Legal matters often turn on factual questions that sit outside the pleadings: who controls a company, whether parties are connected, where a witness or director can be found, whether an apparent asset position is credible, or what public information supports or contradicts a disputed account.
Common instructions can include pre-action intelligence, corporate and counterparty research, witness or party location enquiries, asset tracing research, chronology development and fact-testing around disputed representations.
Support shaped around the legal issue
Carratu International takes instructions from solicitors and legal teams where independent research can clarify the factual or commercial context. The starting point is the issue the legal adviser needs to resolve, not a standard investigative package.
- Pre-action intelligence and counterparty background.
- Corporate structures, directors, ownership and connected entities.
- Fraud, misrepresentation and undisclosed relationship enquiries.
- Public-record asset indicators for recovery and enforcement assessment.
- Witness, location and professional-background research where appropriate.
- Chronologies and source comparison for disputed factual narratives.
Litigation and evidential context
Research findings can help a solicitor decide what to pursue, but intelligence and admissible evidence are not interchangeable. Source provenance, coverage and evidential confidence are recorded so the legal team can assess disclosure, privilege, evidential use and any further formal steps required under the applicable procedure.
Insolvency, recovery and financial-crime concerns
Where a matter involves insolvency or suspected fraud, enquiries may extend to predecessor companies, director history, connected parties, property indicators and changes in corporate activity. For regulated legal matters, Carratu International can also support deeper contextual enquiries around ownership, source-of-funds or source-of-wealth explanations without replacing the firm's own AML obligations.
Clear outputs for case teams
Depending on the instruction, the result may be a concise findings note, chronology, relationship map, asset-information schedule or fuller report. The objective is to reduce uncertainty and give the legal team material it can evaluate quickly.
Discuss a legal matter
Send the parties, a short case summary and the factual questions that would most affect strategy. An initial assessment can establish the factual enquiries and deliverables needed by the legal team.
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