We uncover the real owners behind complex corporate structures. Our analysts trace nominee chains, identify sanctioned affiliations, and map evasion schemes — giving compliance teams the intelligence they need to make informed decisions.
Piercing through layers of shell companies, nominee directors, and trust structures to identify the real individuals controlling an entity. Cross-referencing across multiple jurisdictions.
Comprehensive checks against OFAC SDN, EU Consolidated List, UN Security Council, and national sanctions registries. Fuzzy matching and alias detection to catch deliberate obfuscation.
Identifying Politically Exposed Persons and their close associates. Deep media analysis across multiple languages to uncover corruption, fraud, or organized crime connections.
Identifying patterns of sanctions circumvention: front companies, transshipment schemes, circular ownership, and straw-man arrangements designed to mask sanctioned parties.
Effective sanctions compliance and UBO screening is not a name-against-list lookup. It is the work of resolving who actually controls an entity and how close they sit to a designated party. Our analysts screen the subject, its directors, beneficial owners, and key affiliates against OFAC SDN, the EU Consolidated List, the UN Security Council list, UK OFSI, and national registries — then trace the ownership chain through nominees, shell companies, and offshore structures to identify the true Ultimate Beneficial Owner. We apply the OFAC 50-percent rule by manually aggregating sanctioned ownership across a corporate chain, and we look for evasion patterns such as front companies, transshipment routes, and circular ownership that automated tools miss.
How to read the results: deliverables are risk-rated and audit-ready. A screening brief gives a clear match, potential-match, or clear verdict with list citations; a fuller exposure memo adds the resolved ownership graph, SDN proximity (how many hops separate your counterparty from a designated person), PEP and adverse-media findings, and a risk classification. Every conclusion cites its source, and inferred links are flagged separately from confirmed ones so compliance teams have a defensible decision trail rather than a raw database hit. This page covers the analyst-led sanctions screening service we provide; for a quick self-service check before commissioning a full review, use our free sanctions screening tool, which runs an instant name match against the major lists.
OFAC (US), the EU Consolidated List, UK OFSI, the UN Security Council list, and various national-level lists such as Swiss SECO and Japan METI.
Our analysts manually aggregate the ownership percentages of all sanctioned entities within a corporate chain. If combined sanctioned ownership reaches 50%, the subsidiary is flagged as implicitly sanctioned.
Yes. Our team has native proficiency navigating the Russian EGRUL, SPARK, and CIS corporate registries, identifying sanctioned individuals hidden behind complex proxy networks.
Yes. UBO identification is central to the service — we pierce nominee directors, trust structures, and offshore layers to establish who really controls the entity, then assess their sanctions exposure.
Need a comprehensive sanctions check or UBO investigation? We provide actionable intelligence, not just database hits.
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