01 / FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Complex Financial Investigations
Suspected embezzlement, diversion of funds, fraudulent transfers, shell-company structures, related-party activity, unexplained wealth and concealed financial relationships.
Complex Investigations · Financial Intelligence · Litigation Support
When the facts matter, intelligence changes the outcome.
Checkmate helps attorneys, businesses and financial professionals answer difficult questions when the facts are incomplete, assets are concealed, relationships are obscured, or substantial money is at risk.
37+ yearsInvestigative experience
Attorney-ownedLegal-context perspective
NationwideU.S. investigative capability
Specialist networkResources assembled as needed
Beyond a search
Investigations built around the question that must be answered.
A sophisticated investigation is not a collection of database results. It is a disciplined effort to develop facts, test relationships, trace value, identify what remains unknown and help the client determine where to look next.
Checkmate's Investigations & Intelligence practice is designed for matters that do not fit neatly on an order form. We combine investigative research, financial and asset intelligence, public and proprietary sources, analytical review and—when appropriate—specialized outside expertise into a focused investigative strategy.
Capabilities
Six focused practices.
We begin with the investigative objective, not a predetermined product. Each engagement is scoped around the facts, the stakes and the decisions the client needs to make.
02 / ASSET TRACING
Asset Tracing & Recovery Intelligence
Determine where wealth may be located, how it is held, who may control it, whether ownership is obscured and which leads merit deeper investigation or legal process.
03 / DISPUTES
Litigation Intelligence & Support
Pre-suit intelligence, party and adversary research, witness work, relationship mapping, recoverability assessments, fact development and investigative leads for discovery.
04 / FRAUD
Fraud & Corporate Investigations
Employee theft, vendor fraud, conflicts of interest, kickbacks, undisclosed relationships, misuse of company assets and suspected internal wrongdoing.
05 / DUE DILIGENCE
Investigative Due Diligence
Enhanced intelligence concerning executives, acquisition targets, business partners, borrowers, major vendors, counterparties and significant hires.
06 / DIGITAL ASSETS
Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
Blockchain tracing, wallet analysis, transaction mapping, exchange identification and integration of digital-asset findings into conventional financial investigations.
How we work
A phased investigation. Clear objectives. Senior attention.
Complex matters evolve. Our engagement structure is designed to develop useful intelligence early, control cost and allow the investigation to expand only where the developing facts justify it.
Significant matters culminate in an Investigative Intelligence Report that separates verified facts, analytical assessments and unresolved questions—and identifies practical next investigative steps for the client and counsel to consider.
01. Confidential consultation
Understand the problem, legal or business context, known facts and the decisions the investigation must support.
02. Preliminary intelligence assessment
Define objectives, identify priority subjects and relationships, and establish an efficient first phase.
03. Expanded investigation
Follow significant leads across assets, entities, transactions, associates, records, jurisdictions and digital assets as appropriate.
04. Analysis & next steps
Connect the findings, identify gaps, explain significance and develop additional investigative or discovery avenues for consideration.
Who we serve
Built for consequential matters.
Our initial emphasis is on lawyers and legal matters, while the same investigative discipline supports financial institutions, corporations and sophisticated investors.
Law FirmsCommercial litigation, bankruptcy, creditors' rights, fraud, white collar, business disputes, trusts & estates and judgment enforcement.
Financial InstitutionsBanks, commercial lenders, specialty lenders, investment firms and institutional creditors.
CorporationsGeneral counsel, executive management, compliance, risk and internal investigative functions.
Investment CommunityPrivate equity, family offices, venture capital and sophisticated investment organizations.
Representative matters
What a complex investigation can look like.
Illustrative, anonymized examples of the kinds of problems the practice is designed to address. They are not representations of results in any particular client matter.
Financial Investigation
The Missing Millions
Counsel suspects that a former executive diverted substantial corporate funds. The investigative objective expands beyond locating assets to reconstructing relationships among the executive, affiliated entities, financial institutions, property interests and potential recipients of transferred value.
Asset Tracing
The Debtor Who Owned “Nothing”
Develop the ownership picture behind related companies, family-held interests, transfers, lifestyle indicators and potential nominee arrangements.
Digital Assets
Following the Crypto
Combine blockchain intelligence with conventional investigative research to identify transaction paths, counterparties and potential exchange touchpoints.
Due Diligence
The Partner Who Wasn't What He Seemed
Test the public narrative against litigation, corporate affiliations, financial red flags, reputation and undisclosed relationships before substantial capital is committed.
Litigation Intelligence
Connecting the Parties
Map companies, principals, associates, witnesses and historical relationships to develop facts and focused avenues for counsel's discovery strategy.
Why Checkmate
Investigative experience with a lawyer's understanding of how facts get used.
Checkmate Intelligence Group Inc. is attorney-owned and operated and has more than 37 years of investigative experience. The practice grew from decades of financial and asset investigations performed for legal and financial professionals.
For complex engagements, Checkmate can coordinate vetted specialists—including forensic accountants, digital-forensics professionals, cryptocurrency specialists, field investigators and international resources—when the matter requires expertise beyond the core team.
“The investigation isn't finished when information is found. The next questions are: What does it mean? What does it connect to? What should we investigate next?”
That analytical layer is the difference between a search product and an investigative engagement.
Insights
Investigative Intelligence Briefs.
A planned series of practical papers for lawyers and financial professionals dealing with complex financial investigations, concealment and recovery.
Intelligence Brief
When an Asset Search Isn't Enough
Recognizing the point at which a discrete search should become a broader asset-tracing investigation.
Intelligence Brief
Following the Money Through Related Companies
How corporate relationships, insiders and historical transactions can reveal a financial picture that isolated records miss.
Intelligence Brief
Cryptocurrency in Financial Investigations
Integrating blockchain evidence with people, companies, conventional assets and legal process.
Confidential inquiry
Tell us the problem you are trying to solve.
Complex investigations are scoped individually. We begin with a confidential discussion of the known facts, the investigative objective, timing and the decisions the resulting intelligence must support.
Checkmate Intelligence Group Inc.
7751 Belfort Parkway, Suite 200
Jacksonville, FL 32256
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