Nos domaines d’intervention

INDICO-Intelligence offers tailored support to its clients in the following areas: help in securing clients’ investments and development projects, assisting compliance activities, preventing and investigating fraud, and conducting competitive intelligence. INDICO-Intelligence supports its clients through litigation and dispute situations.

Supporting
strategic decisions

Do you have a joint venture, M&A or partnership?

REPUTATIONAL RISK DUE DILIGENCE – PROFILE VERIFICATIONS

  • Collection and analysis of public data
  • Cross-referencing and in-depth interviews within the subjects’ domain
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Due Diligence

Problem

The client, an investment fund, was considering an equity investment in a family-owned company with the aim of expanding the geographic coverage of one of its portfolios. While due diligence on the company was fairly advanced and reasonably satisfactory, the client wanted to ensure that there were no issues regarding the management of the key executive and partner, who was expected to remain involved in the envisioned ‘build-up’.

What we did

Our research in the local press identified several disputes involving the seller’s liability, both in the context of his core business linked to the target company of the investment fund, and in related activities. In both cases there were violations of existing regulations.

Result

These alerts did not constitute sufficient reason to abandon the deal. However, they allowed the client to anticipate the necessary upgrade of the company’s internal procedures and to recognise the need to limit the seller to a non-operational role in the ‘build-up’.

Do you want to understand a sectoral environment or map influence networks?

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE – DECISION-MAKING ECOSYSTEM MAPPING

  • Screening and analysis of stakeholders
  • Targeted interviews within the relevant areas
  • Deciphering organisational and decision-making patterns
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Group mapping

Problem

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, many businesses benefited from government support measures, to mask a situation that was perhaps already compromised even before a sudden halt in the economy. Before accepting a debt restructuring for a group of companies affected by this crisis, our client requested an analysis of the actual situation as they did not have all the desired information or the latest information on the group in question.

What we did

Our research in public data sources firstly enabled us to update the organisational structure of the group of companies and highlight changes, which the client had not been made aware of. In tandem, research conducted on the financial situation of the group’s main entities led us to uncover a greater level of debt than had been presented to the client, who had visibility only on their own commitments.

Result

Based on our analysis, the client concluded that the group of companies did not have the capacity to meet the terms of the debt restructuring being negotiated and was simply seeking to buy time. The client then adjusted their strategy and opted for litigation to protect their interests.

Prevention
and combatting
illegal activities

Facing fraud, corruption, conflicts of interest, collusions, unfair competition, data breaches, and money laundering

COMPLIANCE PROCESS EVALUATION – ALERT ANALYSIS

  • Management or integration of a multidisciplinary team of consultants
  • Interviews within the relevant departments
  • Search for external information not known to the organisation
  • Analysis and cross-referencing with financial and IT data
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Unfair competition

Problem

The client, a major wholesaler in its sector, found itself at risk by the entry into its market of a start-up offering an application designed to optimise the customer-seller relationship. Beyond its new digital offering, the new player took advantage of regulatory loopholes to reduce its costs compared to competitors who were subject to numerous constraints.

hat we did

We began to identify elements akin to unfair competition to help the client’s advisors organise their response to the start-up: legally, with a complaint for unfair competition, and regulatory, with alert actions directed at the relevant authorities.

Result

Our work allowed us to clarify the way in which the start-up had developed and we were able to identify commercial practices as well as marketing approaches that the client’s advisors deemed questionable.

Support in
dispute situations

Are you considering legal action, an arbitration, or needing to enforce a judgement?

LEGAL ACTION SUPPORT – ASSET TRACING

  • Search for compelling evidence and leads to strengthen your case
  • Profiling individuals to establish the best recovery or negotiation strategy
  • Identification of seizable assets for debt recovery
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LITIGATION SUPPORT

Problem

The client, a distribution company, was accused by one of its industrial suppliers. The supplier alleged that the client had unilaterally and abruptly terminated their contract, putting the supplier at risk economically, even though certain product lines had been developed specifically at the client’s request.

What we did

Our research revealed that the development of the so-called “specific” products supposedly ordered by the client, predated what the supplier claimed. Furthermore, our analysis of the companies within the supplier’s group revealed that a portion of the activity of the company affected by the contract termination had been diverted to another entity recently established. Finally, an independent analysis of the financial situation of the supplier’s group, which lacked transparency, highlighted that the decline in the results of the company affected by the contract termination was not as significant as its management alleged.

Result

These findings allowed the client to expose the manoeuvres of the opposing party and request from the judge that all financial data of the companies comprising the industrial group be included in the case file.

Would you like us to review your case?

We are at your disposal to discuss your issue and to determine the best way to address it, taking into account the context, concerns and available resources

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