Counterparty verification and due diligence
Before you ship anything or pay anything, one question decides everything else: is this company what it says it is. We answer it locally, in the counterparty’s own jurisdiction and language.
What it covers
Existence, registration status, ownership structure and whether the person you are dealing with can bind the company. Ownership matters for screening as much as for enforceability.
Filed accounts where available, payment behaviour, and any insolvency or enforcement history. A counterparty that cannot pay is worse than none, because you find out after shipping.
A pattern of supplier or customer disputes tells you what to expect before you join the list.
Against the applicable lists, covering ownership as well as the entity. Mandatory, and run before any engagement opens rather than as an afterthought.
For trades of any size, one of us goes. A visit answers questions the paperwork does not raise — whether the premises match the claimed volume, whether the operation is what it says.
What you get
- Written report with findings against each check
- Photographic record where a site visit is included
- A clear recommendation: proceed, proceed with conditions, or do not
- Screening result documented for your own compliance file
Fixed fee, agreed before we start. Scaled to depth — a desk check and a full audit with a site visit are different pieces of work.