Fortress Global Investigations provides up to the minute, reliable intelligence and background checks, including USA Patriot Act and “Know Your Customer” compliance. These services range from standard pre-employment screening and database checks to extensive background investigations.   Our services are used to gather intelligence on both individuals and businesses, employees, clients, executives, acquisition candidates, vendors, witnesses, business partners and investors.

Deals that go wrong can often be avoided through appropriate investigative due diligence. Equally as important, and complementary to the traditional due diligence conducted by accounting and law firms, investigative due diligence conducted by a competent private investigations firm, such as Fortress Global Investigations, adds indispensable value in vetting potentially critical problems in corporate transactions.

Beyond the nuances of a contract or financial statement, investigative due diligence offers necessary added value to corporate due diligence. Our corporate investigations allow the client to receive access to vital, non-public data and resources and insight into murky data and questionable backgrounds. Investigative due diligence offers intelligence analysis from a forensic perspective, the evaluation of credibility and the uncovering of true intentions.

Why Is Investigative Due Diligence Necessary?

The current corporate transaction environment is fraught with landmines of potentially damaging information. Traditional due diligence can only go so far in accessing and gathering this intelligence. Only through efforts of experienced, professional private investigators, such as former FBI and CIA agents, can a company be assured that they are seeing past the paper to the potentially damaging hidden data. Through background checks, in-depth interviews, lead and connection development, credibility evaluations, surreptitious surveillance, accessing of secret or otherwise unavailable documents, and tapping into industry and government resources, private investigators can uncover the data a company needs to give them peace of mind.

Case Studies

A businessman, suspicious about his mother's new paramour, a quiet man 17-years her junior, engaged Fortress Global Investigations to conduct a complete background investigation on the subject.  Fortress Global Investigators and analysts discovered that the subject was arrested and charged many years earlier with the murder of his wife.  The charges were ultimately dismissed. Local news media searches and witness interviews indicated that the dismissal was due to lack of cooperation by the only eye-witness, his sister. Additionally, court record searches revealed that many years later a civil lawsuit by the subject ended unfavorably for him. The judge denied his claim for life insurance upon the death of his wife because he intentionally participated in his wife’s death. This evidence, records of multiple prior marriages and divorces and records of more recently committed petty crimes were instrumental in allowing the business man to successfully steer his mother out of the relationship.