FILLING THE INFORMATION GAP
Providing independent opinions
Finding silent variables 

 

Opinion intelligence

 

Upon "Brexit" many firms thought on changing their EU headquarters

A larger American bank retained us to provide a qualified opinion about moving their EU hub from the UK to Brussels, Madrid, Frankfurt or Paris. While they already made. a decision the top management hired us to provide an qualified opinion. Our firm connected with retired industry experts who provided insights that resulted on changing their risk matrix and risk mitigation policies.

 

Partnering with an controversial entrepreneur

Our client had concerns about controversial entrepreneur who they wanted to partner with. Traditional due diligence checks found no formal accusations or convictions despite he had widespread media references about corruption in the construction industry. Our analysis provided an analysis of red flags and personal opinions from industry experts about his dealings. Our work resulted in the addition of legal safeguards through contract clauses.​

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Finding hidden burdens and "silent variables"

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Share price case Study: Uncovering Hidden Market Sentiment

The Challenge A global technology leader with operations in 45 countries commissioned a top-tier consulting firm to identify the variables impacting their share price. While the resulting report offered sound financial logic and reflected standard market dynamics, it failed to explain the persistent valuation gap.

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Our Approach: Discreet Intelligence Gathering Our firm was retained to conduct an independent assessment through discreet consultations with analysts at major investment and private banks. To ensure unfiltered honesty, we guaranteed the absolute anonymity of the participating entities and individuals.

 

The Findings: The "Conflict of Interest" Discount. The results were revelatory. We discovered that analysts were discounting the company's value based on qualitative factors they chose not to include in their official research notes. These omissions were driven by the banks' desire to maintain favourable relationships with the client to secure future roles in massive bond issuance operations and new equity offerings and capital raises.

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The Outcome By identifying these "silent" variables—items analysts considered critical but would never disclose directly to the company—we provided our client with the ground truth of their market position. This intelligence allowed the leadership team to address the specific, hidden concerns that were truly weighing on their valuation.

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Pharma company whistleblower investigation (USA/ Switzerland)

A US based pharma company started an internal investigation to verify alleged sexual harassment behaviour from top executives in Switzerland. Our confidential interviews revealed no sexual harassment was happening, however several employees appointed to large scale wholesale channel fraud.

 

Medical insurance company in Mexico

An insurance company implementing data analytics and AI retained us to conduct interviews with key employees to review their processes before starting a major digital transformation. Our interviews revealed bottle necks across many processes and found hidden losses across multiples processes of the company.

 

Conclusion: Avoiding the "Grey information gap" Trap

While verified and documented information is critical to assess risks and find new opportunities, the grey area of information and none-documented insights its a gap that once filled helps firms to know what documents, fornal analysis and methodologies and registers don´t show and its meaningful to make a decision.

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