ELMS Early Investigation Service Line – Insolvency

The Early Investigation Service Line lets insolvency practitioners easily and cost effectively carry out investigations of a company’s documentary material (small or large volumes) with all the advantages of a powerful search engine and AI to deliver a targeted approach and outcomes.

Use it when:

• Investigating company records into director conduct.
• Analysing company records in relation to irregular matters, potential offences, debts, claims and complaints.

Common problems locating and investigating documents in a company’s documents without the Early Investigation Service Line include:

• having to conduct the same searches across multiple sources, such as emails, network drives and databases;
• not all of the documents are fully text searchable, making the searches unreliable;
• depending on the company’s internal systems, you may not be able to easily search across document sets;
• you cannot easily track what has been reviewed, so you may review the same document more than once;
• you have no means to de-duplicate the set of documents, leading to multiple reviews of the same document;
• you cannot easily sort all documents chronologically to review them in date order;
• you cannot easily filter the documents into categories to assist with locating critical documents;
• your systems may have no AI tools to assist you identify near duplicates or documents with similar concepts; and
• sharing multiple documents with external parties is time consuming and at times difficult.