Africa
Technical Services - Brazil/Nigeria/China
A leading US Law Firm approached Diligence regarding assistance in securing technical data from ‘hard to access’ situations such as high threat countries and hostile environments. The US Law Firm had been retained by a large multi-jurisdictional company with offices around the world. This firm was undertaking a review of certain procedures and practices and required that subsidiary companies provide data as requested. Diligence was able to provide in-house experts to both visit and recover data from the companies and countries in question in a fashion that was legally compliant with the requirement of any subsequent legal action. Diligence was also able to represent and analyse the data as required and instructed by the Law Firm as well as being able to advise what was possible and the extent to which data had been deliberately obscured. All of this was achieved by Diligence staff and in a fashion that did not put the Law Firm’s employees into potentially hostile situations.
Competitive Intelligence - West Africa
Diligence were approached by a major multi-national extractive industries conglomerate which wanted to understand the competitive landscape in West Africa with particular reference to a forthcoming governmental sell off of mining licenses.
Diligence, through well-placed contacts and through in house knowledge of the particular country and sector, was able to advise that a small number of individuals sitting in the margins of government were, in fact, in control of the tender process as part of a previously agreed power-sharing arrangement. As such, Diligence’s client was able to formulate and develop a strategy that ultimately resulted in successful securing a number of key licenses.