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“A global network of on-ground and properly qualified local resources can provide leadership teams with information quickly,” says Ozturk, “Kroll has these resources in spades—in a seamless global team of intelligence professionals, forensic accountants, AML/CTF experts, finance professionals and industry/regional experts.” 

Whether it’s a transaction, a new partner, accepting foreign capital, vetting social compliance in supply chains or ensuring robust ESG compliance, FII helps the world’s largest companies and financial institutions fill information gaps, mitigate risk and anticipate and resolve disputes. “We want to uncover potential sleeper risks ahead of a transaction,” says Ozturk. “But we’re also increasingly seeing clients who want counterparty asset searches as part of their diligence before entering into a relationship to identify contingency points of leverage should the relationship sour.”

As the importance of ESG performance rises, related issues are an increasing focus of pre-transactional due diligence and post-transactional monitoring. Value creation can be sustained only if companies are well governed and the social/environmental assets underlying those returns are not depleted.

Cyber risk diligence is increasingly a “must-have” component of due diligence. Confidence in cybersecurity pre-transaction avoids a post-transaction future of risks, theft, fines and costly remediation. Cybersecurity M&A diligence identifies information security risks and shortfalls in governance, operations and technology, researching undisclosed or unknown data breaches and assessing the target’s ability to detect/respond to a cybersecurity incident.