A Standing Team on Call for Law Firms and Funds
Deal flow arrives faster than a new vendor can be onboarded. This is a standing due diligence partnership for law firms and funds: one licensed team, a monthly block of hours, and an investigator who already knows what your committee will ask.
Deal flow does not wait for a new due diligence vendor to be onboarded
The diligence that gets cut is the one where the deal moved faster than procurement. The term sheet had a date on it, and the alternative to a rushed database report was no report at all. Funds and firms live with that risk because engaging an investigator per deal is slower than the deal itself.
A standing partnership removes the friction. The engagement exists, the conflicts are cleared, and a name sent on Monday is worked on Monday. Every name we work is a full due diligence investigation, the same verification of who you are dealing with that we run on a single deal.
A standing due diligence partner already knows your risk thresholds
Your format, agreed once
Report length, red flag definitions, and what your investment committee actually reads, settled at the start and applied to every file after it.
A monthly block of hours
A set allotment of licensed investigator hours each month, drawn against as names arrive. Unused hours do not roll forward, which is what keeps the capacity yours.
One named examiner
The same licensed examiner across your deals, so context carries from one file to the next instead of being rebuilt each time.
A database report returns what was aggregated and misses what a fund actually needs
An automated report tells you what someone chose to make public and what a data broker happened to collect. It will not tell you that the chief executive ran two prior companies into insolvency under a different spelling of his name. It will not tell you that the counterparty address is a mail drop, or that the principal is in litigation filed last month in a county nobody aggregates. Those findings come from an investigator who looks, and they are the ones that change a decision.
Investor due diligence protects the fund from the money it takes in
Source of wealth examined
Where the money came from, whether the story holds, and whether the record supports what the subscription documents say.
The person behind the vehicle
Nominee structures, undisclosed control and the people who actually direct the entity subscribing to your fund.
Reputational exposure named
Litigation, regulatory history and press the investor did not mention, found before your name is tied to theirs.
The engagement shape is the same as our investor and counterparty due diligence work, held open on a standing basis instead of bought by the deal.
Counterparty due diligence names the people on the other side
Portfolio due diligence continues after the wire clears
Most diligence stops at closing, which is when the risk actually starts. A standing partner keeps watching the names that matter: the principal who takes on undisclosed litigation, the portfolio company officer with a new regulatory problem, the counterparty whose entity quietly dissolves. You hear it from your investigator rather than from a journalist.
A due diligence month is sized by the names you send against the block
Set the standard
Conflicts, your red flag thresholds, your report format and your escalation rules agreed once, so no later file repeats the conversation.
Send and go
A name arrives and work starts against the monthly block, with no new engagement and no procurement step.
Deliver
A written report in your format, with the findings that change a decision stated first and plainly.
Ledger
One ledger of names worked, hours used and reports delivered, and one invoice.
A venture deal and a counterparty check need different depth from the same standing file
A seed investment where one principal is the whole thesis needs that person examined properly. A routine counterparty check on a supplier you have dealt with for years needs confirmation and exception reporting, nothing more. Buying the same report for both wastes money on one and under serves the other.
A standing partner sets those tiers with you once and applies them without asking again. You send the name and the tier, and the file comes back written the way that tier is supposed to read.
Hours, format and privilege are the three things a fund settles first
What is a standing due diligence partner?
Is this different from a background check or a database report?
Can you cover portfolio companies after the investment closes?
Do you work at the direction of counsel?
Do unused hours roll over?
How is the standing due diligence partnership priced?
Funds ask who signed the due diligence report before they ask what it says
Matt Aubin, CDFE, FBCI
Managing Partner, E3 Legacy Intel · Southern Recon Agency, LLC, Florida agency license A-1400197
Every file in the standing partnership is worked under a named, licensed examiner. Matt Aubin brings seventeen years in cybercrime and open source intelligence. He is a Certified Digital Forensics Examiner (CDFE), a Florida Board Certified Investigator (FBCI), and a Certified AI Agent Developer. He has investigated cases jointly with the FBI, the SEC, the U.S. Secret Service, and the U.S. Marshals.
His work has been featured on ABC News, Spectrum News, and The Daily Beast, and in a television pilot for Netflix and MAC Pictures as a cybercrime expert. He keynotes nationally and serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI). The firm is nationwide, and the work is run from Florida. About Matt Aubin
Call (877) 732-6648 or use the contact form to arrange a confidential call. Scope and fee are quoted in writing after a confidential call.
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A licensed examiner reads every inquiry. You get a written, flat fee quote before any work starts. Or call (877) 732-6648.
