Kroll Inc.

(212) 593-1000
900 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022

www.krollworldwide.com

Business Description 

Kroll Inc., together with its subsidiaries (collectively, “Kroll”), is a leading global provider of complementary risk consulting services. Kroll assists businesses, governments and individuals throughout the world in preventing, mitigating and responding to risk through an integrated suite of services. In 2003, Kroll’s five business groups enabled Kroll to provide its clients with comprehensive, single source, risk consulting services. These five business groups are:

• Background Check & Screening Services. Kroll provides employee and vendor background investigations, credit screening and substance abuse testing.

• Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services. Kroll acts both in an advisory capacity to, and as interim management of, financially troubled companies throughout North America and Europe, and advises all the various stakeholders involved in the reorganization process. In this context, Kroll provides corporate restructuring, operational turnaround, strategic advisory services, financial crisis management and corporate finance services.

• Consulting Services. Kroll provides independent consulting services free from the audit conflicts incurred by major accounting firms. These consulting services include business and financial investigations, forensic accounting, business valuation, litigation consulting, due diligence, litigation intelligence, asset tracing and analysis, monitoring and special inquiries, market intelligence and intellectual property and infringement investigations.

• Technology Services. Kroll provides electronic discovery, data recovery and computer forensics services, along with related software solutions.

• Security Services. Kroll provides security architecture and design, corporate security consulting, emergency management and environmental services as well as protective services, operations and training.

Background Check & Screening Services Group

Kroll provides employee and vendor background investigations, credit screening, substance abuse testing and identity fraud solutions.

Background Check Services

Employee background checks and vendor vendor background investigations

Kroll verifies job applicant background information for employers. The background investigations are made through the use of databases, independent contractors and other sources. Screening procedures include reviews of credit histories, reference checks, criminal and civil records, workers’ compensation histories and driving records, education and credential verification among others. Services also include identity theft prevention and investigation and compliance programs in regulated industries.

Credit Screening

Kroll provides a wide range of customized information services to assist businesses to make decisions for a wide range of credit and business purposes, such as whether to approve a mortgage or other loan, accept new tenants or enter into a business relationship. Kroll specializes in providing customized mortgage credit reports and other mortgage related services, such as credit scores and property valuations. Kroll gathers data from a wide range of sources, including the three major credit repositories, updates and analyzes that information and electronically presents and delivers its results in a manner customized to each customer’s decision-making process. Kroll also provides consumer and commercial credit reports and resident screening.

Substance Abuse Testing

Kroll owns and operates a state-of-the-art laboratory providing substance abuse testing services to corporate and institutional clients seeking to detect and deter the use of illegal drugs. The laboratory is certified by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to conduct substance abuse testing using forensic procedures required for legally defensible test results. Kroll’s substance abuse testing services also include assisting clients with the development of substance abuse testing programs, training client personnel, managing specimen collections, arranging for transportation of specimens to our laboratory, identifying trends in local and national drug use, interpreting test results and providing expert testimony concerning test results.

Clients

Clients of the background checks & employee screening group include a broad array of domestic and multinational corporations and financial institutions. Kroll’s background screening services are typically charged on a per service basis, a standard packaged price or a custom package of services, depending on the particular client’s preference.

Competition

Kroll’s Background Screening Group faces competition from other background checking companies that specialize in the services Kroll provides, including ChoicePoint Inc., Total Information Services, Inc., ADREM Profiles Inc., Trans Union LLC, Verifications Inc., Yale Associates, Inc., First Advantage Corporation, Equifax Inc. and First American Corporation.

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