Companies
The concept of FIDES DETECTIVES is to combine the ability and specific competence of investigators, researchers, technicians and experts of various sectors to construct a team which helps companies - from the small to the corporate one - and their legal and fiscal consultants, to protect their assets, know-how, reputation and image.
Main sectors of assistance
Due diligence
(the process of ensuring that an individual or entity - company, group or institution - is an appropriate and suitable partner for any juridical relationship or commercial transaction, merger, joint venture)
- Investigation on the background of companies, managers, possible business partners
- Investigations on financial reliability and reputation
- Investigations on partners and company connections (groups, trustee companies, trusts)
Financial investigations
(they are generally required when the relationship is already in pathological phase; credit ratings not respected, non-payment of supplies of goods and services, need to pass civil sentences of conviction or precautionary provisions of goods sequestration or in any other case where it is useful to demonstrate certain income, the existence of real estate and movable goods, company holdings and any item referable to the "obliged" person)
- Property and financial investigations
- Tracing of debtors
- Tracing of goods in Italy and abroad
- Offshore companies
Company investigations
(From simple incorrect behaviour to "white collar" crimes against businesses and corporations, to pursue either civil or criminal solutions requires specialist experience; our investigative professionals have years of experience and have worked on many complex assignments: from commercial frauds to partnership disputes, from escape of confidential information to anti-sabotage)
- Investigations on the treachery of competitors, partners, collaborators, managers and employees
- Investigations on infringement of secrecy and non-competition pacts
- Investigations on embezzlements, hypotheses of corruption and undue appropriation
- Investigation on different use of goods and commercial data
- Industrial security
- Industrial anti-sabotage
- Investigations on insider trading
- Investigations on internal thefts
- Investigations on contractual infringements (labour, agency, representation contracts etc.)
- Investigations on forging of trademarks and patents or industrial drawings
- Investigations on "parallel" importation.
Safety
(Investigation requests - for example for unauthorised intrusions, escape of information, industrial espionage, up to sabotage and acts of economic terrorism, with attacks, kidnapping, threats towards managers - often lead to an examination of the correct and adequate operation of the safety procedures inside the company, to a check on any illicit insertions or interceptions in telephonic and environmental communications via modem (so-called Improvements) and to a reconstruction of the routes and methods followed by the so-called informatic criminals, external or internal, finding the weak points, reinforcing the general safety of the company)
- Telephone and environmental debugging
- Advice and assistance