What we do

Seven practices, one case file.

Most mandates draw on more than one of these. They are led by a single case director, run on one evidence record, and reported once.

Practice

Corporate investigations

A case director owns the matter from the first briefing to the final report, and is the person you call throughout.

Fraud, theft and misconduct investigations
Inventory and goods loss investigations
Conflict of interest and procurement matters
Whistleblower reports and workplace allegations
Investigative interviewing in four languages
Evidence preservation and secure custody
Support to criminal complaints and civil proceedings
Typically instructed when
A loss has been identified but not explained, an internal review has reached the limit of what colleagues can ask each other, or the answer may end up in front of a court.

Practice

Due diligence and intelligence

Records, registries and human sources, assembled into a picture of who you are actually dealing with.

Counterparty, investor and acquisition target research
Beneficial ownership and corporate structure mapping
Supplier and distributor integrity reviews
Litigation and enforcement history
Undisclosed relationships and connected interests
Asset tracing and location of persons
International records and source enquiries
Typically instructed when
A transaction, credit decision, distribution agreement or joint venture depends on people and structures that are not visible from the paperwork provided.

Practice
Public sector

Mandates for public authorities

Work for communes, cantonal offices and federal bodies, conducted on a documented basis and in a form that survives an administrative appeal, a media enquiry or a parliamentary question.

Integrity checks on bidders, contractors and subcontractors in public procurement
Verification of facts underlying entitlements, domicile and residence
Investigations into misuse of public funds and internal irregularities
Background verification for sensitive and security relevant appointments
Locating persons and assets for enforcement and debt collection offices
Security testing of public premises, counters and administrative processes
Support to legal services in administrative and criminal proceedings

We work in German, French and Italian, accept mandates under public procurement rules, and can be engaged through a framework agreement or as a single instruction.

Typically instructed when
An office needs facts established by someone outside its own hierarchy, an award or an entitlement is being contested, or a matter is too sensitive to be handled by colleagues of the people concerned.

Practice

Digital forensics

Our own Swiss laboratory, so devices and data never leave the country and never leave our custody.

Forensic acquisition of company computers, phones and cloud accounts
Email, messaging and document analysis
Deletion and timeline reconstruction
Data exfiltration and departing employee cases
Business email compromise and payment diversion
Incident reconstruction after a cyber attack
Evidence documented for court and insurer use
Typically instructed when
Something happened on a company system and the internal IT team should not be the one examining it, or the material has to survive scrutiny later.

Practice

Field enquiries

Verification in the physical world, where documents cannot settle the question. Carried out by investigators authorised in the canton concerned.

Verification of commercial activity at an address
Documentation of goods and vehicle movements
Site and neighbourhood enquiries
Observation and movement analysis
Discreet source enquiries
Locating persons and coordinating enquiries abroad
Typically instructed when
A supplier address, a claimed activity, a movement of goods or the whereabouts of a person has to be established rather than assumed.

Practice

Adversarial security testing

We approach your organisation the way an intruder would, on agreed scenarios, and report what worked.

Physical access and tailgating tests
Social engineering against agreed pretexts
Reception, badge and visitor process review
Clean desk and unattended workstation review
Open source exposure of the company and its principals
Technical penetration testing with a named specialist partner under our case management
Typically instructed when
A board wants to know whether its investment in security actually stops a person walking in, calling in, or being let in.

Practice

Screening for sensitive roles

Three defined depths, chosen according to what the role can actually affect.

StandardIdentity, qualifications, directorships and public record
ExtendedIntegrity, adverse information and conflicting interests, for finance, procurement and IT roles
ExecutiveIn depth review and periodic rescreening, for executives, family offices and critical positions
Typically instructed when
A candidate will hold payment authority, system administration rights, trade secrets, or access to a family and its home.