This service exists because most serious losses do not come from unknown threats. They come from partners, counterparties, and vendors who were trusted too quickly.
A partner, counterparty, or vendor can look legitimate on paper and still expose an organisation to fraud, regulatory breaches, financial loss, or long-term reputational damage. This service is designed to identify those risks before they turn into incidents.
The work brings together partner risk investigation, counterparty risk investigation, and vendor risk investigation into a single, disciplined review. It focuses on how third parties actually operate, not how they present themselves. The aim is to surface hidden risks, inconsistencies, and patterns that are commonly missed by basic checks.
This service is widely used in third-party risk investigation, third-party risk assessment services, and counterparty due diligence, particularly during onboarding, procurement, and periodic reviews. It also supports vendor due diligence services, vendor management due diligence, and partner due diligence in environments where failure is not an option.
The outcome is a clear, evidence-based view of third-party risk that allows organisations to disengage, escalate, or put controls in place before damage occurs.
What Our Investigators Checks and Validates
Avignon Global investigators approach this work the same way experienced third party due diligence providers and Corporate Intelligence Consultants do: assuming that risk is often concealed, fragmented, or deliberately misrepresented.
The investigation typically looks into:
- Third-party due diligence, including counterparty background check, vendor background check, and partner background check, based on corporate records and verifiable sources rather than declarations
- How partners, counterparties, and vendors actually conduct business, including operating behaviour relevant to supplier due diligence
- Ownership and control changes that may indicate hidden influence or exposure, including indicators relevant to a focused corporate asset search
- Vendor risk assessment and supplier risk investigation, with attention to continuity risk, integrity failures, and dependency issues
- Weaknesses or gaps in the vendor due diligence process, including incomplete disclosures and inconsistencies that often precede fraud
- Adverse media, disputes, litigation, and enforcement actions linked to company fraud investigation or business fraud investigator assessments
- Issues requiring escalation or containment through corporate internal investigation, compliance action, or governance review
This is the type of work often triggered after a problem has surfaced. The difference here is that it is applied before exposure becomes loss.