Acuris buys Asian investigations firm Blackpeak

Chris Leahy, the former head of Asia for Kroll, founded Blackpeak in 2011 with Jack Clode, head of Kroll’s Hong Kong office, and Nicholas Bryan-Brown, former co-head of investment banking for Asia Pacific at HSBC. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Blackpeak has over 400 clients worldwide, to which it provides research services including integrity due diligence, internal and external investigations, political risk research. Following the acquisition, the Blackpeak team will join Acuris’ compliance division. The company’s management team and the Blackpeak brand will remain intact.

“With a high-grade proposition that complements Acuris Risk Intelligence’s due diligence offering, Blackpeak is a perfect fit with Acuris Compliance,” said Joel Lange, managing director of Acuris Compliance, in a statement. “Besides broadening our knowledge and customer base across Asian markets, this acquisition brings further in-depth research and analysis capabilities to a growing division. It also complements the Acuris Capital Profile platform.”

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