Swiss investigations, intelligence and digital forensics

Facts that withstand scrutiny.

Swiss enterprises, public authorities, family offices and the lawyers who advise them instruct us when a decision turns on something that cannot be established from the inside. A counterparty before signature. A candidate before an appointment. A supplier relationship, a data loss, a shortfall, an incident nobody can yet explain. We establish it, document it, and set out what it means.

Whom we
act for

Swiss SMEs and family businesses
Communes, cantons and federal offices
Family offices and private clients
Banks, wealth and asset managers
Law firms acting for any of them
Response
On site within 24h
Working languages
DE, FR, IT, EN
Evidence custody
Switzerland
Independence
No audit or consulting arm

Why clients
call us

Some mandates begin with an opportunity, others with a problem. Both come down to information a company cannot obtain on its own, in a form it can rely on later.

A counterparty, investor or acquisition target needs to be understood before signature
A senior appointment, an IT administrator or a finance hire needs verifying
A supplier relationship looks closer to an employee than it should
Stock, goods or margin are disappearing and internal reviews have stalled
Client data or know-how appears to have left with a departing employee
A payment was diverted, an account compromised, and the facts are unclear
A debtor, an asset or a person needs to be located, in Switzerland or abroad
Premises, access controls and staff need testing before somebody else tests them

One team,
four disciplines

One conflict free Swiss team follows a matter from the warehouse floor to the company laptop, through public records, and across borders. No handover between vendors, one chain of custody, one report.

Investigation
Case direction, interviewing, evidence preservation, support to complaints and civil claims.
Digital forensics
Acquisition and analysis of company devices, accounts and systems in our own laboratory.
Intelligence
Records, ownership, counterparty and litigation research, asset tracing, screening.
Field enquiries
Verification in the real world, by investigators authorised in the canton concerned.

Selected
mandates
Anonymised

Client Question put to us Work performed Client decision
Industrial supply Why stock levels at two depots had not reconciled for nineteen months Goods movement analysis, field verification, six interviews Criminal complaint
Precision manufacturing Whether a purchasing lead held an interest in a newly favoured supplier Foreign registry research, email review, interview Termination, restitution
Private bank What client data a departing relationship manager had taken, and where it went Forensic acquisition, exfiltration timeline Injunction
Family office Who ultimately stood behind a proposed co-investor, and what else they were involved in Extended screening, cross border records, source enquiries Deal withdrawn
Cantonal office Whether a bidder for a maintenance contract was connected to a previously excluded firm Ownership mapping, registry and field verification Bidder excluded
Medtech group Whether a visitor could reach the development floor unchallenged Physical and human layer security test, agreed scenarios Access redesign

Composite and anonymised. Client identities and case detail are never published, given in references, or used in marketing.

Where we sit

The police will not conduct your internal fact finding. A traditional detective agency will not produce evidence a board, an insurer or a court can work with. A large consultancy brings conflicts, bureaucracy and a team you never meet.

Prime Trace was built for the space in between: genuine field and forensic capability, run with the process discipline of a law firm, by the people who will actually do the work.

What we do Speak to a case director