Sigma7

Founded in 2002, Alaco, a member of the Sigma7 Group, is a leading business intelligence and investigations firm.  We are regularly retained to assist clients in contentious situations and at all stages of complex disputes, and have a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes for our clients in some of the most high value and high stakes commercial and investor-state claims.

Our litigation support and investigations practice is regularly instructed to assist law firms, corporations and individual investors with assignments ranging from support to identify evidence of wrongdoing before a claim is brought, to providing support in the various stages of the proceedings, and also during enforcement. Our clients, as shown by the list of referees, include some of the world’s most prestigious and innovative law firms and their ultimate clients.  At the core of this work is our ability to obtain admissible evidence and actionable intelligence.

In all the work that we do we furnish our clients with admissible evidence and intelligence to shape their broader strategy.  Our work product is regularly placed in front of tribunals ranging from ICSID and the ICC on arbitration matters, the High Court in UK commercial proceedings and the Home Office on immigration matters.

All this activity is complemented by our non-contentious, transaction advisory practice, which allows us continually to develop research techniques and human sources across a range of jurisdictions.

As a practice we focus on:

• Providing investigative support (including evidence and strategic intelligence gathering to facilitate settlement discussions) to clients in high value disputes over collapsed partnerships primarily across the premium real estate, oil and gas, and the shipping sectors across the MENA, Africa and Central Asia.
• Evidence gathering assignments in support of applications for sanctions designations submissions filed by clients with the US Treasury against hostile counterparties.
• Investigating allegations of corruption in international arbitration cases, in which we have mainly supported clients in disproving such claims. In recent years bringing allegations of corruption has become an increasing tool used by award debtors as a defensive strategy to obstruct or derail enforcement.
• Investigating allegations of internal fraud, which included identification and cross-examination of witnesses as well as proving testimony to official state bodies.