Investment Verification in the Logistics Sector – UAE

It covers the ownership, management, legal, compliance and reputational position of the target as a single mandate. In practice that means corporate profiling and structure review, tracing beneficial ownership across the jurisdictions involved, intelligence on the key principals, litigation, insolvency and enforcement research, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening, and a review of the dependencies the business runs on. The scope is defined against your decision and confirmed in writing before work begins, rather than drawn from a fixed template.

Financial due diligence and audit examine the numbers and the records behind them. Intelligence-led review examines the people, structures, relationships and conduct that those records do not capture. The two are complementary and we recommend running both. A financial review will not ordinarily tell you that a supplier is connected to a shareholder, that a director holds an undisclosed appointment elsewhere, or that a claimed warehouse has no registered lease behind it. We do not issue audit opinions or valuations.

No. Screening databases are one source category among many, and a database match is treated as a lead rather than a finding. Our method combines corporate registries and official filings, court and insolvency records where lawfully accessible, regulatory publications, sanctions and PEP sources, licensed commercial information resources, open-source and adverse-media research, and client-supplied documents. Material findings are corroborated across independent sources and reviewed by a senior analyst before they appear in a report.

We reconstruct the ownership chain as far as lawfully accessible records allow. Free zone and offshore structures add layers, and it is common for a UAE entity to sit beneath a holding vehicle registered in another jurisdiction, so the work often spans several registries. Where a layer cannot be resolved from available sources, we report that openly as an information gap. No provider can guarantee the identification of a concealed interest, and we do not present an inference as a confirmed ownership finding.

It depends on the scope, the number of jurisdictions in the ownership chain and the accessibility of records in each of them. Timing is estimated at the scoping stage against your transaction calendar and confirmed in the engagement documentation. Where a deal is moving quickly, the work can be phased so that the findings most likely to affect the decision are reported first, with the remainder following.

We raise it as soon as it is established rather than holding it for the final report, because a finding that affects the transaction is only useful while you can still act on it. The report sets out what was found, the source it came from and how firmly it is supported, which is what your investment committee and legal advisers need in order to reprice, seek an indemnity or warranty, or withdraw. We provide the intelligence picture; the commercial and legal decision remains yours.

The engagement is confidential and the target is not approached unless you instruct it. Before work begins we assess purpose, proportionality, your authority, the jurisdictions involved and the lawful basis for each category of information, and the availability of a source is not by itself treated as a reason to use it. We operate from the Dubai World Trade Center under UAE data-protection requirements and, where relevant, other applicable regimes, with access restricted on a need-to-know basis. Information-security controls are structured with reference to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 principles; this is not a representation of certification unless confirmed in current corporate documentation.