Risk Management

All too often we are instructed in circumstances where business risks have already resulted in loss. We take no pleasure in these situations and regularly stress to our clients, whether old or new, the truth of the old adage that "prevention is better than cure".

We have a multi-disciplinary team at Blackhawk with decades of experience in a wide range of professional disciplines including legal, financial, military and law enforcement.

This enables us to provide a rounded  and tailored approach to advising clients on business risk assessment and reduction.

There has never been an more important time for business to take risk analysis seriously. Business excess generally and fraud specifically have been all too prevalent  in the news over the past few years. The result of this has been the political necessity for Western Governments to regulate and enforce far more vigorously, as indicated by the  Bribery Act.

Business Risks – how are they classified ?

The classic categorisation of business risk is :-

  • Strategic – this would cover such items as market knowledge & competitive intelligence
  • Operational - this includes items such as pre-employment screening, fraud prevention, data theft risk
  • Compliance – there is a plethora of legislation requiring legal compliance, in areas such as employment law, anti-corruption  and data protection
  • Financial - whilst we work closely with accountants and have specialist financial investigators on our team, this is an area we do not generally deal with in terms of service provision

We welcome the opportunity of discussing with you how we can assist in reducing or eliminating your business risks. Please contact us.