DUE DILIGENCE

Gathering Business information or Legal Intelligence or Due Diligence

Whether you are an individual, a small business or limited company Gathering Business or Legal Intelligence or performing Due Diligence is an exercise which can save you money, time, effort and sometimes resolve major personal, business or legal issues.

The term due diligence has legal and business implications and meanings but on a personal level in ones daily life it has its uses and meaning.

Simply put, due diligence refers to the care a reasonable person should take before entering into an agreement or a transaction or relationship with another party.

You can short circuit and kick start the process of looking for vital sources of information that could assist you in your daily business or private life. Civic Empowerment resources enable due diligence, validation of licenses, opportunities for entrepreneurs and so on, and a there are a host of useful public access databases which can yield valuable information.

Why pay expensive fees to a business or legal research company when you can access the information directly from the Public Registers free or for a few dollars? The directory contains portals to land registries, company registries and license validation registers.

Knowing where to find and how to search these resources is not a commonly held skill, even internet search engines cannot always locate the information needed.

Law firms often employ specialist researchers at great cost, yet quite often the information which they collect and collate can be obtained at minimum cost by accessing the registers or databases directly.

Starting with a minimum of information, a complete background picture or profile can be compiled at very little cost and time, by anyone provided they know where to look and how to look. How the picture is interpreted and acted upon is a separate issue.

Knowing where to look is the first step the site provides a useful spring board in the form of an index or directory of legal and business resources and if used intelligently each resource found will add new portals to the researcher's toolkit.