Litigation support - Background checks
Incident response - Asset tracing
Welcome
Kalon Advisory is an independent business intelligence and integrity due diligence firm, founded by experts from the most renowned international firms.
Our business is to support organizations faced with sensitive or high-stakes situations that threaten their business or reputation.
Our experience enables us to combine multi-disciplinary methods and expertise developed in the fields of strategic intelligence and internal investigation (audit and forensic).with best-practices on-the-ground investigation techniques international.
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Kalon Advisory, Compliance - Third Party Due Diligence
Compliance and transaction consulting
We carry out multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary investigations and identify the factual data that enable our clients to make the right decisions in the context of M&A operations, cross-border transactions or investment projects in any country. We have the experience and capacity to operate in complex, even sensitive, jurisdictions.
Our offer
A solution to all your issues
Due diligence and background checks
Example: Pre-transaction reputation analysis.
Why Kalon: Our reports are produced under the supervision of senior partners who are experts in conducting due diligence on individuals or legal entities to comply with anti-corruption legislation and regulations, such as Sapin 2, FCPA, UKbA, and the OECD Convention on Bribery. We scrupulously respect deadlines for the reports ordered so that you can make informed decisions on time.
Identifying hidden conflicts of interest
Example: Suspected fraud or corruption, uncovering collusion
Why Kalon: Whether in preventive or crisis management mode, we have advanced research capabilities to uncover the existence of conflicts between third parties and our clients' interests. We deploy our networks in the field to establish the existence of links with politically exposed persons (PEPs) or local competitors beyond the information officially available in databases.
Unveiling of direct and indirect links with sanctioned entities
Example: AML / CFT, FCPA, Sapin 2, KYC process.
Why Kalon: Kalon is a market leader in the identification of the actual connections between organisations or individuals and entities under international sanctions in the most sensitive countries. Our methodology combines different collection methods to identify potential links between your third parties and structures subject to international sanctions
Unethical business practices
Example: Distortion of competition, unfair practices and counterfeiting
Why Kalon: Our consultants gather pieces of evidence that are used by lawyers to plan legal action on the basis of tangible information.
Kalon Advisory, litigation support and asset tracing
Dispute resolution and litigation support
We work with our customers' law firms and legal departments to suggest and implement a plan for obtaining information to be used in litigation or disputes affecting the company.
Our analysis enables us to understand a situation and extract the tangible elements that will be used in legal proceedings.
Our offer
A solution to all your issues
Asset search
Example: Enforcing an arbitration award
Why Kalon: Identifying movable and fixed assets can be complicated by the multiplication of challenging jurisdictions and the use of third parties. Our methodology enables us to conduct asset searches on complex cases involving several jurisdictions.
Search for evidence
Example: Litigation support
Why Kalon: Our reports are designed to be used internally by our clients' legal departments or externally in partnership with international law firms. All our consultants are fluent in English and interact with English-speaking interlocutors in international litigation.
Credit check
Example: Sales procedure
Why Kalon: Whatever the working language, we have the capacity to conduct research in the language spoken locally, in order to gather legally accessible information from various administrations.
Kalon Advisory, cross-border investigations
Transnational investigations
Favoured by the development of globalization, which facilitates concealment and complicates investigations, financial crime activities are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Over the past twenty-five years, our experts have conducted strategic surveys on every continent and in most countries.
Our method is based on in-depth knowledge of the schemes used by fraudsters, white-collar criminals and those who try to hide behind complex international structures.
Our international network of experts and analysts enables us to respond to unusual situations and understand the reality of a situation on the ground.
Kalon Advisory, the answer to sensitive situations
Response to internal and external incidents
We support the relevant corporate entities (internal audit, legal, compliance, security, board of directors) in responding to incidents or exceptional situations. Intervening worldwide. Each member of our network of regional and sector experts is selected according to the issues and sensitivity of each project. Our analysis enables us to understand the situation so that our customers can respond appropriately and proportionately.
Our offer
A solution to all your issues
Response to internal and external ethical alerts
Example: Multiplication of protean ethical alerts
Why Kalon: Our experience covers a wide spectrum, from HR alerts (data leaks) to breaches of human rights and compliance with local legislation and CSR (child labor, environmental issues, etc.).
Fraud and corruption investigations
Example: Tightening legislation and growing suspicions
Why Kalon: We combine our knowledge of the corruption schemes used in financial crime with a detailed analysis of the field and the use of advanced technologies (A.I., forensic tools, etc.).
A service tailored to your needs
Leadership
Founder and CEO of Kalon Advisory, Grégory Zouane has 25 years' experience in assisting companies during their most challenging international issues.
A recognised professional, Grégory Zouane is a lecturer in the D.U. Compliance & Business Ethics program at Panthéon-Sorbonne and is also a member of the national AFNOR ISO TC 309 "Compliance and Governance of Organizations" commission, where he shares his knowledge of compliance-related investigative issues.
A pioneer in due diligence investigations, he developed these activities within a French government agency before joining an international group specializing in KYC and third-party investigations. Before founding Kalon Advisory, Grégory Zouane was Director of the French entity of an international security and crisis management firm.