Integrity Due Diligence
THIRD-PARTY COMPLIANCE SCREENING
Our team conducts third-party due diligence and prepares compliance screening reports that cover integrity aspects of business activities of legal entities and individuals worldwide, helping clients keep track of their counterparties’ sanctions compliance, follow anti-corruption regulation guidelines, and adhere to third-party due diligence policies.
COSA’s compliance reports replace or complement automated checks that are made via subscription databases often used for quicker screening. They remain fast but are much more accurate, detailed, and reliable than an automated check.
ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE
OSINT & HUMINT
Enhanced Due Diligence gives you an in-depth understanding of a subject’s background and its ecosystem, which protects you and your organisation from the possible toxic effect of untrustworthy partners, keeps you safe from fraudulent activities, and enables you to build trust based on information. EDD provides an in-depth understanding of various issues in context, which is the key difference from the Compliance Screening approach.
COSA analysts prepare sophisticated enhanced due diligence reports involving multilingual research, using public domain sources, document retrieval, as well as open and subscription‑based database analysis. Enhanced due diligence reports include interviews with relevant sources, as well as assessments based on our own analysis and country knowledge.
PRE-M&A INTEGRITY DUE DILIGENCE
Pre-M&A Due Diligence is aimed at preventing the transfer of risks from an acquisition target to the buyer and vice versa. This involves thorough integrity due diligence with a focus on reputation, finance, and legal aspects.
COSA also advises the seller on compliance matters requiring improvement, and helps them to understand the criteria expected to be met by the buyer within the M&A due diligence procedure.
SUPPLY CHAIN & TRADE DUE DILIGENCE
Understanding all the elements of your supply chain globally is crucial amid the geopolitical turbulence, stronger sanctions regimes, lack of control over human rights adherence, and a growing number of toxic elements in the international business and financial system today. Supply chain due diligence is a solution that keeps your organisation safe and the business environment cleaner while conducting international transactions.
PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENING
COSA assists the world’s best employers with pre-employment screening procedures, helping them make sure of their future employees’ integrity, trustworthiness, and ethical conduct.
The pre-employment screening procedure includes not only a high-quality investigation into a candidate’s reputation, but consent processing and documents verification as well.
IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP BACKGROUND CHECKS
Whether it is citizenship by investment or a common immigration procedure, advising your clients on such matters requires knowing who you are dealing with in order to comply with relevant AML regulations and to preserve your reputation and the integrity of the system.
