In today's ever-changing business world, corporations continuously find themselves involved in one or more transactions, ranging from mergers/divestitures, joint ventures, lending arrangements, corporate financial restructurings, hiring of key executives, or virtually any other type of business transactions. These situations will most certainly require the disclosure and verification of specified information by one or more parties to the transaction. To the extent that such disclosures are false, misleading, inadequate or incomplete, the transaction could suffer, which could lead to embarrassment, financial difficulties, loss of licensing or even criminal sanctions.

 

Corporate intelligence is necessary in order to make sound business decisions, and to comply with requirements imposed by state and federal regulators. Corporate decision makers require timely and comprehensive investigations to verify the "facts" given to them by individuals, companies, and lending sources with whom they do business.

In complex transactions, the due diligence process can involve a team of lawyers and accountants to conduct financial and transactional reviews, and USSC, Inc. investigators to confirm the integrity, reputation, and professional background of individuals, companies and purported facts. The verification of such information, increasingly to be found in countries outside the United States, requires the investigative prowess and contacts that USSC, Inc. can bring to bear.

We urge clients to include USSC, Inc. investigators in the due diligence team for the specific purpose of confirming the integrity and reputation of the individuals on the opposite side of the table.