Investigations and Due Diligence

In today’s global markets where transactions happen with lightning speed, organizations need access to fast, accurate data about the individuals and companies with which they do business. A web search isn’t enough to identify potential risks and spot hidden opportunities.

From vetting a high-profile executive to locating criminal suspects to uncovering hidden assets or conducting private investigations, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides reliable insight. Our easy-to-use investigations and due diligence solutions help you protect your clients’ reputations and comply with regulatory requirements. They provide the information your clients need to make informed decisions regarding situations such as:

• Mergers and Acquisitions – Self-reported information from a prospective merger or acquisition company requires verification. Your clients need to be aware of potential risks, such as compliance issues or looming litigation. They should also thoroughly vet the C-suite executives as their reputations can have strong implications for your business. Corporate investigative information is critical to establishing value and making good decisions before moving forward with a deal.
• Vetting People and Organizations – When your client’s reputation and profits are on the line, they want to be sure they know the organizations and people with whom they do business. Our investigative due diligence solutions can help prevent a risky business deal or compliance issue by providing insight on entities, owners and their connections. Fully examine a potential vendor, customer, supplier or business partner, giving your client insights into whether they should proceed with the relationship or turn around and walk away.
• Vendors – Before your client enters into a business relationship with a company, they need to assess its financial stability, industry reputation and processes for regulatory compliance. Any red flags may be good reason to pump the brakes going forward. But vendor due diligence isn’t only necessary at the beginning of a relationship. Organizations and C-suite executives can change, making it necessary to continually monitor vendors throughout your client’s supply chain.
• Customer and Business Due Diligence – Vetting customers properly and thoroughly is critical to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) initiatives. Your clients need you to verify that their customers are who they say they are. They also need to know their customers don’t appear on any prohibited lists or have ties to any nefarious parties.

The internal and external threats that a business faces can be hard to see without the right tools. LexisNexis® Risk Solutions gives you the investigative and due diligence resources to bring risks to the surface, where they can be quantified, mitigated and avoided

Investigative research is time consuming. Boost efficiency with the right solutions. LexisNexis® Risk Solutions automates your investigative due diligence searches and delivers the answers you seek all in one place. We bring together the salient details in a way that’s easy to see and understand.

Whether you’re a large private investigation company or a small-to mid-sized firm, partnering with LexisNexis® Risk Solutions gives you access to robust data sets and solutions—enabling you to meet complex investigative and due diligence needs. We help you drastically improve efficiency while upholding your ethical and professional codes of conduct. When you accelerate your research and due diligence investigation process, you have more time to do what you do best—analyze the data and advise your clients.

Your analysis is only as reliable as the data you use. LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has robust data sets and repositories of business information. Use our solutions to gain a significant competitive advantage.

Here’s what is available from LexisNexis Risk Solutions:

• 28,000 licensed news sources around the world
• 45 billion public records
• 10,000 different data sources
• Public, private, regulated, emerging and derived data
• 130 million company profiles from 250+ licensed company databases

We also have features to help you make sense of the data in an instant. Our Relavint™
Link Analysis feature in Accurint® for Private Investigations, for example, offers a snapshot of the subject matter. A detailed visual diagram reveals and links all assets, licenses, associates, relatives and other connections. From there, you decide which details to investigate further.

Slash the time it takes to obtain critical information and conduct thorough investigations that support:

• Complex litigation cases
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Equity investment transactions
• Supply-chain due diligence
• Customer due diligence 

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions investigative tools are ideal for:

• Mid-to-large global private investigations firms
• Financial institutions and lenders
• Companies involved in underwriting
• Organizations involved in cross-border work