KPMG Forensic corporate intelligence team helps clients to identify, assess and manage reputational, undisclosed commercial and regulatory risks. We provide information to assist you with assessment of clients, suppliers, business partners or M&A targets; legal disputes; and to obtain recoveries of assets which had been diverted or misappropriated.

Specifically, we can assist with the following:

• Identification of controlling interests, when ownership structures are not transparent.
  
• Assessment of personal and professional integrity of key shareholders, top managers or other related parties.
  
• Indication on whether there is track record of illegal or ethically questionable activities (such as money laundering, terrorist financing, corrupt disbursements, black cash conversion operations, dubious takeovers, bribe payments or non-arms length transfer pricing schemes).
  
• Analysis of potential political risks, such as exposure to politically motivated scrutiny by the regulatory and/or law enforcement authorities.
  
• Investigation of any other commercial risks (such as potentially challengeable property rights).

The team has extensive experience of making discrete enquiries in FSU countries. Knowledgeable about local market peculiarities, our corporate intelligence analysts put their findings into relevant social and political contexts to provide a more comprehensive, balanced and well informed understanding of the situation.

We have access to a broad range of open data sources, such as media archives, public records, and regulatory filings, both globally and locally. In addition, we have a wide network of contacts across the region capable of providing current non-public domain intelligence.

Where appropriate, the enquiries we make are discrete and confidential. We uphold high ethical standards and put particular value on professional integrity of our analysts, sources and work processes.