Boutique practice, expert results.

Headquartered in Denver, Belem Group is a boutique investigations and due diligence consultancy serving investors, law firms, consulting firms, and small and medium-sized businesses. We excel at deep background investigations, helping clients to identify hidden issues relating to fraud, misrepresentation, financial distress, and litigation.

We conduct due diligence to help investors make sound decisions, support attorneys with actionable information during fraud investigations, and help small and medium-sized businesses vet new partners and acquisition targets.

Services

Due Diligence

Work with us before an investment, acquisition, or partnership to vet a company and its senior management. Our due diligence investigations focus on identifying misrepresentations, signs of fraud, reputational risks, and conflicts of interest.

Investigations and Litigation Support

When you know or suspect that a fraud has occurred, we can help by investigating those involved and identifying assets that can be pursued in court.

Insights

It begins with a name (the right one)

A diligence investigation can only provide confidence if it’s conducted on the right name, and over the years I've run into a handful of situations where my investigation revealed that the subject was operating under a new name or alias.

Tanya featured in Trove

I was recently honored to be featured by Trove, a platform that helps organizations bring diverse perspectives to their thorniest business problems by highlighting box-breaking expert consultants, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. It was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the more than 15 years that I’ve spent as a fraud and diligence investigator.

Crisis Diligence: Considerations for investors in distressed companies during COVID-19

How can investor identify and mitigate elevated fraud risk during COVID-19? You need to know how much pressure a specific business and its executives are under, and then minimize the opportunity to commit a crime.

Cannabis Compliance Due Diligence

We’re pleased to share two posts that Tanya Hoke co-authored with Tom Firestone of Baker McKenzie for that firm’s Global Cannabis Compliance Blog this month.

Values

Investigations have come a long way since the days of the gumshoe detective in a dark alley. Belem Group is a boutique firm that delivers impeccable results while adhering to strict ethical and legal guidelines.

INTEGRITY

We do what we say we will, deliver on time, and do not compromise when it comes to ethics and the law.

CONFIDENTIALITY

We take your trust seriously. We do not disclose the names of our clients without consent unless required by law.

TRANSPARENCY

We believe in being clear about how we work so that you only pay for expertise, not for mystery.

“Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.”

— Max Ehrman

Integrity | Transparency