INVESTIGATIVE DUE DILIGENCE
INVESTMENT
INVESTIGATIONS
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Any large-scale investment or substantial lending activity puts your company’s future on the line. Our signature BackTrack Report can enhance the scope and quality of your investigative due diligence, allowing you to make better, safer decisions.
We’ve all heard stories about the days when business deals were forged on trustworthy reputations and firm handshakes. If there was any lingering doubt, the recent Wall Street shakeups confirmed that those days are dead and gone.
Today, when participating in any large-scale investment or major lending activity it’s essential that you know the background and character of entities and individuals you’re dealing with. While no amount of research is entirely predictive of the future, our industry-leading due diligence investigations can help you decide when to move ahead and when to steer clear.
We help a broad range of clients investigate:
Alternative Investment Funds
Large Scale Investments or Loans
Alternative Investment Funds
The finance sector is experiencing widespread fallout from the deceit and greed of fund managers like Sam Israel, Bernie Madoff, Arthur Nadel, Paul Greenwood and Danny Pang. The message is indelible: You need to conduct proper due diligence before allocating to alternative investment funds.
Since 1993, we have investigated more than 5,500 fund managers. Our founder, Randy Shain, is a noted expert in the niche who wrote the seminal book: Hedge Fund Due Diligence: Professional Tools to Investigate Hedge Fund Managers.
Whether you’re planning to invest in a hedge fund, fund of hedge funds, private equity fund or real estate fund, our investigation process and resulting BackTrack Report provide you with the intimate and timely details you need to help you make healthy investment decisions and avoid painful mistakes.
To learn more, download an overview of BackTrack vs. The Data Dumps.
Large Scale Investment or Loans
Committing large amounts of capital to a private or public company can be a risky endeavor. The BackTrack Report helps you learn valuable information about a company and its senior executives before you invest.
Whether you’re a venture capital firm providing seed stage funding, a private equity firm looking to acquire an established company or an investment bank planning a merger or an IPO, it’s imperative – and, in the case of IPOs, legally required - that you investigate the backgrounds of the target’s senior executives. Investing in proper investigative due diligence today will help you avoid the headache and expense of dealing with angry investors, stakeholders and lawyers tomorrow.
If you’d like to learn more, you can download an overview of BackTrack vs. The Data Dumps.
WHO WE HELP
Learn about our work with:
Investment Banks
The BackTrack Report has a long and proven track record of helping the world’s top investment banks make informed investment, lending and hiring decisions.
Through our extensive investigation process, we work with your team members on mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. We also help alternative investment and private banking divisions protect firm and client money by examining the background of fund managers.
Whether your firm has a large global presence or serves a small regional market, you’ll improve your bottom line, and avoid costly missteps, by gaining in-depth knowledge about the people and entities you’re doing business with, thinking of doing business with or considering for a senior executive position.
Funds of Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers, Endowments,
Foundations, Consultants
The recent hedge fund blowups have made it crystal clear that you can’t rely on public perceptions and casual inquiries about hedge fund managers when engaging in an alternative investment program. The well-being of your business or organization rests on the quality of the information you obtain through investigative due diligence.
Having investigated more than 6,000 fund managers for institutional investors around the world, First Advantage is a recognized expert in the field of hedge fund due diligence. Tapped by a major publisher for his experience and expertise, founder Randy Shain recently wrote a book on the subject that’s become an industry lodestar.
Private Equity Firms
In the private equity marketplace, you can’t build and sustain your business or its reputation on 20-20 hindsight.
Our investigative due diligence services help you make sound decisions at all stages of the investment process, from seed funding through initial public offering.
In many cases, our background investigations have uncovered information about subject executives and their firms that justified radically changing deal terms, to our clients’ significant benefit.
Law Firms
Today, law firm clients are more discerning than ever. It takes top service and results to sustain their loyalty and gain repeat and referred business.
We have worked with securities-focused law firms on a variety of investment-related matters, including pre-IPO work, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and hedge fund investments.
When you engage us to conduct investigative due diligence in any, or all of, these matters, your clients come away with the best possible information on which to base their business strategy and decisions.
Contact us for more information about our comprehensive investigative due diligence services. You can also request a sample copy of the BackTrack Report and refer to frequently asked questions (FAQS) about our process and services.