We verify mining assets, titles, and the people behind them before your capital moves — in a market where the deals that look best on paper are often the ones that were never real, and finding out late is the expensive way.
Most investors who get burned in the Democratic Republic of Congo didn't have bad luck. They had bad information — a permit that wasn't what it seemed, a partner who wasn't who they claimed, a problem that surfaced after the money moved.
Our job is to surface those problems while walking away is still cheap.
We don't sell deals and we don't take a cut when one closes. We work for a fixed fee, agreed up front, and we get paid the same whether our answer is yes or no. That's the only way you can trust the answer.
We hold no positions in anything we assess, and no fee ever depends on a permit or any other government decision.
If an asset doesn't check out, the report says so. Plenty of our value is in the deals our clients didn't do.
FCPA and UK Bribery Act aligned, sanctions screening on every counterparty, and our anti-bribery policy available before you sign anything.
We work with funds, family offices, and operators making their first entry into the DRC — or their first in a long time. It starts with a 45-minute call, no charge. You tell us what you're looking at, or what you're trying to figure out. If we can help, the first engagement is a fixed-fee scoping memo, usually two to four weeks. After that you'll know whether to go deeper, and you're under no obligation to.
We work in English and in French — the language the DRC's registries and records are actually kept in. And if the DRC turns out to be wrong for your mandate, we'll say so on the call and save us both the trouble.
Tell us what you've been offered and what you've been told about it. We'll tell you what we'd need to check — and what we'd be checking for.