Renaissance conducts investigations for a wide variety of premier clients. We recognize the increasingly difficult issues facing our clients in such areas as corporate fraud, disputes, criminal matters, and civil litigation. Our approach combines investigators, forensic accountants and digital forensic professionals into a comprehensive platform capable of confronting any challenge.
Successful investigations require meticulous planning, execution and perseverance by skilled and experienced investigators. Corporate investigations, preparation for regulatory or government inquires, dispute resolution and litigation support are highly complex and go well beyond routine fact finding and evidence gathering. Renaissance Associates offers its clients unparalleled investigative leadership to achieve success and add value in even the most complex matters.
Renaissance Associates has gained the trust of corporate America and leading law firms through the flawless delivery of highly competent investigations. Renaissance Associates effectively responds to client matters where interviews, analysis and document review are required for successful outcomes. Renaissance Associates works seamlessly with attorneys, applying decades of experience as Federal law enforcement agents. With an understanding of legal implications, regulatory issues and the ability to anticipate governmental actions, Renaissance Associates is able to provide valuable strategies and tactics to our clients. Renaissance Associates applies its worldwide investigative abilities and proven methodology to create thorough reports with all information necessary to make informed and proper business or litigation decisions.
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Physical surveillance requires highly skilled and experienced individuals with specialized knowledge of the tools and techniques used to discreetly monitor, obtain and analyze useful information. Renaissance Associates works with clients to develop an effective surveillance strategy based on an in-depth assessment of the issue, the legal implications and the client’s goals. Renaissance Associates employs experienced surveillance teams equipped with advanced technology. Our teams are comprised of former law enforcement agents who have vast experience in conducting successful operations.
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Renaissance’s forensic accountants and financial analysts have years of project delivery experience, honed at the largest international accounting firms. We bring this experience to bear for the benefit of our clients in a personalized and cost efficient manner.
Our specialized expertise includes working on matters involving the investigation of financial misconduct; reconstruction of financial transactions; verification of compliance with contractual requirements; quantification of damage amounts and financial analysis. Our team is accustomed to organizing, reviewing, and interpreting large amounts of disparate financial and related information into actionable intelligence.
We leverage our professionals’ multidisciplinary and complementary backgrounds in accounting, finance, and law, and take pride in our surgical approach to solving problems and bringing order to chaotic situations. We remain focused on the performance of timely, well-conceived and executed analyses, and appreciate the importance of clearly communicating our findings, related observations, and potential implications of such analyses.
Renaissance’s digital forensics examiners have years of experience conducting forensic examinations both as law enforcement agents and in private practice. Our forensic examiners are highly trained and possess industry-standard certifications. We offer a full range of forensic services and guide our clients through every phase of an investigation, from the identification of assets that may contain relevant data to providing expert testimony, if required.
Renaissance examiners utilize state of the art forensic tools to conduct forensic examinations. We insure that we understand your goals, and provide a deliverable that will meet your needs.
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Renaissance utilizes industry standard and judicially recognized tools and procedures to capture and preserve data for further examination. We implement a chain-of-custody protocol to insure that the data we acquire will be admissible in legal proceedings. Renaissance has collected data in a wide range of matters with data sizes varying from a single thumb drive through scores of hard drives and servers.
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Computer forensic examinations often go far beyond simply examining computers. Renaissance can collect and examine data from portable devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, tablet computers, GPS receivers and the like. Despite the protections implemented by the manufacturers of these devices, we continue to be successful in the recovery of deleted data.
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The typical amount of data that needs to be reviewed in connection with a litigation or pursuant to a government subpoena has steadily increased over time. One solution that drastically reduces the time spent reviewing the data is to host the data on an electronic discovery platform. This allows for review of the data by multiple reviewers simultaneously, and allows the reviewers to search, tag and redact. Renaissance can host the data on our own servers, or prepare data for loading into your platform. After the data has been reviewed, Renaissance will produce a responsive data set, in a variety of formats, including native files, load files, TIFFing and PDF.
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We are trained and certified to track and map blockchain transactions from wallet to wallet, to identify related wallet addresses and the various types of entities and services with which they interact. While blockchain data is public, we have the best tools available in the market, giving us the ability to explain movement of the ownership of crypto assets using powerful visualizations of cryptocurrency flows.
Renaissance has decades of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, leading law firms and the federal government, applying high-level experience as federal law enforcement agents, Certified Fraud Examiners and Certified Public Accountants. Renaissance has a deep understanding of its role in litigation and always seeks to think several moves ahead, whether working on behalf of the government or the defense. We employ the same tried and true methodologies to cryptocurrency cases, particularly as they relate to investment schemes, embezzlement, fraud, other scams and divorce matters.
Leveraging decades of experience in forensic accounting and investigations, Renaissance provides a full suite of cryptocurrency investigative and blockchain forensics services. Renaissance utilizes best-in-class blockchain investigation software, and training and certification for its personnel, all of whom have experience at the highest levels of federal law enforcement and/or professional services.
Our involvement in cryptocurrency investigations primarily involves blockchain forensics procedures, to connect cryptocurrency transactions to real-world entities, including illicit services such as darknet markets, scams, hacks, and ransomware. This enables Renaissance to identify historical counterparties and risk exposure, and then monitor future transactions for all related wallet addresses. Renaissance also has digital forensics capabilities to collect and examine data from devices such as computers, mobile devices or other hardware.
Investigative research has grown in complexity and scope, given the shift toward a highly mobile society and the advent of a vast universe of Internet references and social media sites. Applying investigative proficiency and a highly targeted, systematic review of digital media, Internet data, social media, and public records, Renaissance Associates conducts far-reaching background examinations in support of litigations and corporate investigations. Renaissance Associates’ highly specialized analysts use Internet search techniques and comprehensive third-party database queries of unparalleled scope and detail for each subject. This methodology is applied in background examinations of individuals, corporate due diligence, asset location and verification and pre-employment background screenings.
More than just a basic background check, Renaissance Associates’ background investigation and corporate due diligence products are designed to provide decision makers with a holistic understanding of a subject’s patterns of behavior, reliability, and relationships of interest. Developed through combined decades spent in support of government and commercial requirements, Renaissance Associates’ methodology is specifically designed to identify information of significance across the spectrum of source materials and are used to create reporting that serves as a perfect complement to Renaissance Associates’ broader range of services while also serving as an industry-leading standalone product.
Renaissance Associates’ background investigations provide counsel and their clients with highly-detailed, in-depth research that can be used in all phases of litigation. A thorough review of an adversary’s or a witness’ background may provide counsel with findings that call into question the credibility of a litigating parties’ claims or the reliability of a witness’ statements. Background investigations conducted in advance of depositions have provided counsel with source documentation to directly refute deponent claims and targeted post-deposition research into specific statements has identified information and records that directly contradict sworn statements.
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Renaissance Associates’ background investigators have expertise conducting pre-transactional due diligence on behalf of corporate and individual clients contemplating business relationships with new partners. In these matters, Renaissance Associates’ analysts are trained to develop information that provides insight into a potential partner’s personal and professional reputation, business acumen, and conduct both in the United States and in foreign jurisdictions. Renaissance Associates’ reporting provides clients with the information necessary to make informed business and investment decisions while potentially avoiding the serious reputational and financial impact of engaging with unreliable partners.
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Renaissance Associates’ background investigators are specifically trained to identify details in statements, images, and videos that can be used to identify individuals and to develop active contact and location information. Using only historical data or vague descriptions, Renaissance Associates’ background investigators have been able to identify and locate individuals who were alleged to be potential witnesses to events, potential victims of crimes, and individuals actively attempting to evade authorities and service.
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While traditional asset searches focus on identifying real property, motor vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft held in a subject’s name, Renaissance Associates’ approach combines asset search strategies with our comprehensive background investigation methodologies to provide an unparalleled scope of investigation. Renaissance Associates’ investigation focuses on developing information about the subject’s familial, social, and business activities while additionally reviewing nontraditional sources, such as civil court filings and bankruptcy filings, to locate assets that would otherwise go unidentified through a basic asset search. Renaissance Associates’ methodology has been developed to locate assets of many classes that are held in the names of family and nonattributable businesses as well as recent transfers of assets to identified associates.
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Renaissance Associates offers a secure online portal and utilizes highly trained and experienced investigative staff to conduct comprehensive searches in a timely and efficient manner. Social media searches are performed by analysts adept at identifying sensitive content through in-depth searches on a post-by-post basis, without reliance on artificial intelligence which routinely fails to sufficiently identify contextual subtleties.
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Renaissance also conducts production research for documentaries, including identifying potential contacts willing to provide commentary for the production, developing historical/current information, obtaining photographs, and determining current location and contact information.
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In a world of ever-evolving social norms, it has never been more important to properly and thoroughly vet production participants and crew to mitigate all potential reputational risk. Since 2013, Renaissance Associates has provided personalized and unparalleled Pre-Production Diligence & Risk Management services domestically and internationally to networks, streaming services, multimedia companies, production companies, film studios, and other entities developing, producing, and airing both scripted and unscripted content.
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