Professional Asset Tracing
Assets don't move themselves or make decisions about where to hide. Behind every complex financial structure, every offshore account, and every seemingly impenetrable corporate maze, there are real people making strategic decisions about how to position, protect, or conceal wealth. These individuals - whether they're the beneficial owners, trusted advisors, family members, or professional enablers - hold the keys to understanding the entire asset picture. This is why our approach - an intelligence based approach through primary sources - is key to unlocking who the people are who conceal assets.
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Consider how this plays out in practice. You might discover a web of shell companies across three different jurisdictions, but until you identify who's actually pulling the strings - the person signing documents, making banking transfer decisions, or providing instructions to trustees - you're essentially looking at an empty corporate structure. The companies themselves are just legal vehicles; the power lies with the people who control them.
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This human element becomes even more critical when you realize that people have patterns, relationships, and behavioural tendencies that can be traced and predicted. A person who consistently uses certain law firms, banks in specific jurisdictions, or relies on particular family members or business associates creates a web of connections that can guide your investigation toward other hidden assets.
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The most sophisticated asset concealment schemes often rely on layers of trusted intermediaries - lawyers, accountants, wealth managers, or family office professionals. Understanding who these people are, how they operate, and what their professional networks look like can unlock access to assets that would otherwise remain completely invisible through purely financial analysis.
Market Research Services
Competitive Research
Competitive Intelligence research (CI) is the process of gathering and analysing information about a company's competitors, industry trends, and market conditions to inform strategic decision-making. This information can be used to gain a competitive advantage and make informed decisions about product development, marketing strategies, and pricing.​
Value & Supply Chain Research
Value and supply chain research refers to the practice of gathering, analysing, and interpreting data about the various components of a supply chain, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. By using value and supply chain research, businesses can gain valuable insights into their supply chain operations, including opportunities for cost savings, improvements in efficiency, and risk mitigation.
Corporate Investigations
Our Partners have a wealth of experience in conducting Corporate Investigations since we have specialized expertise and experience in conducting investigations. We have trained investigators who have knowledge of investigative techniques, such as surveillance, forensic accounting, and digital forensics. This enables them to conduct thorough and comprehensive investigations. Our Partners are also Certified Fraud Examiners and Certified Financial Crime Specialists.
We are truly independent - this means our clients benefit from unbiased investigations as we provide objective and impartial investigations, without any conflict of interest. This ensures that the investigation is conducted fairly and without any influence or bias from the organisation or its stakeholders.
By outsourcing investigations, organisations can avoid risks, such as accusations of bias, retaliation, and legal liability. We conduct all investigations in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Investigations into misconduct or fraud can damage a company's reputation. By using an independent firm of investigators, companies can demonstrate their commitment to transparency and accountability and protect their reputation.
Tradeshow Insights
Tradeshow Insights, whilst not well known, is a very valuable technique to gathering a variety of insights useful for most businesses in most industries. Examples of the types of insights that can be gathered during trade shows include gathering industry trends, competitor insights, customer insights, partnership opportunities, sales leads, marketing insights and industry challenges.
Integrity Due Diligence
When your organisation works with intermediaries, consultants, contractors, industrial partners, suppliers, distributors and other business partners, you are faced with risks that can impact companies’ integrity and reputation, and over which you might have little control or influence.
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May jurisdictions have anti-corruption laws that require you to demonstrate you have done sufficient due diligence and have a system to monitor and manage corruption risk, and you have adequate books and records to support your anti-corruption posture.
Choosing the wrong business partner may also have a negative impact on your company’s earnings, image, reputation and access to market opportunities.
PrimeIntel is skilled in conducting Integrity Due Diligence projects where we collect, analyse records and sources of intelligence about your business partners’ financial and non-financial information in order to provide you with a detailed risk evaluation and mitigation recommendations.