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Understanding before acting
Short, precise pieces on methods, legal frameworks and the decisions private investigation can inform.
The Confidential Consultation: What Is Said, What Is Decided
A first meeting is neither a pitch nor a sale. It qualifies a request: object, feasibility, legal limits, scope, timeframe and cost, before any decision is taken.
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Corporate Investigations: Objectives and Method
Fraud, conflicts of interest, pre-contract checks: a useful internal investigation starts from a fact, documents its sources and stops where the company’s own decision begins.
Witness interviews: method before conviction
Building the chronology, questioning without steering the answers, recording faithfully what was said: a witness interview is worth what its written record is worth in the end.
Confidentiality in Private Investigations: The Discipline of Silence
Confidentiality is not a promise made in a presentation but a series of practical decisions: what is never collected, never circulated, and deleted at the right time.
International Investigations: What the Law Permits, and What It Does Not
An investigation that crosses borders does not cross the rules. Local licensing, data transfers and the use of evidence: the constraints to understand before instructing.
Understanding Due Diligence: Scope, Sources and Limits
Before an acquisition or an appointment, integrity due diligence checks people and reputations. What it covers, what it leaves out, and how to read the report you receive.
Family office due diligence: protecting the principal
Source of wealth, ownership chains, counterparty reputation: what a family office must verify, in which order, and how to keep discretion intact over the long term.
When to Instruct a Private Investigator
A factual dead end, a dispute that will not move, a doubt before signing: three situations where a private enquiry gives a verifiable answer instead of an instinct.
Choosing a Private Investigator in Geneva: What Actually Matters
A licence to operate, a documented method, verifiable discretion and a readable fee proposal: four plain requirements separate a professional from an opportunist. Here is how to check each.
GDPR and FADP: data discipline in private investigations
Legal basis, minimisation, retention and transfers: data protection rules do not restrain a private investigation, they are what makes its findings durable and admissible in practice.
Internal fraud: deciding well in the first 72 hours
Preserving evidence without contaminating it, separating the disciplinary track from the criminal one, and respecting the rights of the employee under suspicion: the first decisions in sequence.
Lawful asset tracing: what registers show and what only a court can obtain
Public registers, ownership chains, debt enforcement: what a lawful search can establish about a person’s assets, and what remains out of reach without a judicial decision.
Pre-employment screening in Switzerland: what may lawfully be checked
Diplomas, references, public registers, criminal records: what a Swiss employer may legitimately verify before signature, which sources are admissible, and what rights the candidate keeps throughout.
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