Identify Legal Red Flags Before They Impact Businesses

Litigation and legal histories provide vital insights when evaluating companies or individuals for potential partnerships. Understanding a party’s involvement in past or ongoing legal proceedings helps corporates avoid relationships that could result in financial loss, reputational harm, or compliance violations. Systematic screening and legal risk monitoring are essential during onboarding and throughout business relationships with suppliers, investors, vendors, or strategic partners. This approach reduces the likelihood of engaging with entities exposed to fraud, litigation, or other liabilities.

Workflows

Litigation History Screening

Review past and ongoing legal actions involving target companies or individuals. Identify records of lawsuits or regulatory actions to flag entities with recurring disputes or unresolved cases.

Legal Red Flag Identification

Detect companies involved in high-risk cases such as Writ of Summons, Originating Claims, bankruptcy, or winding-up. Flag links to high-risk directors or shareholders.

Periodic Legal Risk Monitoring

Monitor key vendors or partners for new or ongoing litigation. Receive alerts on emerging legal risks to enable timely response and risk mitigation.

Key personas

Legal & Compliance

Risk Managers

Strategy & Investment Team

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Entity Profile Report

Detailed business report containing key company information, address, shareholders and past charges from official sources.

Entity Profile Report PRO

Detailed business report containing key company information, address, shareholders, past charges including financial data (exclusive for Malaysia market).

RED List Report

A quick and efective way to check for direct and indirect exposure to regulatory actions.

KYB Services

Identification & Verification (Upcoming)

Search and verify information of persons and companies against official sources.

Screening

Screen persons, companies and their connected parties against Politically-Exposed-Persons (PEP) / Sanctions list.

Corporate History (Upcoming)

Historical analysis of company records such as past ownership, business activity changes and more.

Corporate Network (Upcoming)

Network pattern analysis of extended connection of corporate relationships to identify potential risks.

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Custom Reports 

Based on client requirements, our XPERT services team can deliver custom reports featuring specific data points — such as historical charges, ownership details and other relevant data — on a list of target companies identified through Local Registration Numbers e.g. UEN number.

Alert Monitoring 

Get email alerts on leadership changes by adding counter-parties to your list. Available for Singapore data only. 

One World

For users who are subscribed to two or more datasets such as Corporate Registry in Singapore, Malaysia, Capital Markets and S&P Global Market Intelligence, the OneWorld Feature is automatically unlocked to display connections across these datasets for a comprehensive analysis of searched entities.

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Investigation

Handshakes’ multifaceted data sources allow investigators to cross-reference data to build a comprehensive understanding of a company or person’s background and potential red flags.

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