Discreet investigative support
Verification before commitment.
We confirm what matters before serious decisions are made, for attorneys, boards, founders, family offices and senior counsel, when the cost of being wrong is large.
Our work
Business intelligence.
Most people hear “private investigator” and think of criminal cases. In our work, the more accurate term is business intelligence.
The questions we answer are the ones standard background checks and public-records searches miss: the unexplained gap in an executive’s history, the regulatory action at a small firm that never made the news, the litigation that was settled and sealed, the reputation known to the right twenty people but never written down. These things can be found when the right work is done.
Services
Three kinds of work.
01
Due Diligence
Verification of people, companies and counterparties ahead of an investment, acquisition, appointment or partnership. We find what is material, what is peripheral and what still needs confirming.
02
Asset & Background Research
Lawful research into professional history, holdings, affiliations and records. It goes past the database report to the facts that bear on your decision.
03
Litigation Support
Fact-finding for counsel before and during a dispute: witnesses, history, prior proceedings and the record behind a claim, delivered in a form counsel can use.
How we engage
Quiet by design.
Confidential
Contained from the start.
Our discipline is fact-finding, relevance and containment. Reports are written for the client, not for distribution.
By referral
Referral or introduction.
We take engagements by referral or direct introduction, so every matter begins with a known party.
NDA first
Scope in writing.
A non-disclosure agreement comes before substantive discussion. Scope is agreed in writing in advance, so both sides know exactly what will be done.
Black Ridge conducts lawful investigative work only. We do not provide legal, advisory or strategic services.
Begin
Start with a short introduction.
Tell us who you are, who referred you and the general nature of the matter. Specifics can wait until an NDA is in place.
