Risk assessment and due diligence investigations

Before you get on the plane, you need to know how decisions are made and how the market really works – both in theory and in practice – in your target country and sector.

  • Who are the key figures?
  • What is their official mandate?
  • What do they really care about?
  • Do they have undeclared special interests that could affect their decisions?
  • Are they susceptible to bribes from your competitors?
  • And how far can you rely on your business partners to behave ethically

Control Risks’ suite of services ranges from the detailed country briefs available on our Country Risk Forecast online service to bespoke reports on individual companies and sectors.

Comprehensive third party and agent screening programmes

Control Risks implements and executes screening programmes of our client’s existing and potential third parties, agents or business partners on a global scale to ensure compliance with relevant anti-corruption legislation.

Examples of our work

Corruption risk assessment and prevention advice in Nigeria.

Control Risks helped an international energy company plan its entry into the Nigerian market.

Due diligence investigation of West African business partner.

Our client was planning a business relationship with a construction company and needed to know who the real owners were, and whether they were ‘politically exposed’.