Latin America
Risk Assessment and Security - Latin America/Indonesia/Russia
Diligence was approached regarding the provision of Intelligence and support to a leading US Law Firm which had been engaged to conduct a global investigation. The Law Firm wished to mitigate the perceived risk to employees of deployments to a variety of ‘challenging’ environments such as Central America, West Africa, North Africa, Indonesia, Russia and Central Asia. Diligence provided a bespoke service that considered the particular threat in a given period and issued reports to the Law Firms’ traveling employees advising on conduct, places to avoid and situational awareness. In consultation with the firm, Diligence provided Companion Travelers where the potential threat justified a more robust risk-management approach. These Companion Travelers were discreet and experienced intelligence professionals with current and relevant knowledge of the environment in question who were able to provide invaluable insight and assistance. The service was deemed an outstanding success by the client. Its employees were able to undertake their work confident in the knowledge that they were well cared for and were appreciative of the standard of employee care and consideration demonstrated by their employer.
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 requirements 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 into potentially hostile situations.