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General

Infortal has earned the trust and loyalty of it’s clients by stepping into some of the most complex global M&A deals. We find key information and deep-level due diligence information that other companies cannot provide, helping you to mitigate risks, protect your board’s fiduciary requirements and focus on your core business success.

All businesses face varying degrees of risk which span operational risks, financial risk, and a wide variety of legal issues. Together these risks may create adverse business conditions and ultimately affect the business reputation of the company both in terms of the general public and within the business community.

Prevent unnecessary and predictable risks to your organization through effective deep-level business due diligence.

Mitigating these risks enable your business to protect it’s primary revenue generation, protect your Board of Directors and focus on your core business objectives.

Traditional risk management approaches are insufficient in today’s ever-changing markets. Deep level due diligence enables you to minimize risks from SOX and FCPA non-compliance, and reduce transactional risks with international business partners and their executives.

Click here for FCPA Compliance, FedWatch Alerts™ and PEP list reviews.

How do you discover enough information about your trading partners? How do you find go beyond traditional legal due diligence to find undisclosed information, business discrepancies, and reveal hidden data?

Infortal provides two levels of Business Due Diligence reports to address M&A activities, new international business partnerships and verification of existing business partnerships: Further evaluation of key executives and top management teams can be checked through Infortal’s deep level Executive Due Diligence.

You can select from any of the following Business Risk Mitigation specialties:

• FCPA compliance
• FedWatch Alerts™
• GlobalWatch Alerts™
• Business Due Diligence
  • Business Reputation
  • Business Intelligence
  • Transaction evaluation
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Political influence issues
  • Regional Business Scalability
  • Undisclosed critical information
  • History of criminal & civil lawsuits
• Executive Due Diligence
  • Undisclosed information
  • Business Reputation & issues
  • Criminal, civil & bankruptcy history
• Executive Vulnerability Assessments
• Business Intelligence Reports
• Facility Audits
• Corporate Anti-terrorism Planning

FCPA Compliance:

Businesses must survive and also thrive in uncertain conditions, risky markets, increased and dispersed global trade environments with many variables outside of the corporation’s immediate control. Yet international business often requires broad-based risks. How do you protect your business interests, continue trading, expand your international capabilities and still remain compliant with increasing trade regulations such as the US Patriot Act and FCPA?

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act FCPA (1997) makes it unlawful to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business.

The USA Patriot Act (2001) is designed to intercept and obstruct terrorist entities and prevent international money-laundering activities by imposing due diligence requirements on activities involving foreign financial institutions, and to prevent financial activities involving corrupt foreign officials and private banking entities.

Additionally as part of enhanced Know Your Customer initiatives, banks and financial institutions must also check for Politically Exposed Persons (PEP’s) with whom business affiliation may cause embarrassment or even financial ruin. Risk assessment and business due diligence programs are designed to detect a myriad of issues related to money-laundering, bribery, corruption and undue political influence in international trade. Effective risk assessment will help your organization to control risk exposure, reduce risk-prone activities, and enable your company to mitigate risk through it’s compliance efforts.

Infortal offers a phased approach to assist clients in mitigating exposure under the USA Patriot Act, the FCPA and exposure from Politically Exposed Persons (PEP’s).