Due Diligence for Investors and Employers

The People Stories That Can Make Or Break A Business

  • Are the company principals really who they say they are? Have they left key unfavorable positions off their resumes? Can we find conflicts of interest or other damaging information?
  • Is the organization chart complete? We once examined an investment target’s org chart of some 200 entities and found 50 more through a search of public records.
  • Former employees can help tell you what kind of people you are investing with, but where are they? We will locate and – if you choose – interview them to see what people are like when they are working, and not just presenting to potential investors.
  • We perform background checks on the people behind the EB-5 visa program investments. No other kind of visa to gain permanent residence in the U.S. requires so much research on the part of the applicant. Invest with the wrong project, and you could not only be denied a green card but you could lose your investment too. Looking at the track record of a developer of your prospective investment project is much easier than going through the hundreds of pages of documents you and your lawyer will need to examine carefully before you invest your money.

CASE STUDY: LITIGIOUS POTENTIAL PARTNERS

We were hired by a fund of funds to look at a pair of hedge fund managers operating in the Midwest. We were not granted access to the individuals and were asked only to search the public record and media. We also searched litigation involving the two men in the four counties in which they had lived and worked during their careers, as well as litigation involving their previous funds in counties in which those funds had been based and where their major customers were. We were able to state that both men either had been or were currently in litigation against funds they claimed to have founded. We also found two companies associated with the men that they had not put on either their resumes or on their personal LinkedIn pages. In addition to questions about the fund’s investment strategy, our client was able to have a much more informed conversation with the men about their relationships with colleagues, as well as having the option to contact former colleagues we identified and located. Our bill was $4,800.

CASE STUDY: DROPPED COMPANY FROM RESUME

A company looking to hire a Chief Marketing Officer asked us to look at the leading candidate. He turned out to have omitted employment at a public company that was revealed in securities filings and came up in a search of securities filings. He claimed that this company had asked him to do unethical things. We interviewed the CEO of his former employer, who told us he had been fired for being extremely lazy. The CEO and his company had never been alleged to have done anything unethical. In the end, our client decided not to hire the individual who later scrubbed his entire work history from his LinkedIn profile. Our bill was $2,000.

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