Axis&Co is an international business intelligence company founded in 2006. We operate on all continents from our Paris headquarters, supported by our overseas offices and a solid network of international correspondents.
We seek to identify, collect and analyse accurate and actionable information to help our clients make strategic decisions, assess risks, win contracts and deal with threats.
For over 20 years, we have continuously improved our expertise, developed our tools and expanded our network to remain at the forefront of our field.
Assessment of a potential partner’s or a possible acquisition target’s alignment with our clients' regulatory obligations, reputational standards and ethical yardsticks.
Analysis of geopolitical, security and political risks; mapping of decision-making processes; identification of threats and potential sources of support; operational support.
Identification and analysis of international counterfeiting networks on the internet and in the field. Collection of evidence for legal proceedings, seizures and even dismantlement of networks.
Gathering information, evidence and testimonies to enable governments, institutions and companies that have been victims of fraud or embezzlement to obtain compensation.
Identification and location of all types of assets misappropriated by economic fraudsters or political predators in order to enable their fair restitution to private or state victims.
Collection and analysis of information enabling our clients to defend themselves in litigation or attacks of any kind (hostile takeover bids, destabilisation campaigns, etc.).
Europe is at the heart of our operations. With a presence across the continent, we carry out assignments from our offices in Paris, Geneva and Athens. Our mastery of languages and local specificities enables us to effectively support companies in a complex business environment.
We regularly work on fraud, litigation and intellectual property cases, areas in which we have acquired recognised expertise.
We have also carried out in-depth risk analyses to help our clients anticipate vulnerabilities and secure their operations in several countries that have recently joined or are candidates for the European Union.
Several partners and associates at Axis&Co have lived and worked in Africa for many years. We have an intimate knowledge of the continent and have many friends and contacts in a wide range of fields, including politics, civil society, the press and the business world. We closely monitor most of the crises affecting the continent.
Several governments have commissioned us to assist them in recovering assets illegally embezzled by politicians and economic operators, to document trafficking of which they were victims, or to assist them in difficult litigation.
Numerous companies have consulted us for risk analysis, support for acquisitions and mergers, and fraud management. Although we operate more regularly in French-speaking Africa, we also have a dense network of sources and correspondents in the Portuguese- and English-speaking worlds.
While some of Axis' employees come from this region, others have lived and worked there. From Paris, our Beirut office and in the field, we maintain a dense network of correspondents and experts.
Numerous companies and some governments have consulted us on forward-looking issues (risk analysis, due diligence), responses to large-scale tenders, and investigations into fraud and counterfeiting.
Our Russian-speaking team has studied, lived and worked in the region for many years. They have developed solid expertise in consulting local databases, conducting field surveys and deciphering the dynamics between different players.
Since our creation in 2006, we have been regularly called upon by our clients to handle complex disputes, but also to provide forward-looking analyses and conduct reputation surveys. We have been closely monitoring the political, diplomatic and security crises that have plagued the region since 2006.
Some of our partners and associates have been active in Asia since the mid-1990s, are fluent in several languages and have built up a solid network of contacts over the years.
We are familiar with the specific characteristics of each of these countries, which has enabled us to assist our clients with their strategic planning, growth operations, intellectual property protection and litigation. From our Paris office, our Bangkok office and in the field, we are regularly involved in China, India and throughout the ASEAN region. We are closely monitoring developments in Myanmar.
Since 2008, we have closely monitored developments in the Iranian market and Turkey's emergence, and maintained a dense network of experts and correspondents in political circles, civil society, the press and businesses throughout the region.
Our clients have regularly called on us to conduct compliance studies (particularly with regard to international sanctions) and to support their local development.
Over the years, we have built up a solid network of correspondents around our employees who have lived and worked in this region, enabling us to operate almost continuously in Brazil and Spanish-speaking countries. Our clients call on us to decipher power circles and manage complex fraud cases.
In addition to certain North American clients entrusting us with complex assignments, we have conducted several investigations in the United States and Canada, including due diligence, fraud management and litigation.
"The security situation in Syria, which is stabilising albeit with some ups and downs, is reviving the activity of intelligence and risk management firms, (...)
In this context, the French company Axis&Co stands out by already operating in Syria on behalf of the World Bank, through its Lebanese subsidiary headed by Stéphane Ravion. (...)"
« Stéphane Ravion, a former French journalist turned consultant who has been living in Lebanon for many years, has taken over as head of Axis Middle East. The Middle Eastern branch of the Paris-based business intelligence firm Axis&Co, founded by Bertrand de Turckheim and Jean-Renaud Fayol, is run from Beirut. »
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In a lengthy interview, the President of Altum&Co discusses his career, the history of the group he founded, and his vision of IE, inspired by the concept of just war. « Just war consists of asking the question of legitimacy for going to war, jus ad bellum, and the question of the means for pursuing it, jus in bello. Applied to IE, jus ad bellum applies in two situations. In the case of preventive intelligence, we talk about legitimate curiosity (...) In the field of investigation, we return to legitimate defence. Jus in bello obviously presupposes a legal context, otherwise we descend into espionage »
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