A property investment fund was considering backing two individuals who were forming their own property development company. We were engaged, as part of the client's routine new business acceptance procedures, to verify career information provided as part of the application for funding, and to ensure that there were no other issues which might cast doubt on their suitability.

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Our research confirmed most of the information provided by the first subject and identified no major causes for concern in his track record. However the second, who had stated on his CV that he had taken part in a large MBO at a firm of office developers, had clearly misrepresented his role. Conversations with referees and a comparison of dates on corporate records indicated that he had joined the company over a year after the buy-out had taken place, and at a more junior level than implied. Our client proceeded with the deal after down-grading the role of the second subject.