Due Diligence

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When organizations are considering a senior-level hire, an investment opportunity, onboarding new clients and other key business opportunities, Gryphon’s experts provide them with the actionable intelligence they need to make confident decisions. We offer two levels of due diligence investigations:

Open Source Due Diligence

In jurisdictions around the globe, our investigators work alongside internal compliance, human resources and investment teams at financial institutions and corporations ahead of onboarding clients and partners, conducting pre-deal diligence and evaluating M&A transactions or IPOs.

Gryphon’s teams are experts in screening high-risk accounts and performing anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations. In instances where issues of potential concern are not fully or reliably documented in the public domain, we ‘get behind’ the reporting by gathering informed commentary from our network of trusted sources.

Human Intelligence Investigations

Hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks and high-net worth individuals often require more complex due diligence investigations into potential investments or executive hires. These combine open source research with informed commentary discreetly gathered from individuals who are well-placed to comment on the subject(s) or company at length. There is particular demand for source inquiries in emerging and frontier markets, where little reliable information is available in the public domain.

Following an investment, clients often commission Gryphon to conduct due diligence monitoring on their partners and recent acquisitions to meet ongoing internal compliance requirements, safeguard their investments and minimize reputational and business risk.

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Pre-Hire Investigation of Executive Reveals Criminal Past

Engagement
A longstanding corporate client planned to onboard a new executive and asked Gryphon to run a comprehensive background check on the executive just days prior to the new appointment.

Investigation
Gryphon’s review of public sources uncovered several troubling records under a previously unknown alias. Further investigation determined that the individual had spent nearly a decade as a career felon. After several inquiries with law enforcement personnel, Gryphon obtained certified documentation of the individual’s criminal history, including his four-year stay in a state prison.

Result
Gryphon’s findings immediately dissuaded our client from moving forward with the appointment.

Investigation Yields Seizure of Client’s All Known Assets

Engagement
A Brazilian asset manager needed to investigate the assets of a prominent Brazilian real estate developer who had defaulted on a large loan to which the asset manager was a creditor.

Investigation
The developer was heavily in debt and appeared to have no assets. However, a closer look at his public profile, including a review of social media postings relevant to he and his family, uncovered links between the developer and real estate holdings in New York. Gryphon further identified a web of corporations that the developer had established in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, which were actively involved in the purchase and sale of tens of millions of dollars of real estate.

Result
After presenting these findings to the civil court in Brazil, our client received authorization to seize all of the developer’s known assets in the U.S. The seized property was auctioned off in order to cover the amount of the unpaid loan and two decades of unpaid interest.

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Pre-Hire Investigation of Executive Reveals Criminal Past

Investigation Yields Seizure of Client’s All Known Assets

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