Checkmate Strategic Services LLC handles a broad range of inquiries designed to protect companies from internal and external threats, financial loss, reputational damage, and legal liability. Information gathered in the course of an investigation might also provide leverage for negotiations.
Examples of corporate investigations include:
- Due Diligence Research – Assess the background, integrity, and reputation of a company or individual before mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, or major contracts. Review company ownership structures to reveal hidden stakeholders, discover litigation history or past regulatory compliance, assess financial health, evaluate reputation and media coverage, or identify political exposure.
- Pre-Employment Background Checks – Scrutinize potential hires, executives, or business partners to mitigate potential risks. Checks could include criminal history, involvement in civil litigation, verification of past employment verification or education credentials, and/or social media behavior. Even more information might be available with a permissible purpose and signed acknowledgement by the individual undergoing background checks.
- Employee Misconduct – Identify fraud, theft, workplace policy violations, contract compliance or conflicts of interest within your company. Depending on the situation, the investigation could include undercover work or surveillance to identify issues including embezzlement or accounting manipulation, kickback schemes or bribery, unauthorized use of company resources, time theft or moonlighting.
- Competitor intelligence – legally gather information on competing businesses to enhance your operations.
- Corporate Espionage Investigations / Intellectual Property Protection – Protect trade secrets and proprietary information from competitors or insiders using methods such as technical surveillance or counter-surveillance sweeps (TSCM), analysis of suspect communications or employee movements.