Kunal Gupta
Senior Partner – Forensic Investigation, Data Analytics & Risk Consulting
Lawyer · Company Secretary · Certified Fraud Examiner · 12+ years
Corporate Intelligence
Asset Tracing
Locating and mapping hidden, undisclosed or dissipated assets across property, banking and corporate structures, and building the trail to recover them.
Where we look
- Real estate, land and property holdings
- Bank and financial accounts
- Corporate shareholdings and directorships
- Nominee, benami and family-held structures
- Movable, luxury and lifestyle assets
- Cross-border and offshore holdings
Finding what has been hidden, moved or disguised, and building the trail to recover it. We go well beyond declared holdings: mining corporate registries, property records and financial trails, mapping the subject's spouse, relatives, nominees and associated entities, and confirming occupancy and control on the ground, so that lenders, resolution professionals and counsel have the evidentiary basis to seek attachment and enforce.
How we do it
Our method
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Registry & record mining
Property, corporate and financial public-record research.
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Corporate link analysis
Tracing ownership routed through connected entities.
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Discreet field verification
Confirming occupancy, control and use on the ground.
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Nominee mapping
Connecting relatives, associates and front-holders.
Deliverables
- Asset schedule and valuations
- Ownership map
- Recovery-support dossier
Where asset tracing plugs in
- Enforcement of awards and decrees: locating the assets behind an award or decree, including layered corporate structures and assets moved to relatives, to support execution and attachment.
- Insolvency: locating promoter and personal guarantor assets, including benami structures and assets moved to family members, to support Section 95 proceedings and post-resolution recovery.
- Securities matters: tracing diverted funds and promoter assets in fund-diversion and market manipulation matters to support recovery, disgorgement and settlement discussions.
- Lenders: reviving personal-guarantee recoveries that had been written off on the assumption that there was nothing left to recover.
The golden rule
Nothing is reported until it has been independently corroborated. A single source is a lead, never a finding. Every finding is triangulated across independent sources and documented to withstand legal and regulatory scrutiny. That is what makes our intelligence usable in a boardroom, a negotiation or a courtroom.
How we engage
Discreet by design. Pretext identities and strict need-to-know handling ensure the subject never learns an enquiry is underway.
Lawful and ethical. We rely on open sources, lawful enquiry and legitimate field methods. No illegal access, ever.
Confidential handling. Strict data-privacy adherence (DPDP / GDPR), secure processing and anonymised, controlled reporting.
Flexible deliverables. Verbal briefings, red-flag alerts or full evidentiary dossiers, scoped to your objective and timeline.
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Confidential briefing
You tell us the question and the sensitivities.
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Fixed-scope proposal
A defined objective, method and timeline.
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Discreet execution
Field, telephone and open-source enquiry by trained investigators.
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Defensible report
Findings, red flags and recommended next steps, independently corroborated.
Case studies
How it plays out in practice.
Illustrative composites. Names, figures and timelines are indicative; no client is identifiable.
Also in Investigations
- Internal InvestigationsCounsel-led fact-finding with forensic execution. Findings that hold up before boards, audit committees, auditors and regulators.
- Crisis Management & Regulatory ResponseA written crisis protocol, role-specific preparation and a rehearsed first-72-hours response, so every function knows what is expected of it when a regulator arrives unannounced or an enforcement action begins.
- Digital Forensics & E-Discovery ReviewsDefensible preservation, recovery and review of digital evidence across devices, mailboxes, chat and logs, turned into an evidence trail that stands up before regulators and courts.
- Market IntelligenceDiscreet market, vendor and competitor enquiry through pretext outreach, discreet calls and on-ground checks. Understanding the market as it really is: priced, positioned and behaving.
- OSINT & Desktop ProfilingDeep open-source research and digital-footprint analysis to profile entities and individuals remotely and at scale. A complete picture, built entirely from open, lawful sources.
- Skip TracingLocating absconding individuals, from debtors and guarantors to fraudsters, and confirming their whereabouts on the ground.
How an engagement starts
Tell us what you can’t see.
Every engagement starts with a confidential conversation. No matter is too early, or too sensitive, to raise. A partner replies within one working day.
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A 30-minute call
To align on the question, the team and the sites involved.
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A fixed-scope proposal
A tailored scope and fee note within five working days.
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Discreet execution
Small senior teams, conflict-checked, DPDP and GDPR compliant handling.