We provide our clients with hard-to-reach information and intelligence. They use it to initiate good commercial relationships, resolve disputes, recover funds, preserve reputation and protect investments.

We regularly use:

Well-informed individuals in the subjects’ commercial and social environments
Former or current business partners, colleagues, advisors, clients and creditors of the subjects
Sources in the employ or circle of the subjects’ partners, advisors, clients, creditors, service providers and facilitators
Official and informal consultation with government departments and agencies
Local media reports and a wide variety of documentary sources

Due diligence and reputational surveys
Before entering a trading or credit relationship, or making an investment, it is clearly essential to know with whom you are dealing - their abilities, associations, practices and background. This is even more pressing when operating in emerging markets or otherwise opaque environments. We help clients as discretely, creatively and exhaustively as possible. We say what we know, what we think and assume, and what we have concluded - and are always clear to distinguish between them.

Whether screening local executive candidates or identifying the reputation, associations and sources of wealth of a major consortium partner, we can access the best-placed sources to reassure the client that their future partner is of high integrity, or alert the client if they are not.

Dispute resolution and litigation support
IRM has supplied intelligence and evidence in high-profile and low-profile cases that has been crucial for companies, creditors and litigators engaged in dispute.

The information we seek for our clients must be of practical value. We understand that information, depending on form, provenance and acquisition, be it documentary, informal or sworn testimony, should be usable in some or all of the following ways:

As leverage in negotiation
As submission to court
As signal of what formal applications might be made
As credible sworn testimony
As expert opinion
As intelligence of further information sources

Other services
As a corollary to these two core businesses, IRM also has extensive experience and success in crisis management and other intelligence operations. IRM helps clients protect their brand and other intellectual property, monitor competitor activities, and track assets.