investigative consulting services

investigative consulting services

AN INTRODUCTION: a sharper point of view INSIGHT IS AN INDEPENDENT CONSULTANCY SPECIALIZING IN THE AREAS OF DUE DILIGENCE, INVESTIGATIONS AND LITIGATION SUPPORT. We provide clients in the financial, corporate and legal communities with the accurate and timely information they need to make important business decisions, manage strategic and operational risks and support their claims and defenses in litigation. Our firm is staffed by experienced lawyers and investigators who employ all available tools, from traditional investigative methods to the most up-to-date forensic solutions, to meet your objectives. We aggressively, creatively and ethically gather the facts that our clients need to be successful. Challenging global assignments are managed from offices in Newport Beach, Washington D.C. and Hong Kong pg. 1

ABOUT US: our focus is your business OUR STRENGTH IS OUR PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR SHARED VALUES. WE WORK WITH CLIENTS WHO DEMAND RESULTS IN HIGH-STAKES MATTERS WITH TIGHT DEADLINES. Discretion, confidentiality and good judgment are the cornerstones of our culture. Insight will staff your case with experienced former prosecutors and federal agents, ex-journalists, research analysts and talented technical experts who share high ethical standards and a history of creatively finding the facts for sophisticated clients in the most challenging jurisdictions in the world pg. 2

identify. analyze. mitigate. THE MOST BASIC FORM OF RISK MITIGATION IS HAVING ALL OF THE CRITICAL INFORMATION NECESSARY TO MAKE WELL-INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU DO BUSINESS. pg.3

DUE DILIGENCE AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: As any sophisticated regulator, prosecutor or journalist knows, this starts with database-driven research and onsite pulls of all of the relevant public filings. Through the use of subscription and proprietary databases, we establish the universe of the jurisdictions where the subject has lived, worked or operated. We then physically pull and analyze all of the material public filings in those jurisdictions. If there is something publicly available out there that can hurt or embarrass you, we will find it before it becomes a problem. THESE TYPICALLY INCLUDE FILINGS RELATED TO: - Criminal history - Federal and state civil litigation - Corporate affiliations - Bankruptcies, liens and judgments - Regulatory sanctions - Negative and/or relevant news articles - Credit history (with a release) - Property ownership - Uniform Commercial Code filings - Education and employment history (with a release) This work is often supplemented by source work. Many times our clients care most about what isn t publicly available. From the initial research we can generate a source list that may include such people as our subject s adverse litigants, former partners and financial sponsors, analysts, journalists, former employers and employees. We also have relationships and access to a global network of sources that allow us to focus on our subject s reputation in a particular industry or community as well as among law enforcement sources and government regulators pg.4

5 pg. trust but verify INSIGHT PROVIDES A WIDE RANGE OF LITIGATION SUPPORT SERVICES TO HELP BUILD AND STRENGTHEN YOUR CASE.

pg.6 LITIGATION SUPPORT: Through our work with some of the world s most successful lawyers, we have developed a unique perspective and broad capabilities to confirm and establish facts outside of the normal discovery process. Can you trust traditional discovery to give you all of the facts that you need to make your case? Is that key document what it purports to be? Are you getting the whole story? Let s find out WE GATHER ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE IN A LEGAL AND ETHICAL MANNER TO SUPPORT OUR CLIENTS CLAIMS AND DEFENSES. WE OFTEN: - Identify, locate, evaluate and interview potential witnesses - Investigate the backgrounds of the opposition s key fact and expert witnesses - Investigate undisclosed links between subjects - Discover hard to find information - Interview confidential sources for background information where publicly available records provide an incomplete picture - Fact check witness statements and deposition testimony and the authenticity of documents - Profile the opposition s asset base COMPUTER FORENSICS: Our experts work with clients and their attorneys on the collection, preservation and analysis of electronic evidence. Nothing is as valuable as the experience of our professionals when it comes to internal investigations involving fraud, compliance issues, employment claims of harassment and discrimination, or suspected theft of trade secrets and intellectual property. We work closely with counsel to minimize disruption to company operations, while quickly and cost-effectively gathering all relevant data, conducting the analysis and delivering it in admissible form through declarations or live expert testimony. We help counsel win the case with documents SERVICES INCLUDED: - Acquisition of electronic evidence - Recovery and analysis of data - Support for internal investigations - Strategic planning for effective discovery - Expert witness support and testimony

pg.7 FRAUD AND CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS: we find the answers WITH THE EXPERIENCE AND JUDGMENT THAT OUR PEOPLE HAVE DEVELOPED WORKING ON A VARIETY OF MATTERS IN GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR, WE LL DETERMINE WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN VICTIMIZED AND BY WHOM. We routinely investigate fraud, accounting irregularities, trade secret theft, FCPA violations, embezzlement, computer crimes, information leaks, undisclosed relationships and transactions, vendor fraud, kickbacks and other misconduct. We work with counsel to develop an investigative plan to gather the critical facts. Often, our discreet approach allows you to decide the best way to proceed before revealing the existence of the investigation to others inside or outside of the organization

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