Your edge is informational. Treat it like an asset class.

Why funds are targeted

In a competitive process, knowing a rival bidder's ceiling is worth the entire spread. In a distressed situation, knowing a fund's timeline changes the negotiation. The economics of collection are compelling, the window is long, a transaction generates months of sensitive discussion, and the venues are predictable: the same IC room, the same advisers' offices, the same hotels during roadshows and management meetings.

Our casework in the sector repeatedly features three patterns: devices placed in IC and deal rooms by insiders with schedule knowledge; counterparties' premises used for negotiations without any assurance they are clean; and information moving through the extended deal team, advisers, consultants and portfolio company management, rather than through the fund itself.

How we support funds

• IC and deal room assurance, scheduled and pre-meeting inspection of the rooms where positions are fixed, through the life of a transaction.
• Counterparty venue inspection, negotiations, management presentations and signings held on the other side's premises or at neutral venues, inspected before your team speaks freely in them.
• Roadshow and travel support, hotel suites and off-site meeting rooms inspected across Asian financial centres during fundraising and deal execution.
• Extended-team discipline, practical confidentiality protocols for deal teams and advisers: where to discuss what, on which systems, in which rooms.
• Leak response, when a process shows signs of compromise, a rival matching your terms, a journalist with the target's name, our Corporate Espionage Response team establishes the channel while the deal is still live.
• Portfolio company protection, boardroom assurance extended into portfolio companies during exits, restructurings and contested board situations.

Confidentiality as an LP expectation

Institutional investors increasingly probe operational risk controls in due diligence, and information governance is part of that inquiry. A documented confidentiality assurance programme, like a documented cyber posture, is becoming a marker of institutional quality. We provide the reporting to evidence it without disclosing operational detail.