Intelligence & Investigations
Basing business decisions on flawed intelligence can compromise your company’s strategic direction and, ultimately, its survival. Incomplete intelligence also may fail to identify fraud and other high-risk activities by employees, vendors and customers.
Kroll’s business intelligence and investigative capabilities are unparalleled in the industry. With a longstanding reputation for thoroughness and discretion, Kroll provides intelligence that helps protect business ventures, minimize financial losses, increase profits, preserve proprietary data and corporate reputations, and produce successful outcomes in litigation.
Corporate Internal Investigations
By working closely with your company’s top managers and legal counsel, Kroll’s team discreetly performs objective, third-party inquiries – without unduly disrupting your organization’s operations.Kroll conducts thorough, independent investigations and recommends prudent ways to move forward once all the evidence has been gathered.
In some cases, Kroll’s investigators turn up evidence of fraud accounting procedures and financial statements. In other cases, evidence is found on computer hard drives, servers and other forms of technology.
What We Investigate:
Investigative Due Diligence
Kroll’s investigative experts and resources are renowned for uncovering and analyzing data that has a significant impact on business transactions.Whether your company is involved in a merger, acquisition, joint venture, distribution arrangement or a similar business alliance, Kroll’s investigators help ensure that you possess critical, deal-related background information and operational knowledge before contracts are signed. Kroll also provides advice to help you better manage identified risks after the deal is completed.
What We Investigate:
Our Expanded Due Diligence Services:
Competitive Intelligence
The fierce battle for market share in today’s global economy is increasing the need for companies to determine how their competitors’ strategies will affect their businesses and bottom line. Waiting until competitors' strategies are fully implemented can be costly. Kroll provides clients with actionable intelligence about their competitors, enabling them to develop smarter market strategies.Kroll’s business intelligence experts evaluate the market in which your company operates and determine how competitors are approaching the same problems you face, where they excel and where they fall short, and whether or not rivals are financially strong.
With this information, your company can make wiser short- and long-term decisions about expansion, acquisitions and marketing, and allocate assets appropriately to achieve established business goals.
What We Do:
Intellectual Property Protection
Today, intellectual-property infringement is a significant problem for many businesses. Intellectual property includes technology, pharmaceutical products, brand names, music, films, research and strategic plans. Failure to develop a wide-ranging strategy to protect intellectual property can cost companies billions of dollars, result in lost competitive advantages and, ultimately, destroy a company's ability to compete. Kroll can provide unique strategic and tactical methods to protect your company’s intellectual property by drawing on a range of professional disciplines and experiences.Anti-Money Laundering Consulting
Kroll is the only company in the world that offers a seamless anti-money laundering solution. Kroll reviews your institution’s compliance with anti-money laundering rules and regulations applicable to any jurisdiction where you do business in Latin America and around the world. Then Kroll provides global intelligence, forensic investigations, compliance reviews and intelligence to help ensure that your institution is free from such activities now and in the future.
