A London firm, founded in 2009

The firm

The company was founded in 2009 and is registered in England and Wales as Sure Step Limited (07896693). The registered office is 39 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6EZ. We are a Full Member of the Association of British Investigators, the only investigations association endorsed for Law Society members, and a registered data controller with the Information Commissioner's Office.

Work is scoped before it starts: subject, jurisdiction, purpose, fee, and turnaround. Reports are written so they can sit on a client file, in a compliance record, or before a court.

How we work

We verify at source. Findings come from official registers and primary records, not from aggregator or credit databases, which are incomplete, lagged, and patchy outside the US and UK. Where a jurisdiction requires in-country access, records are obtained through a vetted local agent network built over nearly two decades, with more than one agent per country so that results can be cross-checked.

Lawful basis and purpose are agreed before any collection begins. Personal data is handled under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Data security by design

Most work is kept in-house rather than farmed out, which keeps data exposure to a minimum. Where local agents are used, tasks are compartmentalised so that no single agent sees the whole enquiry or knows who the client is.