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Our core competency is investigating or, in plain terms, research.

How Faire Sans Dire can help you

Whenever you or your business is about to change reliance on another third party be that a member of staff, a supplier and a web-site support service or other party where there is a significant risk that if things went wrong you could suffer financially Faire Sans Dire can help you avoid the costly pitfalls by providing the following services:

1.      Undertaking background checks on individuals and businesses

2.      Doing background checks on proposed joint venture partners or suppliers

3.      Undertaking pre-acquisition and pre-divestment background checks

4.      Advising on your own or supplier web-sites for vulnerabilities and risks

5.      Providing support to your senior management facing private dilemmas

Similarly Faire Sans Dire can assist you when things have already gone wrong by:

1.      Undertaking research or investigation of those parties such as suppliers or employees whom you were already placing reliance upon but now have causes for concern.

2.      Undertaking research into and assessing the vulnerabilities and risks if you are concerned about the degree of reliance you have placed on any web-site (including in particular your own) for transactional activities etc.

Benefits for you

The benefits to our clients who take on our services are that they usually obtain an edge over those third parties with whom they were engaged with. For example:

1.      Our services would diminish your risks in terms of placing unwarranted reliance on third parties whose interests were not aligned to your own (eg staff intent on wrongdoing, suppliers who pretended they could meet standards they had never achieved before etc).

2.      Serious questionable matters may be identified by us thus enabling you to pre-empt the consequences of entering into a doomed arrangement (eg with an individual who had a record as a serial extortionist of businesses with threats of employment tribunal proceedings).  

3.      We might discover a fact that provided fresh cause for legal action or substantiate facts that were hitherto unknown to support your existing claims (eg where a supplier had let you down badly at considerable cost).

4.      Less serious but nonetheless questionable matters might be identified by us which you would be able to take advantage of. Prior to entering into or renewing a contract you could get your solicitors to include warranties, representations and conditions precedent not originally even contemplated (eg to cover against known but undisclosed conflicts of interest).

5.      By using our web-based services you could avoid placing reliance on vulnerable web-sites which prima facie appeared sound and depending upon the circumstances you could respond along the lines suggested above or select an alternative supplier.

For a fuller explanation of our services please visit www.fairesansdire.org or call Bill Fairclough.