Information and IP Risks

Insight Golden Gate’s global network of professionals helps organizations of all types safeguard their most important asset—their information and intellectual property (IP).

Our teams combine extensive investigatory capability, cyber expertise, and industry knowledge to identify the sources of information leaks, penetrate counterfeit and gray-market operations, track IP infringement and respond to data breaches, and address vulnerabilities to help prevent future instances of information and IP theft.

Illicit Trade Investigations

Helping clients combat counterfeit goods, gray market sales and unfair competition from untaxed imports.

The economy is governed by intellectual property protections, safety standards, import duties and trade restrictions. However, parallel to this is a universe of counterfeit goods, gray market sales and other illicit trade that undermines the requirements under which lawful businesses operate. While the culture of this underground world may make it appear undisciplined, it is highly sophisticated, and causes significant damage to above-board enterprises that play by the rules. That damage can take the form of counterfeit goods that tarnish brand reputations, gray market sales that undermine distribution strategies or unfair competition from untaxed imports offered at a discounted price. The damage caused by illicit goods can be even more tangible, such as substandard car parts or counterfeit medicines.

Insight Golden Gate’s experience and global resources in business intelligence and investigations make it uniquely positioned to help enterprises penetrate the illicit economy, prevent encroachment and recover losses. We accomplish this through a rigorous multistep process that begins with mapping the underground manufacturing and distribution network. This mapping is a forensic process that requires intelligence-gathering ranging from identifying discrepancies in bills of sale and conducting innocuous-appearing industry surveys to participating in dark web chat rooms where contraband goods are sold. We augment this intelligence gathering with advanced statistical modeling and sampling methods to provide an accurate analysis of the extent to which counterfeit or diverted products have penetrated a marketplace—a compelling foundation for subsequent damages claims.

Supply Chain Investigations

Insight Golden Gate’s global reach and investigative expertise make us uniquely positioned to provide organizations with the clarity they need when facing these complex questions. Our Supply Chain Investigations team includes on-the-ground industry experts, investigators, forensic accountants, data analysts, cyber specialists and former regulators and law enforcement officers. This range of capabilities allows us to look beyond appearances to create accurate portraits of a supplier’s financial stability, production capacity, operational resiliency and compliance record, as well as its record and culture regarding workplace conditions, environmental regulations, sanctions compliance and human rights. Drawing on Insight Golden Gate’s extensive local contacts and the expertise of our Political Risk team, we also make an objective assessment of the host country’s political sentiment and governmental capabilities in areas that can materially affect a supplier’s ability to perform, such trade policy, legal redress and enforcement and public safety and infrastructure.