Industries
Family Offices
Discreet intelligence and protection for principals, their families, and their capital.
Single and multi-family offices operate at the intersection of concentrated wealth, personal privacy, and complex private-market exposure, where a single misjudged partner or undisclosed liability can carry reputational and financial consequences far beyond the deal. Fortaris brings federal investigative pedigree and forensic-accounting depth to the questions a family office cannot afford to get wrong, and every engagement is led by a Managing Director and handled with the confidentiality the principal expects.
How family offices engage Fortaris
Reputational due diligence on principals and partners
Background and integrity assessments on prospective business partners, co-investors, and advisors, surfacing undisclosed litigation, regulatory history, hidden affiliations, and reputational risk before the family commits capital or its name.
Pre-investment vetting of funds and direct deals
Independent diligence on fund managers, sponsors, and operating companies in direct and co-investment opportunities, including forensic review of financials, source-of-wealth analysis, and verification of represented track records.
Senior hire and fiduciary screening
In-depth vetting of CIOs, family-office executives, household principals, and outside fiduciaries entrusted with family assets, combining credential verification with conduct and integrity review.
Executive and principal protection
Threat assessments, protective intelligence, residential and travel security, and digital-footprint reduction for principals and family members exposed by public profile, philanthropy, or wealth visibility.
Discreet sensitive-matter investigations
Confidential inquiries into suspected fraud, internal misconduct, asset misappropriation, extortion, or family disputes, conducted to an evidentiary standard and with strict containment of who learns the matter exists.
Asset tracing and counterparty verification
Locating and corroborating assets, ownership structures, and counterparties in contested transactions, recovery situations, or where representations about wealth and holdings require independent confirmation.
Practices most relevant to family offices
International & Cross-Border Due Diligence
Independent diligence on funds, co-investors, partners, and counterparties across jurisdictions, surfacing source-of-wealth, ownership, sanctions, and reputational risk before capital is committed.
Corporate Intelligence
Reputational and background intelligence on principals, partners, advisors, and senior hires, giving the family office a clear, corroborated view before it lends its name or trust.
Investigative Services
Confidential inquiries into fraud, misconduct, asset misappropriation, and other sensitive matters, conducted discreetly and to an evidentiary standard.
Security Services
Threat assessment, protective intelligence, and executive and principal protection for family members exposed by wealth, philanthropy, or public profile.
Litigation Support & Economic Damages
Forensic accounting, asset tracing, and economic-damages analysis to support the family office in disputes, recovery, and contested transactions.
Why Fortaris
Why family offices choose Fortaris
Family offices retain Fortaris because the work is senior-led, discreet, and built to an evidentiary standard rather than packaged as a database report. Our team pairs federal investigative pedigree, including Former DHS Office of Inspector General, US Treasury, and INS/Border Patrol backgrounds, with CPA forensic-accounting and ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner depth, so a single firm can assess a partner's integrity, dissect a fund's financials, and protect the principal who relies on both. Every engagement is led by a Managing Director, handled with the confidentiality a family's name demands, and delivered nationwide.
Frequently asked
How do you protect the confidentiality of a family office engagement?
Discretion is structural to how we work. Engagements are led directly by a Managing Director, information is shared on a strict need-to-know basis, and our inquiries are designed to contain who learns a matter exists. We routinely work where the principal's name, the existence of a deal, or the fact of an investigation must remain private.
What does pre-investment due diligence on a fund or direct deal include?
It typically combines reputational and background intelligence on the manager or sponsor, independent verification of represented track records, forensic review of financials, source-of-wealth and ownership analysis, and identification of undisclosed litigation, regulatory history, or affiliations, scoped to the size and complexity of the opportunity.
Can you handle both investigative work and physical protection for a principal?
Yes. Because our practices span Corporate Intelligence, Investigative Services, and Security Services, the same firm can run protective-intelligence and threat assessments while also conducting the background and sensitive-matter work behind them, with one Managing Director coordinating across both.
Do you work with multi-family offices and outside advisors?
We do. We are regularly engaged directly by single and multi-family offices, and we also work alongside outside counsel, fiduciaries, and trusted advisors, coordinating to the family's preferred lines of communication and confidentiality requirements.
Is your work usable if a matter later moves to litigation or recovery?
Our investigations are conducted to an evidentiary standard, and our Litigation Support & Economic Damages practice adds forensic accounting, asset tracing, and damages analysis. That means findings developed early can support a later dispute, recovery action, or proceeding if a matter escalates.
Bring Fortaris into the matter.
Every engagement begins with a confidential conversation — led by the Managing Director who will own your matter.