Due Diligence Consulting
Due Diligence Consulting (DDC) is a boutique consulting firm specializing in comprehensive, detailed executive background checks and investment due diligence. They serve a diverse client base including Fortune 500 companies, private companies, family offices, law firms, hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, foundations, and accounting firms. DDC is also a licensed private investigative agency through DDC Investigations LLC. Their services include background checks, investment due diligence, investigations, and asset searches, with a global reach and a history of uncovering critical information for their clients. Recent investigations include asset searches for large private companies, uncovering missed assets exceeding $50 million, and locating perpetrators in complex schemes such as Ponzi schemes in Florida.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Due Diligence Consulting
Naples, Florida, United States, North America
Services
Sourced jurisdictional background checks for executives, employees, and household staff with documented original‑source citations.
Due diligence on individuals, partners, and target companies to identify financial, legal, and reputational risks prior to investment or acquisition.
Licensed private‑investigator field operations including on‑site record retrieval, warrants collection, and field verification, combined with advanced skip‑tracing to locate individuals evading service.
Large‑scale data acquisition, proprietary database analysis, and mapping to locate assets and related entities for recovery, litigation, or regulatory matters; includes cases where prior firms failed to identify assets.
Due diligence and preparatory research for transactions, including executive and target screening and assistance preparing for government or regulatory review in cross‑border deals.
Evidence collection and research outputs structured and documented to support litigation, depositions, proxy contests, and dispute resolution.
Sourced jurisdictional background checks for executives, employees, and household staff with documented original‑source citations.
Due diligence on individuals, partners, and target companies to identify financial, legal, and reputational risks prior to investment or acquisition.
Licensed private‑investigator field operations including on‑site record retrieval, warrants collection, and field verification, combined with advanced skip‑tracing to locate individuals evading service.
Large‑scale data acquisition, proprietary database analysis, and mapping to locate assets and related entities for recovery, litigation, or regulatory matters; includes cases where prior firms failed to identify assets.
Due diligence and preparatory research for transactions, including executive and target screening and assistance preparing for government or regulatory review in cross‑border deals.
Evidence collection and research outputs structured and documented to support litigation, depositions, proxy contests, and dispute resolution.
Expertise Areas
- Executive background screening
- Investment and pre‑investment due diligence
- Forensic asset searches and asset tracing
- Jurisdictional public‑records retrieval
Key Technologies
- Proprietary in‑house research database
- Large‑scale data acquisition and analysis
- Geospatial mapping and entity‑link analysis
- Deep‑web research and skip‑tracing techniques
News & Updates
Due Diligence Consulting provided research support and due diligence as part of a U.S. public company’s approximately $750 million acquisition of a private company. Their research enabled the client to close the deal quickly and efficiently.
DDC was engaged to conduct a thorough pre-investment background check and discovered that the hedge fund manager had a 2016 federal tax lien for approximately $15 million. The client decided not to pursue investment based on this finding.
Peter Barakett and DDC were positively highlighted in an Institutional Investor story on investigators who work for hedge funds.
An estimated 7 million felony conviction records are missing from many databases, highlighting the importance of thorough background checks.
DDC has discovered that some public company CEOs have lied about their educational background, including claims of Harvard degrees that they do not possess.
Successfully located assets exceeding $50 million for a private client, uncovering assets missed by previous investigators and forensic accountants.
Due Diligence Consulting provided research support and due diligence as part of a U.S. public company’s approximately $750 million acquisition of a private company. Their research enabled the client to close the deal quickly and efficiently.
DDC was engaged to conduct a thorough pre-investment background check and discovered that the hedge fund manager had a 2016 federal tax lien for approximately $15 million. The client decided not to pursue investment based on this finding.
Peter Barakett and DDC were positively highlighted in an Institutional Investor story on investigators who work for hedge funds.
An estimated 7 million felony conviction records are missing from many databases, highlighting the importance of thorough background checks.
DDC has discovered that some public company CEOs have lied about their educational background, including claims of Harvard degrees that they do not possess.
Successfully located assets exceeding $50 million for a private client, uncovering assets missed by previous investigators and forensic accountants.