DUE DILIGENCE & INVESTIGATIONS

We regularly complete due diligence projects and assignments on behalf of clients in the infrastructure, construction, hydrocarbon; information technology, telecommunications, banking and finance sectors. This includes complex assignments in emerging markets (in Asia, South America and the Middle East) and high risk locations.

IR has an equally strong pedigree in managing complex and challenging investigations on behalf of our global clients.

For example:
• IR was appointed by a major Middle East Bank to investigate the international assets of a company that defaulted on loans of over US$600m. IR delivered a strategy to identify and locate assets in jurisdictions where legal remedies could be obtained and then advised the client on which assets could be recovered economically and practically.
• IR led the investigation into a accounts clerk who stole over AUD$43m from an international bank over a period of several years – the largest commercial embezzlement in Australian corporate history. The IR investigation resulted in the recovery of AUD$35m of assets for our client.
• IR successfully investigated the leak of sensitive board papers from a leading international company to the financial media.
• IR was contracted to locate the principal of an Australian company who had disappeared after defaulting on AUD$20m of debt. IR located the businessman staying under an assumed name in a premium London Hotel.