A:   For the most up-to-date information from the Commercial Register, you will need to order a Corporate Records Report, which will be extracted from the appropriate registry during the turnaround time and contains any amendments filed with the register regarding change of registered name, address, capital, ownership and directorship of the target company. Where it is legally available, we can also provide Copies of Original Corporate Records.

A:   A Global Compliance Check will check official international lists for this information, Cedar Rose' multilingual and experienced researchers can dig deeper, with a Due Diligence Report on a Business or an Individual. For even greater peace of mind, we can also conduct a Site Visit and provide digital photographs of the alleged premises. The Site Visit and Due Diligence Report can be combined in a Due Diligence with Discreet Site Visit Report. If you would like us to go several steps further, as some large companies and government-owned entities have commissioned us to do to ensure they are trading entirely ethically, we can conduct an Enhanced Due Diligence Report. This will involve not only conducting a thorough due diligence investigation of the company, retrieving official corporate information and researching the media for any negative press; it also includes local reputation checks and business relationship analysis. Additionally, the report identifies any related companies and affiliates through shareholding/directorships or management by the principals of the subject company or those companies that share the same particulars of address as the subject, for example. Additional research can be quoted and conducted in addition to trace back to the ultimate beneficiary ownership.

A:   The multilingual researchers at Cedar Rose can carry out Local Reputational Due Diligence on an individual or business entity. We can also conduct a Full Internet Media Search in all local languages of internet portals, search engines and newspapers/periodicals to reveal red flag and adverse information translated into English.

A:   Yes. Cedar Rose researchers can carry out PEP Screening to disclose whether the subject is politically exposed or has close family members that are politically connected. PEP Screening is conducted via the largest PEP database in the world containing over 1.1 million profiles of PEPs, with over 25,000 individuals added each month. At Cedar Rose we have a unique in-house translation and transliteration dictionary of Arabic to English/French names, which we will use to ensure that all possible translations of the subject's name are searched.

A:   We can provide a Directorship and Shareholding Report on a company or on an individual that will unveil direct relationships with other companies, which the subject is a shareholder or a director of. In the majority of the countries we cover and particularly the MENA region, there are no official public records sources to check and obtain the above information from, as such information is not always electronically compiled nor is it centralized in many of the countries covered. The data will be obtained from CRiS - Cedar Rose’s database compiled since 1997 and containing data on millions of businesses and their owners within the MENA region. The search might not be 100 percent comprehensive, but it is the only search available of its type for the region and we believe that a CRiS Directorship and Shareholding subscription is the best resource for link analysis of businesses to other companies and people, and vice versa.

A:   Yes, Cedar Rose has many options for background screening of potential employees, including Education and Employment History Verification and a combined report. For more high profile positions, we can also carry out Pre-Employment Screening to include verifying the identity of the individual, establishing their employment history and in many countries (where available), checking court records and criminal records. For Pre-Employment Check with Local Language Adverse Media Screening, we also include a local language adverse media search, providing the links to any negative media reports. Our Background Screening services may seem expensive and slow compared to those provided in other countries. This is due to the nature of the MENA region and the poor infrastructure in many countries, locating and contacting previous schools, universities, employers and government departments can be difficult and very time consuming. Sourcing historical records can often involve manual searches through paper files; which again can take a lot of time, patience and effort.

A:   In some of the countries we cover, it is legally possible to obtain Copies of Official Certificates and Copies of Original Corporate Records . In many cases, our local operatives can extract the data from original corporate records (even if we are unable to obtain original copies) and supply this in a Corporate Records Report , in the English language.

A:   A Debt Collection Database Search is currently available only for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and GCC countries. In other countries, we can carry out a Court Records Search. In Lebanon, we can also provide a Civil Litigation & Bankruptcy Check or a Criminal, Civil Litigation & Bankruptcy Check on a Company/Entity or Individual which will include unpaid debts as well as bankruptcies, asset seizures, public auctions and civil litigation cases.

A:   In many countries, Cedar Rose can carry out a Court Records Search. For full details for a particular country, please Contact Us.

A:   For searches against international crime watch lists, association with sanctions lists, convictions, criminal records, liens, felonies, fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, alleged terrorism, violent and sexual crimes from sources such as the UN, Interpol, Bank of England, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) etc, Cedar Rose can conduct a Global Compliance Check . According to your country of residence, this report can be invaluable in ensuring you comply with trading laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (USA) and the Bribery Act 2010 (UK), amongst others.