Founded in 2012, Vantage Intelligence is a boutique investigative firm specializing in international human-source intelligence for contentious and high-stakes disputes. The firm is instructed by high-net-worth individuals, corporates, law firms, and institutional investors, and has been involved in uncovering significant frauds and executive misconduct across jurisdictions. Co-founders Gretchen King and Masha Shvetsova lead the business globally. King brings two decades of intelligence experience and drives the firm’s expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey, while Shvetsova focuses on complex research and intelligence work and leads growth in Latin America from Miami.
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Key clients
- Aegis Law Group
- Rowan Financial Management
- Applause Group Inc
- CMS
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart LLP
- Danya Perry Law
- Marks Sokolov LLP
- Sterlington Law
- Susman Godfrey
- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Edwards Henderson LLP
- Invenergy
Work highlights
Uncovered a massive fraud and the misappropriation of USD 15m at NASDAQ-listed Brooge Energy, leading to formal fraud charges by the US SEC against the company and two of its former executives.
Uncovered a large-scale fraud by the former CEO of Valorem Capital involving unauthorized perfume production and distribution networks, and the illegal export of luxury perfumes to Russia in breach of UK and EU sanctions, providing the evidentiary basis for international litigation and press coverage in the BBC and Daily Mail.
Uncovered a complex trans-shipping and grey market network, comprising 18affiliated entities across LatAm, which were re-routing ASICS and ON Running products destined for Paraguay to unauthorized destinations including Russia, France, Kazakhstan and the US.
Practice head
Gretchen King; Masha Shvetsova