Business Investigation Services: Due diligence uncovers risks, brand value, assets, debts, negative media, and ensures the business aligns with your goals.Financial Transparency: It ensures you understand the company’s financial health, including debts, assets, revenue, and profitability. This helps avoid hidden liabilities. Merger and acquisition fully understand what you are acquiring. Conducting due diligence before buying another company is crucial. Reputation & Brand Value: Assessing customer reviews, market perception, and brand strength prevents you from acquiring a company with a damaged reputation.. Operational Due Diligence: helps you assess whether the company’s systems, supply chains, and workforce are stable and efficient. A business that appears successful on paper may have internal inefficiencies and high employee turnover. Financial Transparency: It ensures you understand the company’s financial health, including debts, assets, revenue, and profitability. This helps avoid hidden liabilities. Intellectual Property & Assets: Ensuring ownership of patents, trademarks, or proprietary technology protects your investment and prevents legal disputes.

• Reputational Due Diligence
• Operational Due Diligence
• Financial Due Diligence
• Intellectual Property & Assets Due Diligence
• Executives & Leadership Due Diligence

The executives and key decision-makers shape the company’s direction and reputation. If any of them have a history of fraud, misconduct, or unethical behavior, it could pose a significant risk to your business. Background checks on officers can uncover past lawsuits, regulatory violations, or questionable business practices. Officers play a key role in company culture and relationships. If they are toxic leaders or have a reputation for mismanagement, they could drive away key employees and customers after the acquisition. High executive turnover is often a red flag. 

Some industries require officers to hold specific licenses or certifications (e.g., financial services, healthcare). If an executive has past regulatory violations, their presence in leadership could result in fines or loss of business licenses. Overlooking corporate officers in due diligence can be a costly mistake. Their actions, reputation, and leadership directly impact the company’s success. Investigating them ensures you’re not inheriting hidden risks or making a deal that could backfire.

Valuing a corporation is a mix of objective financial analysis and subjective strategic assessment. It’s essential to use multiple valuation methods to get a well-rounded picture of the company’s true worth. By thoroughly assessing its financials, intangible assets, and market position, you can make an informed investment decision and negotiate the right price.

Red Flags That Can Lower Valuation

🚩 Declining revenue or profitability trends
🚩 High debt levels or poor cash flow
🚩 Pending lawsuits or regulatory violations
🚩 Loss of key customers or contracts
🚩 Employee dissatisfaction or high turnover

When considering significant business partnerships or acquisitions, our investigators conduct detailed reputation analyses of key executives and officers. This professional research uncovers negative media coverage, regulatory issues, problematic business associations, and ethical concerns that could impact your company’s reputation through association.

Our corporate intelligence services extend to comprehensive analysis of public perception, including systematic examination of negative business reviews, customer complaints, and social media sentiment. This detailed evaluation helps identify reputation vulnerabilities and potential public relations challenges before they affect your business relationships or brand value are part of the Business Investigation Services.

Beyond standard financial due diligence, Stryker Investigations provides the intelligence necessary to evaluate the intangible aspects of business relationships. Our professional investigators deliver actionable insights about potential partners’ business practices, corporate culture, and industry reputation that traditional financial analysis cannot reveal.

In addition to equitable remedies for judgment enforcement, background checks and investigations on business relationships officers, employees, and D&B (Duns and Bradstreet) company profiles, if available. When considering a business relationship, always conduct an independent verification to ensure you’re making a decision based on facts. The health and welfare of your business and your reputation deserve to be protected. Our comprehensive business investigation services provide critical intelligence for corporations of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups seeking to protect their interests. Specializing in business asset searches and pre-litigation due diligence, we deliver the actionable insights needed to make informed legal and business decisions in today’s complex commercial landscape. Our team combines decades of investigative experience with cutting-edge research methodologies to uncover the facts that matter most to your business objectives.

STRATEGIC PRE-LITIGATION ASSET SEARCH:

Before pursuing costly litigation, our thorough business asset searches assess the financial viability of potential legal actions through comprehensive examination of corporate structures and hidden financial resources. We meticulously uncover concealed commercial assets, identify detailed insurance policy information for personal injury cases, and evaluate the collectability of potential judgments through sophisticated financial analysis techniques. This critical pre-filing intelligence helps you determine if a case is economically worth pursuing and provides leverage during settlement negotiations. Our investigators have successfully located undisclosed business assets for countless clients, helping them avoid fruitless litigation while maximizing recovery in viable cases through strategic information gathering and analysis.

COMPREHENSIVE DUE DILIGENCE:

Protect your business interests with our thorough due diligence investigations that examine all aspects of potential business relationships before contractual commitments are finalized. Before entering significant business relationships, mergers, or acquisitions, our team conducts independent verification of all critical factors including operational history, undisclosed liabilities, and potential regulatory issues that could impact future performance. We provide detailed background investigations on business entities and their officers, comprehensive D&B company profiles with analysis of credit worthiness, and in-depth examination of financial stability and risk factors that could affect business continuity. Our clients rely on our exhaustive due diligence to reveal potential problems before they become costly mistakes, enabling confident decision-making based on complete information rather than selective disclosures from interested parties.

The health and reputation of your business deserve protection through professional investigative consulting that goes beyond surface-level information to reveal the complete picture. Let our expertise eliminate unknown variables from your business equation and provide the strategic advantage you need in today’s competitive marketplace, where information asymmetry can mean the difference between success and costly failure. Our business investigation services have helped countless organizations avoid problematic partnerships, enforce legitimate claims, and make sound decisions based on a thorough understanding of all relevant factors.

Business entities often possess significant economic resources that can be concealed during judgment enforcement efforts. Stryker Investigations Business Investigation Services specializes in locating these valuable business assets, from heavy machinery and construction equipment to transportation fleets and commercial real estate.

Our professional investigators conduct comprehensive searches for corporate economic resources, including bulldozers, excavators, and specialized construction equipment that represent substantial value. These high-dollar assets cannot be easily hidden yet are frequently overlooked during standard collection attempts.

Business transportation assets constitute another critical area of investigation. Our team locates commercial semi-trucks, corporate aircraft, marine vessels, and specialized vehicles that companies may attempt to conceal through complex ownership arrangements or strategic relocations across jurisdictions.

Warehouse facilities and inventory represent significant business value that judgment debtors may try to shield from creditors. Stryker Investigations identifies these concealed economic resources, documenting comprehensive inventory holdings and warehouse locations that provide substantial recovery potential for judgment enforcement actions.