Colley Intelligence: Helping Make Critical Decisions with Precision and Insight

With more than 35 years of experience screening board appointments and executives, we understand that selecting the right candidate is critical. From enhancing perceptions and protecting profits to ensuring continuity and readiness, making the right hire affects all aspects of your business. That’s why Colley is there to help search committees, executive search firms, and corporations conduct deep-dive assessments before hires or appointments. Going beyond box-ticking, we delve into important aspects of reputation and character including affiliations, conflicts, financial networks, and online perception — ensuring your candidates are a good fit the first time.

Before a transaction or investment, understanding the culture, positioning, and people in an organization is critical. From identifying strengths and leadership fit to uncovering lapses in judgment, past allegations, or hidden controversies, mistakes in the diligence process can be costly to your reputation and business. Colley’s transaction due diligence and advisory professionals help conduct deep-dive assessments of board appointments, executive leadership, and senior personnel on behalf of investors and funds. Beyond our deep-dive diligence process, we provide impactful and strategic support for clients seeking to identify assets, recover value, or leverage an opportunity.

By virtue of our issue expertise and prior experience in highly regulated and scrutinized sectors, Colley Intelligence leverages our sanctions and compliance experience to help private equity firms, asset managers, and investment partnerships scrutinize parties and analyze anti-corruption and sanctions risks in investment and transaction decisions. Most often retained by inside and outside counsels and compliance professionals, we tailor our approach to the business and geography in which our clients operate, delivering real-time insights into counterparties in partnerships and third-party players identifying risks in the operations, relationships, and financial structure of those we assess.

Our recent experience includes:

• Assessed AML and corruption risks on an Argentine entity being acquired by a multi-channel European investor
• Conducted sanctions compliance research on behalf of a multi-family-office seeking to invest in an Asia-based entity
• Assisted the compliance department of a US-based financial institution in assessing the anti-corruption, anti-bribery, and sanctions compliance risks in making a multi-million-dollar loan to a Mexico-based investment entity
• Engaged to diligence counterparties involved in a transaction and investigated potential indicators of violations of CFIUS laws

In today’s socially conscious business environment, adherence to human rights and corporate social responsibility is not just ethical but essential. Colley helps corporations and investors understand business and supplier relationships, assess compliance, and identify risks. Across the US, and around the world, businesses and investors rely on Colley.

Our experience and deep network in foreign jurisdictions, and knowledge of local languages enables us to contduct comprehensive international investigations and asset tracing. Understanding these jurisdictions and cultures is crucial in a world of increasingly extra-territorial regulation, and where business is increasingly defined by relashionships, not borders.

For financial institutions, Money Services Businesses (MSB’s), and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP’s), Colley offers tailored solutions designed to ensure adherence to regulatory standards and mitigate risk exposure. Leveraging extensive industry experience and cutting-edge technology, we provide comprehensive assessments, strategic guidance, and implementation support to help companies of all sizes stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements and emerging threats. From proactive compliance measures and data privacy and security protocols, Colley’s team of former IRS and Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors, CFE’s, and Certified Anti-Money-Laundering-Specialists (ACAMS) can help develop and enhance programs, conduct investigations, and navigate enforcement actions.

As a result of our expertise in helping companies protect investments and working for successful individuals and families in comprehensive risk mitigation and reputation management, Colley works with Name Image Likeness (NIL) collectives to help NIL student-athletes navigate the complex landscape of financial, reputational risk, and privacy challenges that professional athletes face today. From investigating backgrounds, conflicts, and relationships to providing executive protection, data privacy, and security consulting, Colley’s integrated services ensure professional athletes can focus on what they do best: performing at their highest level. Let us handle the complexities of the modern world, so you can keep your eye on the prize.