The Fairfax Group has diverse expertise in a wide range of sectors, industries, and emerging markets, including:
- Governments
- NGOs
- Corporate
- Healthcare
- Financial
- Energy
- Legal
- Academic
- Media/Entertainment
- Construction/Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Telecommunications
- Aerospace
- Mining
- Maritime
- Sports
- Transportation
In today’s business culture, the issues of risks and vulnerabilities are a regular agenda topic in corporate boardrooms. With our broad national and international resources, the Fairfax Group can help you design a strategic risk-mitigation plan geared to maximize business opportunities while driving down risk, creating a safer environment for all your stakeholders, and assuring continuity of your business operations.
Security and Risk Mitigation
- Design, implementation, and review of corporate crisis management plans
- Crisis communication
- Security risk analysis and site inspection
- Facility and digital safety and security, including penetration testing
- Special-event security
- Executive protection
- Counter-terrorism training and intelligence collection
- Travel security training and assistance
Crisis Management Services
- How to minimize the impact of current and future problems
- Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, incident specific approach
- On site and continuing support during and after an incident
- After incident follow-up – risk assessment surveys, testing policies and procedures, and simulation exercises - to strengthen an organization’s ability to respond appropriately to any future crises.
- Customizing the five steps to effective crisis management for each incident:
- Risk Assessment
- Response Design and Coordination
- Implementation
- Evaluation and Safeguarding
- Assessment and Future Planning
Compliance, Corporate Governance & Monitoring
- Design or review of corporate compliance policies and procedures (including business conduct guidelines)
- Independent investigations related to compliance violations
- Compliance training for employees and compliance officers
- Independent employee and supplier (vendor) hotline services
- Design or review of enterprise risk management systems
- Design or review of corporate social responsibility programs
- Go-to-market strategies for high-risk countries
- Recruitment of compliance personnel
- Presentations on global compliance issues
- Design or review of corporate compliance communication programs
- Design or review of supplier (vendor) compliance programs
- Compliance-related due diligence
- Design or review of compliance audit programs and procedures
- Monitoring of corporate compliance with laws, rules, and regulations
- Anti money-laundering policies, procedures, and investigations
Forensic Auditing/Digital Forensics
- Collection and analysis of specialized financial and factual data to support decision-making, including litigation
- Independent expertise to ensure accuracy and use of data, avoiding possible conflicts of interest through the use of in-house resources
- Thorough knowledge of local regulations governing collection and use of data, such as EU Data Privacy and US state and Federal privacy laws and regulations
- Execution of work in multiple locations and with local language capability
- Service as court-appointed expert to collect data from all parties
Litigation Support and Case Management
- Close coordination with counsel through all stages of litigation
- Assistance with developing litigation strategy, determining what is possible, what is legal and ethical, and what is missing
- Assurance that all actions pass the "New York Times test"; e.g., assessing their impact on the decision if they were published by broadcast or print media
- Liaison services with law enforcement and other governmental agencies
- Location of potential witnesses with preliminary interviews to determine their benefit to the case
- Specialized services, such as forensic accounting, digital forensics, and forensic examination of evidence
Corporate & Government Investigations
- Business intelligence
- Global investigations including corruption, fraud, intellectual property theft, and malfeasance
- Asset searches
- Background investigations of potential new employees, executives, board members, and witnesses
- Due diligence on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, distributorships, key suppliers, representatives and agents
- Competitive intelligence
- Independent investigations of internal misconduct allegations such as employee harassment, labor-management issues, and worker health and safety problems
- Service as government-authorized investigator, typically in public corruption cases outside the country of origin
- Analysis of environmental issues, both within the US and overseas, including RPR investigations
- Defending or prosecuting anti-trust claims by identifying critical witnesses and evidence
Anti-Money Laundering
- “Know Your Customer” due diligence
- Protect your reputation
- Testing existing procedures and controls to validate adequacy of protections and reports mechanisms
- Conduct staff training
- Develop comprehensive compliance procedures and guidelines – prepare a documented, written record
- Recommend necessary system upgrades or implementation
- Promote effective strategies to establish or reestablish standing with governmental regulators and the business community
Labor – Management Disputes
- Collection of Threat Intelligence
- Ensure the safety and integrity of all company assets
- Complying will all Federal and state laws and regulations governing labor-management relations, effectively monitor and document violations of the NLRA
- Assist in the development and implementation of an effective public relations strategy
- Liaison with relevant governmental authorities, including law enforcement, to insure that the company’s interests are considered and protected
- Provide guidance on possible courses of action by the opposing parties, including preparing models of similar past campaigns
- Establish a broad crisis management plan and team
- Respond to any crises or threats
- Train existing security force and/or provide specialized security personnel experienced in handling labor-management disputes
Intellectual Property Protection
- Assess the vulnerability of current policies and procedures, including contractual obligations of third parties, such as vendors and suppliers
- Recommend steps to strengthen the protection of IP assets
- Investigate parties suspected of breaching the rights of another to obtain useable, sufficient evident for the relevant governmental authority to take action
- Liaison with governmental entities to promote effective response to evidence of breaches of another’s rights
- Provide employee training
- Work with suppliers and vendors to reduce, if not eliminate, the flow of IP data to unauthorized parties and/or unfair competition