ALL CORPORATE & BUSINESS INVESTIGATIONS;

DATA SEARCHES, HIDDEN & MISSING ASSETS, CYBER-DIGITAL FORENSICS, COURT EVIDENCE,
​MONEY LAUNDERING, ANTI-TRUST, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT,
​COUNTERFEITING, ELECTRONIC COUNTER-MEASURES, RISK MANAGEMENT ET ALL.

Our Full List​ of Business Investigations and Corporate Level Services

Evidence, Proof and hard facts combine to win a court case, decisively. Sometimes these facts are found in public records, through the Internet and confidential or on secret data-base research not available to the public or even The Police.

Also by identifying and interviewing key sources, through the application of forensic accounting, confidential informants, and computer forensics skills and from other investigative methods.

At Watson's successful investigations depend on finding secret and hidden facts or assets. Facts that the opposition parties do not wish to have known

​The successful outcome of any investigation often requires a combination of these techniques by a seasoned investigator that has the ability to recognize potential leads and follow them.

Our investigative consultants that include retired senior intelligence and law enforcement officers, former armed forces and professional investigators all of whom have such skills.

Our Senior partners and Principal Investigators, Mr. John [ Jack] Watson and Mr. Peter Wyatt, have been in this business for well over 35 years.

Whether conducting an investigation relating to:​

• Business and Corporate Due Diligence
• Complex Litigation, Fraud, Business Intelligence
• Background Checks, Identity or Veracity Checks
• Internal Corporate or Board Member's trust matters
• Local or International inquiries
• Intellectual Property Theft Or Loss
• Any other serious business issues, sex harrasment?​

Watson Investigations draw upon a wealth of investigative experience Techniques like Cyber or Digital data searches and worldwide resources that it brings to bear on every new investigation.

Data  Searches , Confidential  Inquiries

​We take great care to gather evidence in an admissible fashion so as not to jeopardize its potential use in court.
A few examples of our work include:

​If criminal or civil evidence exists, we’ll pursue legal and just ways to obtain it.

Evidence retrieval, whether forensic or not, may require positioning an operative where the evidence is legally available. Perhaps it means issuing legal orders, compelling the evidence’s release. Or sometimes, it’s as basic as locating discarded information from the office or home of the suspected wrongdoer. Our Private Investigators' information gathering experts will get the evidence you need.

​Evidence Analysis

Next is evidence analysis, which is probably as important as, or perhaps even more important than, the evidence acquisition itself. In fact, forensic evidence investigative methods often solve the crime.

Our Digital or Cyber Forensic evidence specialists know how to cull the smallest and often most telling, information from highly unlikely sources.

It’s not unusual that a minuscule fiber found on a piece of clothing points directly towards the guilty party. We’ll put our forensic evidence experts to work—and they’ll prove guilt or innocence in ways that will amaze you.
Don’t take evidence retrieval and analysis into your own hands. It could mean the destruction of valuable evidence, and the compromise of your investigation. Instead, call our Investigators today!
If evidence exists, we’ll find it, obtain it and analyze it—professionally, thoroughly and discreetly—and solve your Problem

Money Laundering​

​Could someone be laundering money through your corporation?
​​Illegal drug sales generate more and more cash each year, and as a result, drug traffickers and other criminals are continually finding new ways to launder dirty money.

Federal laws targeting money laundering at banks and other financial institutions are forcing traffickers to seek "non-bank" institutions through which they play their dirty games.

Many major corporations are insufficiently aware of their vulnerability to money laundering activity—Are you?

Watson's expertise will help you uncover even the most subtle and sophisticated money laundering schemes.
We’re familiar with all the red flags that indicate suspicious financial activity in both bank and non-bank institutions, and can trace and document all such activity until the entire money laundering process is revealed.

​In addition to unparalleled Cyber methods, Watson's also brings you a proactive anti money laundering prevention program designed to keep your business “dirty money” free.

We will help you establish procedures for customer background searches, employee and compliance officer training programs, and regular ad hoc audits to help your business restore—and maintain—your legal and ethical standards.
Watson's money laundering detection and prevention programs are proven, cost-effective and dependable.
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​With increased legislation against corporations involved in laundering money, including stiff penalties and broad asset forfeiture provisions, you can no longer afford to assume money laundering is somebody else's problem.

Risk Management/ Safety Security / Kidnapping and Extortion

The ever-changing nature of the global business climate creates a challenging environment for the Risk Management professional. Your broad scope of responsibility, from creating a risk management plan and handling project risk management, to staying on top of new legal and regulatory information, and identifying and evaluating new risks and liability exposures, can be daunting even if you’re the most capable professional.

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WATSON'S Investigations  is the solution for many Business and Law firms—from devising a risk management plan to actually implementing a risk management program. As the leader in Corporate Security & Investigation Strategies, we are uniquely equipped to help you with various risk management services including:

• Government or Regulators Compliance.
• Anti-Money Laundering
• Employee Theft/Stock losses/Industrial Espionage/Infiltration.
• Asset Misappropriation. Non Delivered goods. Disappearing Marine and Land Cargo. Cargo Container Losses, at Sea or on land.
• Physical or Digital Security Breaches

Pre-Court Litigation Research

​​WATSON'S Investigations  brings you a wide variety of litigation support services, from on-the-scene and pre-trial investigation research to concluding analysis and expert testimony.

Our litigation support specialists provide the information and advisory services you need to substantiate material allegations, locate and determine motives of witnesses, and analyze exhibits and critical facts.

We understand that Solicitors, Trial Lawyers and Barristers frequently operate under time constraints, and we make ourselves available on short notice.

​Whether we’re investigating employee theft, embezzlement, fraud, forgery or other illegal internal financial activities, our litigation support services team completes each assignment quickly and carefully, with the highest degree of professionalism and discretion.

 Are you faced with the unpleasant reality of taking legal action towards another individual or company?
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And does the litigation involve securing documents from your opponent’s computer, as ordered by a court of law?

Our Corporate Investigators' team of computer Digital-Cyber forensics expert investigators provides professional and discreet computer litigation support providing hidden and secret evidence not previously discovered, on purpose...

We’ll secure the information you need as quickly and as efficiently as possible. And by using time-tested procedures related to computer litigation support, we will ensure the evidence secured is admissible in court, and that it maintains its integrity throughout the custody process.

We have provided invaluable computer litigation support for a wide variety of cases, from those of Forbes and Fortune 500 companies to individual citizens involved in private litigation. ​

​If You Need PRE TRIAL Litigation Support 
Call  Watson Investigations today 

Intellectual Property Protection

​Is there anything more valuable than your company's good name and reputation?  We think not. In fact, losing either could be fatal to your organization's existence. One sure way for that to happen is for a competitor or other company to use your intellectual property in a detrimental way.

Protecting your intellectual property, client's list, costing's or profit data is difficult, but possible. After all, you’ve poured your dollars into research to develop a winning product or service—why let imitators copy your ideas? They profit from your research, development and hard work, or smear your company’s name.
​Watson Investigations is one of the world’s foremost intellectual property protection firm. We’ve earned that reputation by creating and implementing a number of systems, products and services, all of which effectively eliminate Intellectual Property Theft and Image Deterioration.

Brand Protection

Watson Investigations proprietary Internet monitoring and brand protection programs give you security and keep thieves at bay. We’ll help you:

• Maintain a favourable online image
• Know what’s being said about your company online
• Stop flaming sites that exist at your firm’s expense
• Shield your corporate trade secrets from hackers
• Track down individuals who are damaging your reputation online
• Protect your intellectual property from the prying eyes of cyber thieves. ​

In the 1980's we at Watson Investigations thought Intellectual property and brand protection was difficult.
​But since circa 1994 and the introduction and successive popularity of the Internet & then the dark web, we found out what “difficult” really means.
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Millions visit the World Wide Web daily, and its certain future growth makes Internet monitoring and brand management protection a vital aspect of doing business online.

After all, how else can you be sure that there aren’t imitators out there copying your product or competitors using the World Wide Web as a weapon—denigrating your products or services to millions of believing viewers?

​Over the last few years an entirely new set of crimes and criminals have cropped up and are at the forefront of brand management protection issues.

​Web statistics prove our concern, as do the existence of “flaming sites,” one of the fastest growing forms of websites found on the Internet today. A flaming site is one that’s created for the sole purpose of posting damaging accusations about your company or product.

Cyber criminals work to damage your company by using anonymous email addresses and identities. They assume that you can’t track them down and figure out their identities. But they’re wrong. Watson Investigations  has a method to successfully track down and stop cyber criminals.

​Our unique Internet monitoring process tracks their movements online. We then reverse these movements, and backtrack through the Internet nodes until we can pinpoint their identity. To help you protect your image, and give you secure brand protection, we’ve virtually eliminated the cyber criminal’s ability to hide from the law.

If you’re concerned about your brand management protection and are interested in our Internet monitoring programs, take the next logical step.
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Learn more about our Private Investigators state-of-the-art proprietary software, which in conjunction with our world-renowned investigative tactics, have helped protect hundreds of firms from damaged reputations and lost revenue by Internet monitoring and brand management protection.

​Trademark, Copyright & Patent Investigation

The idea for your new corporate logo is decidedly brilliant. So you pursue the next step and hire an artist,​
​who for a hefty price will immortalize your firm forever.

Right? Wrong!

Every day, many companies just like yours make the mistake of committing large amounts of time and money to a trademark only to find out that another firm across the country is using the exact same image to brand their company name.

How can you be sure this doesn’t happen to you? Make sure you get trademark clearance from Watson Investigations. We specialize in the areas of trademark search and trademark investigation.

What if you don’t? What if you go ahead with the trademark generation without a trademark search or intellectual property investigation, and later find it to be identical to an already existing trademark? The ramifications could be devastating, and may undermine your firm’s financial stability.

You’d also be legally liable to pay damages to the original trademark owner, leading to financial losses that could devastate your firm’s capital structure.

​Protect Your Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents

At Watson Investigations we're also able to conduct full national and international market surveys of your existing trademarks and copyrights. Our research has no bounds. All markets and industries can be investigated for illegal use of your intellectual property.

According to recent statistics, the epidemic of trademark, copyright and patent infringements is growing at an exponential rate. Through advancements in technology and the explosive growth of the Internet, access to your prized intellectual property is exposed, more than ever before, to unscrupulous individuals looking to cash in on your good name and reputation.

These infringements, if not detected early, lead to dilution and fair market use of your properties without compensation. Intellectual property and trademark investigations, copyright investigations and patent infringement suits can be difficult, exhausting your time and resources.

Let the professional investigators and researchers at Watson Investigations handle your trademark and copyright investigations. We’ll protect you from infringements, and make sure you’re not found guilty of the same yourself, with efficient and cost effective solutions.

When you want total protection for your prized intellectual property. We’re the firm of choice for many of the Fortune & Forbes 500, and would be happy to help you secure or protect your trademark, copyright or patent today.

Without the help of Watson Investigations maintaining a watchful eye on one's intellectual property can be a difficult task, especially when that property is something as easily reproduced as text, music, software or some other medium that doesn't require sophisticated equipment to duplicate.

Pictures, words, original creative works... with recent technological breakthroughs and our increasingly global economy, everything is fair game, and often there seems to be little or no recourse that an owner can take.

The Internet, once a relatively modest collection of personal homepages, budding storefronts and technology-related forums, has swelled into a worldwide mainstream phenomenon brimming with copyright infringement.

Cutting and pasting is the order of the day, and it has grown to such an extent that many owners are forced to employ technical tricks to keep people from stealing their original text and photos. Books are posted online in their entirety hours after being released.

And let's not forget the most widely publicized method of infringement, the rampant copying and distributing of music, movies and software through use of file sharing networks and disc burning utilities.

On the World Wide Web, as also on the Dark Net or hidden Deep web, copyright infringement is practically ubiquitous, and to those who develop the content in the first place, the effects can be quite detrimental. The very existence of copied content often leads to the dilution of brand appeal, reputation damage, and direct loss of revenue.

We have a system that seeks out instances of plagiarism and copyright infringement online and in traditional media, locates the entities responsible, and puts a stop to the unauthorized activity.

Whether you’re concerned about students liberally borrowing from previous works, someone stealing your website content or the unauthorized use of your original creations, our Private Investigators can work wonders to protect your interests and valuable intellectual property assets.