We are seeking an experienced business-intelligence and complex-investigations practitioner to join our client in Singapore at Director level. The successful candidate will lead delivery on due-diligence, asset-tracing and corporate-intelligence workstreams under Partner-led engagement strategy and source-handling direction, operate as a senior delivery practitioner alongside Partners during investigation and reporting windows, and build the named-account and law-firm-partner relationships that underpin future origination at Senior Director and Partner level. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and tooling are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new business intelligence and complex investigations practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented intelligence and investigations practitioners to make safe exits to launch rewarding new careers, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery on complex pre-transaction due-diligence (CDD), management-background, reputational and political-risk investigations on M&A, private-equity, infrastructure, sovereign-wealth and family-office mandates - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and source-handling direction - delivering hypothesis design, source mix, written deliverable and adversarial-context defensibility, while building the named-account and law-firm-partner networks that underpin future personal origination at Senior Director and Partner level.
• Lead delivery on adversarial-context asset-tracing workstreams on civil-recovery, judgment-enforcement and pre-litigation matters: capital-movement reconstruction, beneficial-ownership unwinding through BVI / Cayman / Mauritius / Bahamas / Trust-and-Foundation structures, and integration with civil-recovery counsel on Mareva and proprietary-injunction applications.
• Design and oversee OSINT, OSINF and HUMINT collection programmes under ethical codes (ABI, WAEPA, IBE) and PDPA-aligned source-handling protocols; run multi-language and cross-border records aggregation including SG ACRA, HK Companies Registry, BVI / Cayman / Mauritius public-records routes, IRAS and tax filings where lawful.
• Deliver subject-centric investigations on integrity-and-fitness reviews, counterparty risk reviews under sanctions-and-PEP overlays, and red-flag risk reports for board and audit-committee instruction under Partner direction.
• Lead delivery on political-risk and country-risk advisory mandates across Southeast Asia, Greater China, India and South Asia, including expropriation-risk reviews, regulatory-shift forecasting and sovereign-counterparty profiling.
• Build emerging client relationships and contribute to named-account development at General Counsel, CFO, Head of M&A, Managing Partner of PE houses, CIO of family offices and Audit Committee Chair level, and at relevant law firm partner level - under Partner direction.
• Mentor and advocate for managers and senior managers - supporting their delivery on intelligence tradecraft and investigations methodology, championing their development needs at engagement-staffing rounds, and sponsoring their upskilling on emerging methodology and AI tooling - and apply industry-standard intelligence tooling at investigation depth in support of investigative outcomes.
• Maintain registered-investigator status under the Singapore Private Security Industry Act 2007 (PSIA) where required for licensable activities; ensure engagement compliance with PDPA, PSIA and TSOFA / sanctions overlays.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Recognised intelligence, investigations or legal credential, such as PI Licence under the Singapore PSIA, CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE), CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, ACAMS), ICA Diploma in Compliance / Financial Crime, ABI / WAEPA membership, or qualified lawyer status (Singapore Bar / common-law-equivalent practising certificate).
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in business intelligence, corporate investigations, asset-tracing, OSINT-led research, political-risk advisory, intelligence-services background or qualified-legal practice with substantive direct exposure to investigations work.
• Demonstrable track record of leading delivery on pre-transaction due-diligence, adversarial-context asset-tracing or political-risk advisory engagements - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and source-handling direction, delivering hypothesis design, source mix and written deliverable.
• Direct experience working with senior client stakeholders (General Counsel, CFO, Head of M&A, Managing Partner / CIO at PE / hedge-fund / family-office level) and instructing solicitors at partner level.
• Working knowledge of the Singapore intelligence-and-investigations framework: the Private Security Industry Act 2007 (PSIA) and Singapore Police Force licensable-investigator registration, PDPA lawful-collection grounds for HUMINT / OSINT, the Strategic Goods (Control) Act for technology-counterparty review, TSOFA / TFSA financial-sanctions framework, the Computer Misuse Act 1993 for source-handling boundaries, and the Penal Code provisions relevant to investigations (such as theft-of-information and trespass).
• Working knowledge of subject-centric investigations methodology: hypothesis-driven research design, multi-language and cross-border records aggregation, beneficial-ownership unwinding through cross-jurisdictional structures, HUMINT cultivation and source-handling under the ABI / WAEPA / IBE ethical codes, and adversarial-context defensibility frameworks.
• Familiarity with industry-standard business-intelligence tooling, including entity-resolution and graph-intelligence platforms (such as Sayari Graph, Castellum.AI, Refinitiv World-Check, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance or LexisNexis Bridger), corporate-records and credit-data platforms (such as Bureau Van Dijk Orbis, Pitchbook, Mergermarket or Capital IQ), social-media intelligence platforms (such as Babel Street or Maltego), court-records aggregators across multiple jurisdictions, and local-language records (Companies House, ACRA, HK CR, BVI / Cayman / Mauritius registries) at investigations depth.
• High-agency operating style with strong judgement under tight engagement deadlines and the methodological discipline to ensure findings are evidence-based, structured and defensible against subject challenge or counsel challenge.
• Calm, credible communication style suited to senior PE / family-office / counsel reporting and high-trust source handling.

Preferred Experience:

• Prior background in intelligence services (such as the Singapore Police Force, the SAF intelligence community or international peers), investigative journalism (such as ICIJ-affiliated publications or Bloomberg / FT / Reuters investigations desks) or specialist corporate-intelligence boutiques.
• Multiple stacking credentials at senior-leadership level - the recognised pattern in this market.
• Postgraduate study in international relations, security studies, intelligence studies, journalism, finance, governance or law.
• Multilingual capability (Mandarin, Bahasa, Hokkien, Hindi, Tamil) for regional source handling and records aggregation.
• Cross-border investigations experience across Southeast Asia, Greater China, India and South Asia.
• Track record of converting one-off engagements into multi-year retainer or standing-monitor work.
• Established or emerging relationships with law firm partners in commercial litigation, white-collar crime, regulatory enforcement, M&A litigation, asset-recovery and internal-investigations practices who instruct business-intelligence and asset-tracing work.
• Continuous-learning posture and active engagement with the AI developments reshaping business intelligence and complex investigations: candidates who track tooling shifts (such as AI-assisted OSINT and entity-resolution via Sayari Graph or Castellum.AI, LLM-aided source-language translation, or ML-driven beneficial-ownership inference), share that knowledge with managers and senior managers, and have a track record of supporting team upskilling on emerging methodologies.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Singaporeans, Singapore permanent residents, and qualified candidates with relevant work-rights status who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist business intelligence and complex investigations recruitment consultant.

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