Corporate Intelligence
Ownership structures, shell layers, undisclosed affiliates and real decision-makers behind the counterparty across your deal.
Deal & partner mapping
OSINT-led investigative intelligenceUncovering insights.
Uncovering insights.
Empowering decisions.
Varclen Group integrates corporate intelligence, enhanced due diligence and fraud analysis into one senior-led practice. Rigorous OSINT and meticulous investigative technique, applied to the decisions you cannot afford to get wrong.
Built for US businesses, executives, attorneys and investors in high-stakes situations.
Findings file — sampleIllustrative
- Matter
- Counterparty diligence — acquisition target
- Corporate layers mapped
- 4 entities across 3 jurisdictions
- Undisclosed affiliate
- Identified — related-party supplier
- Litigation history
- 2 unresolved commercial actions
- Adverse media
- Reviewed — 1 material item
Analyst conclusion
Structure inconsistent with disclosures. Recommend re-pricing the indemnity before signing.
Fictional sample content shown for illustration only.
- 72h
- Expedited preliminary signal
- 10 days
- Standard EDD turnaround
- 50 states
- US records coverage
- 100%
- Senior-analyst led
Capabilities
One integrated practice, not six disconnected vendors
Intelligence, diligence and fraud work draw on the same evidence. We run them under one senior analyst so nothing is lost in the handoff between firms.
Enhanced Due Diligence
Reputational, regulatory and litigation history on companies, funds and individuals — with the caveats stated, not buried.
Pre-close and pre-hire
Fraud Analysis
Transaction pattern review, invoice and vendor scheme detection, and asset tracing when money has already moved.
Loss containment
OSINT Collection
Disciplined open-source collection across registries, filings, courts, procurement data, media and the public web.
Our core discipline
Litigation Support
Witness and adversary background, judgment-collectability assessments, and evidence packages built for counsel.
Attorney-directed
Principal Vetting
Deep background on founders, GPs, board candidates and key hires before you hand them capital or authority.
Executive-level
Why Varclen
What the large firms leave open
Global risk practices are broad, layered and slow. Their reports arrive hedged, staffed down to juniors, and priced for a procurement cycle rather than a live decision. We built Varclen against exactly those four gaps.
Talk to a senior analystSenior analysts only
The person who scopes your matter is the person who runs it. No pyramid staffing, no junior researcher writing the conclusion you act on.
Committed turnaround
Ten business days for standard enhanced diligence, 72 hours for an expedited preliminary signal. Dates are agreed at intake, in writing.
Source-linked findings
Every assertion is traceable to its record. You get the evidence trail and an explicit list of what we could not confirm.
Conflict-free by design
One vertical, one side of the table. We run a conflicts check before intake and decline mandates that cut against an existing client.
Our focus
We go deep on one vertical: high-stakes US private capital and disputes
We do not serve every segment. Specializing lets us know the registries, the courts, the filing quirks and the recurring bad actors in this arena better than a generalist ever will — and it keeps us conflict-free on your side of the table.
01
Scoping call
Thirty confidential minutes to define the decision at stake and the questions that actually move it.
02
Collection plan
A written plan: sources, jurisdictions, lawful methods, timeline and a fixed fee before any work begins.
03
Analysis
Senior-led OSINT and records work, corroborated across independent sources and stress-tested internally.
04
Findings & debrief
A source-linked findings file plus a live debrief with your counsel, committee or board.
Engagements
Two ways to work with us
A single defined investigation, or a standing intelligence function for a continuous pipeline. Fees are fixed at intake — no hourly meters, no surprise pass-throughs.
Investigation Mandate
A defined, high-stakes question answered end to end.
$40K – $80Kper matter
- Fixed fee agreed before work starts
- Enhanced due diligence or fraud and asset tracing
- Source-linked findings file
- Live debrief with counsel or committee
- 10 business days standard turnaround
Most requested
Standing Advisory Retainer
An intelligence function on call for a continuous deal or risk pipeline.
$8K – $20Kper month
- Named senior analyst on retainer
- Rolling counterparty and portfolio screening
- 72-hour expedited preliminary signals
- Quarterly exposure review for the board
- Priority capacity on urgent matters
Indicative ranges for illustration. Final scope and fee are confirmed in writing after the scoping call.
Client voices
Decisions that changed on the evidence
Placeholder quotes — illustrative, anonymized
“The ownership chain they mapped in nine days was the reason we restructured the earn-out instead of signing it. Nobody else had found the second holding entity.”
“Findings arrived with the sources attached, which meant I could put them in front of opposing counsel without re-verifying a single line.”
“We suspected vendor fraud for months. Their transaction review isolated the scheme and quantified the exposure in under three weeks.”
FAQ
Questions before the first call
Anything not covered here, ask it in the briefing request — a senior analyst answers directly.
Large generalists staff broadly and route work through junior researchers. Every Varclen mandate is run end-to-end by the senior analyst you meet in the scoping call, with a named lead accountable for the finding, the source and the caveat.
A source-linked findings file: the conclusion first, then the evidence trail behind it — records pulled, corporate layers mapped, adverse media assessed, and an explicit statement of what could not be confirmed. Written to be usable by counsel and an investment committee alike.
Standard enhanced due diligence lands in 10 business days. Expedited counterparty screening returns a preliminary signal in 72 hours. Complex multi-jurisdiction fraud and asset tracing work is scoped case by case.
Yes. We work from public records, open-source intelligence, licensed data and lawful human inquiry. We do not use pretexting or unlawful data access, and every finding is documented so it survives scrutiny in a deal room or a deposition.
Matters run under NDA with a conflicts check before intake. Work product is compartmentalized by matter, and we decline any mandate that touches an adverse side of an existing client's interests.
US-based businesses, executives, litigation and white-collar attorneys, private equity and family-office investors — generally at the point where a decision is expensive to get wrong.
Get started
Bring us the decision you can’t afford to get wrong
Join the waitlist for a confidential 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you plainly whether intelligence work changes your answer — and if it does not, we will say so.
- Senior analyst on the first call, every time
- NDA and conflicts check before intake
- Fixed fee and timeline in writing