
Outcome: Our insights allowed the client to effectively navigate a complex risk landscape and structure the deal terms to protect their multi-million dollar investment.
Challenge: An international law firm required intelligence to trace assets linked to state-owned entities in West Africa for judgment enforcement.
Approach: We carried out a months-long investigation combining advanced OSINT techniques with targeted HUMINT inquiries across multiple jurisdictions. We uncovered millions of dollars in assets held through affiliated entities.
We advised the client on potential seizure and leverage strategies.
Outcome: Our work directly facilitated the recovery of millions in distressed capital by uncovering hidden asset structures.
Challenge: A client required a “worst actor” assessment of major maritime carriers operating in Panama to determine which lines posed the highest drug trafficking risk between 2019 and 2025. The client intended to use this intelligence to assess the risks of a major port acquisition involving specific carriers.
Approach: We combined onsite human intelligence with open-source data mining. We applied a cross-axis scenario analysis mapping critical uncertainties around enforcement integrity and trafficking methodology. Our work revealed the traffickers operating through Panamanian ports are largely “carrier agnostic” and target specific ports rather than shipping lines. The primary risk driver was the “rip-on/rip-off contamination method facilitated by compromised port workers and criminal organizations.
Our scenario analysis assessed that the operating environment rendered drug seizure data unreliable for judging maritime carrier probity and projected a plausible shift to a scenario a scenario that created asymmetrical regulatory risk for the client’s target acquisition. We demonstrated that the primary risk was not a single “bad apple” carrier, but the systemic permeability of the ports themselves. We advised the client to pivot their strategy: rather than searching for a non-existent “clean” carrier, they leveraged our intelligence to frame the acquisition as a high-exposure event that directly contradicted U.S. anti-narcotics goals
Outcome: The client successfully utilized this “high-friction” intelligence to challenge the commercial logic of the deal, arguing that the operational reality on the ground posed unacceptable reputational risks that standard compliance checks had failed to capture.
Challenge: An international investor was conducting due diligence on a high-profile lithium extraction venture in Chile and primarily concerned about corruption risk.
Approach: We deployed a specialized team to conduct onsite human intelligence inquiries with geologists, former government officials, and mining sector veterans in Santiago and the Antofagasta region. We cross-referenced these findings with a technical review of Chile’s National Lithium Strategy and local corporate filings.
The client assumed the asset was viable and focused on the integrity of the acquisition. However, our work revealed that the real danger lay in the project’s lack of regulatory and operational viability. We exposed a critical disconnect between the target’s marketing and the legal reality on the ground. The target lacked the proper concessions, faced indigenous opposition, claimed to be using a speculative, commercially unproven technology, and its flagship project was located in an area that made it legally unviable due to environmental protections and lack of government approval for private investment.
Outcome: Utilizing our intelligence, the client identified that the project possessed no immediate legal pathway to commercial production and avoided investment exposure to a “ghost” asset and multi-million dollar losses.