Founded on Discipline, Evidence, Accountability
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
We are a specialist advisory firm established in 1992 by James Bretton de'Lyon a former UK intelligence officer and two City of London regulatory investigators with backgrounds spanning national security, complex investigations, and strategic risk analysis.
From inception, the firm was built to operate in situations where information is incomplete, stakes are high, and decisions must be grounded in evidence rather than assumption. That founding ethos continues to define our work today.
We do not work from assumption, inference, or narrative. Every position we take is grounded in documentary evidence, verifiable facts, and clear timelines. Opinions follow analysis - never the other way around.
Complex situations do not justify obscurity. We believe that governance, financial arrangements, and decision-making should withstand plain-English explanation. If something cannot be clearly explained, it warrants closer scrutiny.
We are independent by design. Our advice is not shaped by outcomes, pressure, or convenience. Where independence cannot be preserved, we do not engage.
Authority carries responsibility. Decisions taken by boards, executives, and controllers must be defensible not only in hindsight, but against the standards that applied at the time they were made.
We believe in measured, proportionate responses. Escalation should be deliberate, justified, and documented - not reflexive. Restraint is often a sign of strength, not weakness.
Regulatory frameworks, shareholder rights, and fiduciary duties exist for a reason. We work within those frameworks and expect others to do the same.
We operate quietly. Sensitive matters are handled with care, precision, and respect for confidentiality. Publicity is never a substitute for substance.
Short-term advantage often creates long-term risk. We advise with durability in mind - focusing on outcomes that remain defensible as facts emerge and scrutiny increases.
Today we advised on complex matters in more than 800 settlements with a 92% win rate for our clients, our approach based on evidence gathering via intelligence, digital intelligence and surveillance in the field ensures that when matters to present at court that there is overwhelming evidence presentation if present within the case structure.
Staring out in the early 90's Western Supermare, today we hold a formal office in London with our HQ and holding office in Nevis. Our team is selected from the very best of regulatory finance professionals, top litigation professionals and ex national intelligence officers maintaining the key DNA of our organisation to be experts in legal intelligence.
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Evaluate
Evaluate
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
Gather
Gather
Gather intelligence day one before any legal work
Gather intelligence day one before any legal work
Draft
Draft
Draft and prepare case notes and bundles
Draft and prepare case notes and bundles
Serve
Serve
Execute filing via local counsel
Execute filing via local counsel
Founded on Discipline, Evidence, Accountability
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
We are a specialist advisory firm established in 1992 by James Bretton de'Lyon a former UK intelligence officer and two City of London regulatory investigators with backgrounds spanning national security, complex investigations, and strategic risk analysis.
From inception, the firm was built to operate in situations where information is incomplete, stakes are high, and decisions must be grounded in evidence rather than assumption. That founding ethos continues to define our work today.
We do not work from assumption, inference, or narrative. Every position we take is grounded in documentary evidence, verifiable facts, and clear timelines. Opinions follow analysis - never the other way around.
Complex situations do not justify obscurity. We believe that governance, financial arrangements, and decision-making should withstand plain-English explanation. If something cannot be clearly explained, it warrants closer scrutiny.
We are independent by design. Our advice is not shaped by outcomes, pressure, or convenience. Where independence cannot be preserved, we do not engage.
Authority carries responsibility. Decisions taken by boards, executives, and controllers must be defensible not only in hindsight, but against the standards that applied at the time they were made.
We believe in measured, proportionate responses. Escalation should be deliberate, justified, and documented - not reflexive. Restraint is often a sign of strength, not weakness.
Regulatory frameworks, shareholder rights, and fiduciary duties exist for a reason. We work within those frameworks and expect others to do the same.
We operate quietly. Sensitive matters are handled with care, precision, and respect for confidentiality. Publicity is never a substitute for substance.
Short-term advantage often creates long-term risk. We advise with durability in mind - focusing on outcomes that remain defensible as facts emerge and scrutiny increases.
Today we advised on complex matters in more than 800 settlements with a 92% win rate for our clients, our approach based on evidence gathering via intelligence, digital intelligence and surveillance in the field ensures that when matters to present at court that there is overwhelming evidence presentation if present within the case structure.
Staring out in the early 90's Western Supermare, today we hold a formal office in London with our HQ and holding office in Nevis. Our team is selected from the very best of regulatory finance professionals, top litigation professionals and ex national intelligence officers maintaining the key DNA of our organisation to be experts in legal intelligence.
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Evaluate
Evaluate
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
Gather
Gather
Gather intelligence day one before any legal work
Gather intelligence day one before any legal work
Draft
Draft
Draft and prepare case notes and bundles
Draft and prepare case notes and bundles
Serve
Serve
Execute filing via local counsel
Execute filing via local counsel
Founded on Discipline, Evidence, Accountability
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
Law experts you can count on
We are a specialist advisory firm established in 1992 by James Bretton de'Lyon a former UK intelligence officer and two City of London regulatory investigators with backgrounds spanning national security, complex investigations, and strategic risk analysis.
From inception, the firm was built to operate in situations where information is incomplete, stakes are high, and decisions must be grounded in evidence rather than assumption. That founding ethos continues to define our work today.
We do not work from assumption, inference, or narrative. Every position we take is grounded in documentary evidence, verifiable facts, and clear timelines. Opinions follow analysis - never the other way around.
Complex situations do not justify obscurity. We believe that governance, financial arrangements, and decision-making should withstand plain-English explanation. If something cannot be clearly explained, it warrants closer scrutiny.
We are independent by design. Our advice is not shaped by outcomes, pressure, or convenience. Where independence cannot be preserved, we do not engage.
Authority carries responsibility. Decisions taken by boards, executives, and controllers must be defensible not only in hindsight, but against the standards that applied at the time they were made.
We believe in measured, proportionate responses. Escalation should be deliberate, justified, and documented - not reflexive. Restraint is often a sign of strength, not weakness.
Regulatory frameworks, shareholder rights, and fiduciary duties exist for a reason. We work within those frameworks and expect others to do the same.
We operate quietly. Sensitive matters are handled with care, precision, and respect for confidentiality. Publicity is never a substitute for substance.
Short-term advantage often creates long-term risk. We advise with durability in mind - focusing on outcomes that remain defensible as facts emerge and scrutiny increases.
Today we advised on complex matters in more than 800 settlements with a 92% win rate for our clients, our approach based on evidence gathering via intelligence, digital intelligence and surveillance in the field ensures that when matters to present at court that there is overwhelming evidence presentation if present within the case structure.
Staring out in the early 90's Western Supermare, today we hold a formal office in London with our HQ and holding office in Nevis. Our team is selected from the very best of regulatory finance professionals, top litigation professionals and ex national intelligence officers maintaining the key DNA of our organisation to be experts in legal intelligence.
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
Client satisfaction is our north star
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They also aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for us LP | City of London
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
We were excluded from information rights for over two years by one of our partners, the team at Crown mapped procedural defects around resolutions/AGM/board actions across multiple jurisdictions. Crown obtained and compared filings, registers, and resolutions; reconciled cap table movements and approvals against formal governance steps; created a gap analysis for counsel. They aquired video evidence and email records that substantiated our case and led to a positive outcome for our fund. LP | City of London
Crown rebuilt our entire evidence file for a regulatory sumission including all of our: timelines, exhibits, director duties mapping ad more. We went from ‘he said/she said’ to document-to expediated investigation by LSE regulators in days. London LP | Financial Services
Crowns team worked with our littigator to identify inconsistencies across shareholder communications, cap table movements, and related-party dealings, then produced a forensic bundle with source files, hashes, and an audit trail. Nothing was left to ‘interpretation’ everything was evidenced. as a result we won our case and were awarded the damages we had applied. Singapore LP | Construction Services
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Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
Clear steps. Predictable outcomes.
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Evaluate
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
Legal Evaluation and Intelligence Briefing
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Gather
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Gather intelligence day one before any legal work
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Draft
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Draft and prepare case notes and bundles
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