Cross-border investigation coordination

What international coordination covers

We verify the existence and real activity of companies, the structure of groups, the identity of beneficial owners where registers make it accessible, and the effective presence of a business in a given territory. We also cross-check information drawn from different jurisdictions, including where the sources contradict each other.

Our work relies on lawful sources: commercial registers, official publications, accessible court decisions, press, documents provided by the client, observation in public space. We do not seek information covered by banking or professional secrecy, and we set aside sources whose origin cannot be established, even where a register is nominally public.

How a cross-border mandate is organised

Geneva acts as the coordination point: a single contact, a consolidated scope, one timetable. We identify the jurisdictions that genuinely matter and set aside research with no bearing, which limits both cost and delay. At any point you know which countries are covered, and why.

Checks are carried out locally, directly where local law permits, or through duly mandated local correspondents bound by the same confidentiality rules. Each step complies with the legal framework of the country concerned, including its restrictions on access to information and its own administrative delays.

What you receive

A consolidated report with country-by-country annexes. The hierarchy of sources is explicit: official register, document provided, open source, observation. Divergences between jurisdictions are flagged rather than smoothed over, and points that cannot be verified are named as such. Each annex points back to the check it came from.

The report is written in French or English as you require, with original documents and translations where needed. A debrief session covers the points that condition your decision, in the working language agreed with you. Where a point cannot be closed, it is said plainly rather than left to inference.

Legal framework and data transfers

Each jurisdiction applies its own rules: access to registers, data protection, the standing of evidence, the limits of private investigation. We adapt the method accordingly and abandon a check where it is not lawful locally, even where it would be technically possible, including before a court or tribunal.

Personal data collected is limited to what the mandate requires, held on a restricted basis and transferred within a compliant framework. Nothing is disclosed to a third party without your written consent, and no data is kept beyond the period required, in line with the retention rules agreed at the outset.