Reading a nominee structure without guessing
What a registry can and cannot tell you about who really controls a company.
Independent due diligence · Screening · Integrity research
Trust, established on the record.
Bulca & Partners verifies who a counterparty, client or candidate actually is, and documents it so the decision can be explained to a committee, an auditor or a regulator years later. Scope, depth and format are set by your requirement, not by a fixed product.
NDA before scopingNamed analyst on every fileDelivered in your format
Verification record · summary viewExample · anonymised
Subject
Identity confirmedRegistry match
Sanctions & watchlistsNo match
Political exposure1 to review
Adverse media3 material
Ownership & controlTraced to UBO
Analyst note: one political relationship by marriage, disclosed in 2019 filings. Enhanced monitoring recommended; no basis to decline.
Summary views, board packs, full narrative reports or a structured feed, we produce whichever suits how your team reviews and files evidence.
In the field9 years
Files delivered1,400+
Jurisdictions60+
Working languagesSeven
Second-analyst reviewEvery file
What we are for
Three things a diligence file has to do.
01
Establish identity
Confirm the person or company exists as described, at the registry, in the licence, on the filing.
02
Surface what matters
Separate a genuine concern from a name collision, and state how confident we are in each finding.
03
Stand up later
Leave a cited, dated record that defends the decision long after everyone involved has moved on.
Twelve checks, in three groups.
All services →Screening & monitoring
Sanctions & watchlistsPEP & state-owned entitiesAdverse mediaOngoing monitoring
Diligence & investigation
Enhanced due diligenceUBO & ownership researchSource of wealth & fundsLitigation & court records
Verification & integrity
KYC for individualsKYB & corporate verificationEmployment & senior-hire vettingESG & integrity risk
Ways of working
Engage us the way your process actually runs.
Nothing here is a fixed package. Each model is a starting point we shape around your policy, volumes and reporting lines.
Model 01
Single engagement
One subject, one decision. Scope and fee agreed before work starts, with the depth set by what the decision needs.
Suits transactions, onboarding exceptions and senior hires.Model 02
Programme
Recurring checks against your own policy tiers, with agreed service levels, review cadence and a single point of contact.
Suits onboarding pipelines, supplier and portfolio reviews.Model 03
Embedded support
Analyst capacity alongside your team for a defined period, remediation, backlog clearance, or cover during a build-out.
Suits remediation programmes and lean compliance functions.Why clients stay
The analyst who researched your file is the one who answers for it.
Deliberately senior, deliberately small. No account layer between you and the person reading the records.
Judgement, not a score
Automation retrieves and translates. An analyst decides what it means and signs it.
Records read in the original
Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, French and Turkish sources, not English summaries of them.
Scope agreed up front
Fee and timeline confirmed before work starts, and re-agreed with you if the scope has to move.
Defensible after the fact
Every conclusion traceable to a dated, archived source. We walk auditors through it at no charge.
Sectors
All sectors →Teams that have to justify a decision afterwards.
Banks & financial institutions
EDD for correspondent, private and commercial banking files that face regulatory review.
Fintech & payments
Merchant and partner checks at onboarding speed, without abandoning the audit trail.
Crypto & VASPs
Counterparty and treasury diligence where corporate records are thin and jurisdictions shift.
Law firms
Research support for disputes, asset recovery and client intake, under privilege where required.
Investors & M&A
Integrity diligence on founders, sellers and co-investors before terms are signed.
Procurement & third-party risk
Supplier and agent checks proportionate to spend, exposure and the market involved.
Standards we work to
UAE PDPL alignedGDPR alignedFATF-informed methodologyLawful-source only
Certifications and memberships to be listed here once confirmed.
Notes from the desk.
Draft topics · publication to comeWhy most adverse media hits are noise
A practical filter for deciding when a press mention belongs in a file.
Documenting source of wealth when records are thin
How to evidence a position honestly, including what remains unverified.
Start with the question, not a contract.
Tell us the subject and the decision it supports. You will hear back the same working day with scope, fee and a timeline, and an honest view of what the records will support.