Posts from this author on FCPA third-party vetting, EDD, sanctions screening, and onboarding international counterparties.
A short, jargon-free guide to FCPA third-party vetting: when the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act applies to your brokers / agents / consultants, what the 16 red flags actually look like, and the difference between a one-off compliance check and a monitored program.
A side-by-side of the data sources, freshness model, and update cadence for sanctions screening — and why "more lists" is not the same as "better screening".
Most PE funds run KYC on the GP and the target. The intermediaries — placement agents, broker-dealers, local consultants — slip through. Here is when that is fine, when it is dangerous, and where to start.
A clean shell company is not a clean entity. The hard part of due diligence is the people behind the legal wrapper — UBOs, controlling shareholders, board directors. Vetting only the entity is the canonical false-clean.