BUSINESS INVESTIGATIONS & VETTING NEW BUSINESS CLIENTS
Are you acquiring a new business or partner?
Are late invoice payments hurting your business?
Our team of experts can help you make more informed business decisions.
Business Investigations and Credit Reports – Vetting New Business Clients – Business Credit Risk. Do you provide services to other companies? Have you conducted a due diligence investigation? Minimize your business risk through comprehensive vetting of potential clients. Our professional due diligence investigations provide crucial insights into prospective clients’ financial health and creditworthiness, helping you make informed decisions before extending credit or entering business relationships. Our thorough business credit analysis encompasses comprehensive credit history evaluation, financial health assessment, civil litigation history review to identify previous legal disputes and judgments, asset verification, financial stability confirmation, analysis of payment patterns, and evaluation of corporate relationships. With over 77 million Americans holding debt in collections, protecting your business from payment defaults is crucial. Historical data shows that past credit behavior strongly indicates future payment reliability. Through our detailed investigative process, we uncover critical information about potential clients’ financial obligations, legal history, and payment patterns—enabling you to identify red flags before they become costly problems. Our investigative services empower you to make data-driven decisions about extending credit, identify high-risk clients before entering agreements, protect your business from potential payment defaults, reduce exposure to civil litigation, and maintain healthy cash flow through better client selection. Partner with us to implement a robust client vetting process that protects your business interests and supports sustainable growth. Let our expertise in business investigations guide your client acceptance decisions and minimize your exposure to financial risk.
Executive – Expert Witness – Consultant CV – Business Partner
When litigation overshadows conversations between opposing counsels and their prospective clients, each counselor must ask if there is any information “out there” that our counselors don’t know. Are there undisclosed conflicts of interest? Misrepresentation of assets owned or controlled? Deceit? At Stryker Investigation Service, we have a great deal of knowledge and understanding about gathering evidence and establishing facts to help executives and counsel decide which courses of action best protect people, assets, and reputations.
What does it really mean when an investigator says that they are going to do a background investigation on a person and track down all the relevant documents “on the public record”? Here is a list of the various public documents that you should expect from your investigator when investigating a person.
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- College or university enrollment
- Graduation information
- Criminal behavior
- Civil litigation
- Corporate affiliations
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- Securities and Exchange Commission filings
- Property records
- Liens and judgments
- UCC filings
- Bankruptcy records
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- Media mentions
- Social media profiles
- Driving record
- Security/terrorism sanctions
- Public Complaint Boards
Mergers and Acquisitions – M&A
Our investigators have performed quality due diligence reports for key stakeholders, presidents, partners, and suppliers. Due diligence is essential to any potential business investment, merger, or acquisition (M&A) investigation. They are used to confirm financial viability, debt commitments, and facts as they are represented, thus ferreting out any threats, misrepresentation, or omitted civil litigation history. Concluding with a comprehensive report that examines critical information that may directly impact a buyer’s decision to merge, make a purchase, or withdrawal from the deal. Whether you are onboarding, a new business partner, or you’re working on purchasing a new business, our team of experts can help you make more informed business decisions.
We can assist you in obtaining company information, provide you with a business credit rating, payment history, legal filings, and UCC filings for credit, and ultimately offer a recommended credit amount based on the company’s economic resources and ability to pay. No vetting process is going to be 100% accurate, but then again, this will give you a better chance to manage risk, control losses, and avoid a nightmare.
If your company develops a bad reputation, top performers may leave when they realize things are going wrong. There’s no shame in turning away business. No matter who you are or what you do, a bad client can do more damage to your company than just not paying their bill.
We offer a full suite of solutions, including business credit, risk management, compliance, data, and analytics. Our reports provide financial insights, including business credit scores and important business information for your customers. You can access details on more than 15 million U.S. businesses and 1 million Canadian businesses, including privately owned, small, or hard-to-find companies.
EXPERT WITNESS EXPERIENCE
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The difference between them (other agencies) and us is that Stryker’s founder is a “Designated Expert Witness” for Asset Search Investigations and their permissible purpose in Comerica vs. Reid in relation to “the proper legal means to acquire non-public detailed information on the debtor’s stocks bonds, bank accounts in conjunction with investigative searches.” These days, it seems like everyone proclaims to be an expert in something. However, when it comes to court cases, who qualifies as an expert witness? Experts are qualified according to several factors, including but not limited to, the number of years they have practiced in their respective field, and work experience related to the case. They may be called as upon as consultants to a case and also used to give testimony at trial. However, not everyone can qualify as an “expert,” and not all types of expert testimony may be permitted. State and federal rules of evidence are set about expert witnesses, depending on whether your case is in state or federal court.
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Expert witness rules vary by jurisdiction. See State Civil Procedure Rules. In federal courts, expert witness testimony is governed by Article VII of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
TYPES OF BANK ACCOUNTS WE LOCATE
FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Stryker would like to caution potential clients with this warning. There is a big difference between the terms “asset search investigation” and “financial investigation.” These are two completely different investigations requiring different professional experts and skill sets.
An asset is an economic resource. Anything tangible or intangible that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have positive economic value is considered an asset. As such, an asset search investigation is relatively easy to conduct, as the majority of Tangible Assets; (fixed) and are documented in public records. Though Tangible Assets; (liquid) are not a matter of public record and require a permissible purpose to conduct a search.
On the other hand, a financial investigation is a completely different investigation. At its simplest, a financial investigation tries to determine where the money comes from, how it moves, and how it is used. Also known as forensic accounting, this type of investigation is often crucial when dealing with corporate investigations, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, dishonest employees and can be associated with criminal charges. Investigators analyze all documents that show the paper trail of events involving money with the primary objective of documenting the movement of money.
Tracing funds and activities within companies and across jurisdictions presents complex challenges to which our experts apply their forensic investigative abilities. Stryker’s team provides financial investigative expertise for class actions, civil litigation, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and white-collar criminal matters.
Law Citations:
Georgia Code Title 53. Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates | California Code, Probate Code -Division 6. Wills and Intestate Succession 6100-6806
Federal Statute: Title III, Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA), 15 USC, §§1671 et seq. / Code of Federal Regulations: 29 CFR Part 870 / Explanatory Brochures and Regulatory Materials Online: www.dol.gov/whd, www.wagehour.dol.gov / U.S. Wage and Hour Division: Fact Sheet #30 – The Federal Wage Garnishment Law, Consumer Credit Protection Act’s Title III (CCPA) / Field Operations Handbook – 02/09/2001, Rev. 644, Chapter 16, Title III – Consumer Credit Protection Act (Wage Garnishment)
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