Our firm is different from mainstream consulting, law, or security and risk firms.

We offer a rich, integrated set of Compliance-related solutions. We provide our clients with a range of solutions that meet their needs rather than require clients to build it themselves. We appreciate that much of the challenges of managing Compliance infrastructure is time. As a result, our focus is to provide pre-built, pre-tested solutions that reduce the delivery risks of our clients.

Our professionals concentrate on solving complex Governance and Compliance problems and executing specialized risk management strategies. We strive to maintain and enhance our base of highly talented professionals and pride ourselves on being able to offer clients more senior-level attention than may be available from many of our competitors. Most of our senior management team has worked as in-house counsel or as Chief Compliance officers in major international companies. Their background and experience means that we have actually practiced what we preach, and we learned the hard way how to implement Compliance programs. Our experience is practical and real – not theoretical. This experience, combined with the accumulated experience of our consultants means that you get real experience from real practitioners, not first-year or mid-level consultants who need constant guidance and direction.

We pride ourselves that we move fast. We have a flat management structure that allows us to make decisions fast, act quickly and get solutions implemented quickly for our clients. We recognize that having this structure gives enormous value to our clients who often have very limited "headspace" to deal with issues as they arise.

We are an independent firm, free of many of the conflicts that can arise at larger consulting institutions as a result of their varied audit, investigation, research and other activities.

Our firm has established its brand in a matter of years. We are focused on providing world-class professional advice in complex strategic and Governance and Compliance assignments, utilizing both our global capabilities and deeply rooted, local know-how.

We are focused on three primary businesses—Governance & Compliance Advisory, Due Diligence and Technology—rather than on a broad range of advisory services. We believe this focus has helped us attract clients and recruit professionals who want to work in a firm where these activities are the central focus.

We believe that linking our talented indigenous professionals, deep local roots and industry expertise across offices enables us to be a global firm while maintaining a local identity. This approach enables us to build close, local relationships with our clients and to develop insight into both local and international commercial, economic and political issues affecting their businesses. We do not regard any single jurisdiction as our home country.

Our Corporate Governance & Compliance Advisory business includes both our Mergers and Acquisitions practice and our Investigatory/Remediation practice, which historically have been countercyclical to each other, thus helping to stabilize our revenue stream. Our Technology business helps provide further stability, principally because we generate significant recurring client business from year to year. Our revenue is also geographically diversified: in 2007 we derived 80% of our net revenue from North America, in 2008 around 70% and in 2009 around 65%.

We believe that our people are united by a desire to be a part of an independent firm in which their activities are at the core and by a commitment to excellence and integrity in their activities. This is reinforced by the significant economic stake our managing directors have in our success. In our opinion, the strength of our many long-term client relationships is a testament to our distinctive culture and approach to providing superior advice to our clients.