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Individual/Corporate Profiles
Business Transactions - Due Diligence
Business/Partnership Dissolution Services
Background and Pre-employment Vetting
Intellectual Property Investigations
Executive/Personal Protection
Apostille Authentication of Documents

Why Target Research LLC?

• Professional and experienced investigators and researchers
• Access to hundreds of public and proprietary databases
• Direct access to Dun & Bradstreet
• Direct access to Dow Jones and other business databases
• Nationwide network of researchers and document retrievers
• Direct access to Department of Motor Vehicle Dept. records (not all states)
• Coordination with litigation support and other services
• Affiliated investigators in Europe and Asia
• Prompt, complete, well written reports

Individual/Corporate Profiles

If you are involved with business acquisitions, mergers, dissolutions, or have any need to conduct due diligence, we conduct extensive research concerning any target, including individuals, business entities, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities, including:

Research is conducted through on-line public and proprietary databases as well as through publicly available documents. We work with you to clarify and coordinate your research.  We confine our services to comport with various federal and state privacy rules. 

When you are in litigation, or contemplating litigation, we can further extend research to locate and acquire publicly available documents which may be pertinent to your situation. 
 

Business Transactions - Due Diligence

Due diligence generally requires more extensive research than our standard individual or business profile. We can research and profile key personnel, employees, and business associates.   We research the target firm's business credit profiles, D&B and other business reports.  For certain individuals, including key personnel, we access a copy of his/her consumer credit report (pursuant to FFCRA).  Research is extended to include more complete information concerning the target's real and personal assets as well as any copyrights, trademarks, patents and other intangibles.  Field interviews may also be conducted with key personnel and other witnesses.
 

As businesses look to amicably dissolve, we can help with document filing at any government office.  We can assist in name availability and any licensing requirements as may be required in any jurisdiction for key personnel who may wish to reform the business to continue on. 

When partners or businesses owners reach a point of acrimony where they are actively seeking to resign, or remove themselves or otherwise dissolve the business, they may have concerns which we can help address.  Proprietary assets, including trade secrets, may fall into the hands of competitors.  Partners or other key personnel may be actively engaged in setting up new, competing businesses, or may be seeking to join existing competitors.   We can investigate any and all of these activities.  We can surveil individuals and safeguard company facilities.  We can provide electronic bug detection services. 

ARE YOU ARE DEALING WITH AN ACRIMONIOUS OR
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS INTERNAL OR INTER-BUSINESS CONTROVERSY? 
We provide executive protection services as may be needed.
 

These services include all the research which is included in our standard individual profiling service.  We also access the individual's consumer credit report (upon his/her written consent) and we verify the individual's stated education, prior employment, and professional licensing history.
 

We provide third party purchasing of counterfeit and unauthorized merchandise.  We conduct undercover investigators (including those licensed in other professions) to interact with individuals and businesses in researching the proper use and sale of copyright, trademark and patented properties.
 

Executive/Personal Protection

All executive/personal protection services are directed by our board member and director, Warren Levicoff.  Mr. Levicoff is a certified firearm instructor and has provided such training to law enforcement, military and private security personnel in the United States and around the world.  He is licensed to carry concealed firearms in 30 states and elsewhere.  All protection services are provided by very well experienced and very well trained individuals.  Services provided in the United States, Europe and Asia.  
 

"The purpose of an authentication (or in the case of countries party to the Hague Legalization Convention – an apostille) is to ensure the authorities in one country that a public document coming from another country is genuine so that it may be recognized in that first country. In the case of traditional legalizations this is done through the chain method of authentication, whereby public authorities authenticate the signature and seal serially from the origin of the document through each level of government authority. Finally, diplomatic channels are used to pass the chain of authentication from one country to the other.

In the case of apostilles, the chain is done away with in favor of a single act of authentication carried out by the apostille authority designated in the Hague Convention. For documents coming from U.S. states, the United States has designated the Secretary of State offices in each state to issue apostilles. Therefore, unlike with traditional authentications (e.g., with China, which is not a party to the Hague Convention), the ... state apostille goes directly to the foreign authority without passing through the Department of State (e.g., with Russian, which is a party to the Hague Convention). It must therefore withstand foreign scrutiny without the benefit of Department of State authentication."*

We can handle each step of the process you may need in authenticating documents for use in a foreign country from any state or jurisdiction in the United States.  This includes locating the proper government office wherein the document is filed, complying with laws and rules to acquire copies and authenticate those documents from the lowest governmental level to the appropriate Department of State.

• Birth certificates
• Death certificates
• Marriage certificates
• Court Orders / Decrees (including divorce decrees)
• Notarized documents of any kind

* Excerpts from November 26, 2003 letter by Jeffrey D. Kovar, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, U.S. Department of State

For more information, visit the U.S. Department of State, Office of Authentications