Know and understand who your intermediaries, business partners, and customers are. Make sure your employees are who they say they are. Manage all your due diligence documents online.
The Red Flag Group provides a total due diligence service for key parts of your business. We can help you manage risk and improve performance through a highly innovative and effective online integrity profiling and document management system.
Our services are cost effective, easy to access, simple to use, and available online 24/7.
Behind the scenes, we toil to bring you in-depth reviews and background searches of your intermediaries, business partners, customers and employees, to provide "integrity profiles" for your key relationships.
Global coverage is ensured through our strategic partnerships and alliances. We provide up-to-date, localized, and accurate information. We also design specific industry solutions tailored to your due diligence and integrity-profiling needs.
We provide in-depth background review and analysis. Our due diligence not limited to public records, but concentrates on uncovering information - in an open, honest, an professional way - that meets business needs.
At the same time, you will have access to an online integrity and document management system that is cost effective, easy to use, and ensures your due diligence documents are managed in a secure and fully auditable environment.
We conduct due diligence and integrity analysis in over 80 countries. Our services are consistent globally, and all of our services are available through a single portal which manages your due diligence requests, due dates, and delivery schedule. All of our reports are completed according to a strict quality-control program to ensure consistency in look and feel, content and quality.
Our work is focused on emerging markets, including Brazil, Mexico, China, South East Asia, India, Pakistan, Gulf, Africa and Eastern Europe. We also cover more mature markets such as Western Europe, Australia, Japan, Korea, and the United States.
Please contact us for a full list of our geographic coverage.
We dig beneath the surface, pulling together information from a diverse range of sources such as local media reports, regulatory circulars, and trade newsletters, to provide you with useful and time-critical information.
Our field consultants conduct on-the-ground site visits, and provide reputational testing and analysis.
Click on the boxes on the left to learn about the Scope of our solutions.
Business History
We conduct detailed media and other searches to understand the history of the subject. Our searches often involve looking at the financial history of the subject and their product sales history.
Company Registry
We conduct detailed searches of the company registry in which the entity is registered. This commonly involves reviewing setup documents, directors, secretaries, key staff, shareholdings, ownership, capital, registered locations, details of charges (or other loan instruments).
Financial Status
Conduct detailed media and other searches to understand the history of the subject. Our searches often involve looking at the financial history of the subject and their product sales history.
International Profile
In larger matters, we look to establish a profile of a Company or a person not only in the country in which they are located, but all other countries in which they conduct business, may have had residency or may have worked for a period of time. Looking at their current domicile is not sufficient in most complex cases.
Investments
We conduct detailed analysis of corporate records to locate ‘sister’ companies, and other related companies in which the subject has shareholdings. Where necessary these holdings are tracked overseas and in other jurisdictions.
Relationships
We conduct detailed searches of the Subject to their relationships to governments, government officials and state owned entities. Either as previous employees, suppliers or through political processes. Tracking Subjects and their Principals to connections with Government is essential in Corruption led compliance efforts.
Reputational Testing
We conduct detailed reputational testing of the Subject. This involves working our network to test whether the Subject and its Principals have been involved in illegal conduct, have had integrity issues raised against them. This is true ‘intelligence’ and is often completely overlooked by ‘paper due diligence’ firms. Good reputational checks are essential.
Site Visits
There is no better intelligence gathering tool as a site visit. Attending the offices of the subject and looking at the surroundings is essential. Do they have an office? How many people? Is it as advertised? Is it in a low end building? Is manufacturing present? Is it a shared office? How many staff are present? Is the quality of the surrounding similar to that expected? Do phone numbers work? All this information goes towards establishing a picture of the Subject.
We recognize that not all due diligence is the same and that some industries have different needs. Our due diligence team can provide customized due diligence for a range of industries, and integrity analysis focusing on areas that are important to your business or industry.
Example:
- Technology firms are specifically concerned about the misuse of intellectual property and patents
- The real estate industry is concerned about approvals for licences through government departments
- Kickbacks to quality control from suppliers are a main concern of the garment sector
- The medical device and health industries want to know who their customers are, and whether they are classified as 'government'
We take the time to understand the industry and learn the important issues. Our due diligence is not a 'one-size-fits-all' service.
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Corporate Fraud Investigation and Prevention 201016-18 March 2010, Singapore
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3rd Anti-Corruption China27-29 April 2010, Hong Kong
