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Know Your Clients Before You Accept the Matter

Corporate intelligence that helps law firms investigate clients, counterparties and corporate structures before taking on risk. Not an AML system – the sourced, defensible research that feeds one.

Every new client brings opportunity – and risk

Law firms are under increasing pressure to understand exactly who they’re acting for. Whether you’re advising on mergers and acquisitions, commercial property, corporate restructuring, trusts or cross-border transactions, accepting the wrong client can expose your firm to financial crime, regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage.

Basic identity verification isn’t enough. To make informed decisions, you need to understand the company, the people behind it and the wider corporate network.

VerityRadar helps legal professionals uncover the information that matters before instructions are accepted or transactions proceed.

Go beyond compliance

Meeting AML obligations is only part of the picture. VerityRadar enables your team to investigate companies, directors, shareholders, beneficial owners and connected entities from a single platform.

Instead of searching multiple databases, company registries and online sources, your lawyers can access a consolidated view of corporate intelligence in minutes. That means more time advising clients and less time conducting manual research.

Why legal teams choose VerityRadar

Investigate corporate clients

Understand who owns and controls the businesses you’re acting for.

Understand ownership structures

Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners wherever the register publishes them – and where it doesn’t.

Strengthen client onboarding

Support your firm’s client acceptance and risk assessment processes with deeper corporate intelligence.

Assess counterparties

Investigate companies involved in transactions before contracts are signed.

Save valuable fee-earner time

Reduce manual research by bringing corporate intelligence together in one place.

Evidence you can put on file

Every finding links back to the record it came from, ready for the client file.

Why VerityRadar

Six things that hold up when someone asks.

Every finding, traced to its source.

Every finding links back to the document it came from – the OFAC listing, the court filing, the registry entry. Where a source can’t be produced, the finding is marked unsupported and can never drive a high-risk score.

An evidence pack, not a PDF.

Enterprise reports export as a signed evidence pack, sealed under a detached RS256 signature. Your counterparty verifies it against our published public key, without taking our word for it.

Seven years, on record, by design.

Every screening’s audit record is held for a minimum of seven years; the setting that shortens it doesn’t exist, because AUSTRAC’s floor is a floor.

Risk scores you can explain.

Every score comes with a plain-English breakdown of what drove it – which findings, which sources, which category of risk. Your team can stand behind it because they understand it.

Ownership tracing that follows the OFAC 50% rule.

Sanctioned stakes are aggregated, and a parent that is itself 50%-owned counts in full rather than being diluted down the chain. That’s what surfaces the sanctioned party hiding two entities back.

A defensible answer in minutes.

Manual screening eats hours of senior associate time. VerityRadar returns a structured, sourced risk report in minutes – up to three for sanctions cases.

Frequently asked questions

Legal Departments & Law Firms – common questions.

How can law firms perform better client due diligence?

Law firms can strengthen client due diligence by investigating company ownership, directors, shareholders, beneficial owners, regulatory history and adverse media before accepting instructions. VerityRadar brings this information together in one platform, making investigations faster and more comprehensive.

What is enhanced due diligence for law firms?

Enhanced due diligence (EDD) is a deeper investigation carried out when a client or transaction presents a higher level of risk. It often includes reviewing ownership structures, related entities, sanctions, adverse media and corporate relationships.

How does VerityRadar support an AML programme?

By doing the research your programme depends on. It helps legal professionals understand the businesses and people behind transactions, supporting stronger customer due diligence and informed risk assessments – with every finding traceable to the document it came from.

Can VerityRadar investigate overseas companies?

Yes. VerityRadar enables firms to investigate companies operating across multiple jurisdictions, helping legal teams assess ownership structures, corporate relationships and potential risks before engaging with international clients or counterparties.

Who within a law firm uses VerityRadar?

VerityRadar is designed for partners, lawyers, compliance managers, risk teams, client onboarding teams and business acceptance committees involved in due diligence and client risk assessment.

Is VerityRadar an AML platform?

No. VerityRadar is a corporate intelligence platform. It complements AML and KYC processes rather than replacing them: every report carries the AML-relevant findings — sanctions, PEP and beneficial-ownership screening, each linked to its source — but the programme, the workflow and the reporting obligations remain yours.

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