Insights
Perspectives for companies, traders, investors, lenders and counsel. What to verify, which evidence matters and where the limits remain.
The practical guide
The Brazil-Linked Transaction Due Diligence Checklist connects the parties, authority, documents, supply claims and payment structure to the decision you are being asked to make.
Read the due diligence checklistPractical questions. Independently examined.
A working due diligence checklist with evidence, source and owner fields. Verify identities, authority, supply, documents and payment before Brazil-linked exposure.
Read insightCheck a Brazilian company using CNPJ records, corporate filings and an evidence matrix. Separate identity, signing authority, ownership and operating claims.
Read insightA pre-payment supplier workflow: identify the seller, verify authority and supply access, resolve the beneficiary and record the evidence needed before release.
Read insightScope Brazilian counterparty diligence by exposure: corporate history, ownership, litigation, sanctions and operating claims, with a practical evidence request.
Read insightVerify an exporter’s legal role, product-specific requirements, access to goods and shipment evidence. Learn where public Brazilian trade data stops.
Read insightCompare registry checks, KYC, screening and investigative due diligence. Use a worked example to choose the smallest scope that answers the material question.
Read insightA practical intermediary verification sequence, including a principal-confirmation request and ways to distinguish introductions from authority to sign or collect.
Read insightRead a seller mandate clause by clause: principal, issuer, permitted acts, delegation and expiry. Includes a fictional scope mismatch and verification worksheet.
Read insightMap a commodity intermediary chain using separate introduction, authority and payment records. Find the unsupported link without treating complexity as fraud.
Read insightDecode six common trade-document labels, compare their evidential limits and build a document cross-check that exposes changes in parties, authority and payment.
Read insightSeparate instrument review from factual due diligence before an LC or SBLC. Includes a pre-issuance evidence handover and a worked allocation example.
Read insightAssess photographs, certificates, warehouse statements and shipping records by the fact each can support. Includes a lot-verification request and worked example.
Read insightReview a payment beneficiary that differs from the seller: contractual basis, independent confirmation, changed instructions and an escalation record.
Read insightUse CNPJ, MAPA SIF records and destination-specific checks to examine a Brazilian meat offer. Separate the seller, plant, eligibility and current consignment.
Read insightTrace a natural-stone offer from supplier to quarry, processor and identified lot. Includes an ANM research boundary and a practical slab-verification brief.
Read insightConnect the coffee seller, exporter, origin claim, sample and commercial lot. Includes a sample-to-shipment matrix and questions to send before commitment.
Read insightTest agricultural supply claims by commodity, crop or production period, allocation and logistics. Includes a capacity-versus-allocation example and evidence brief.
Read insightVerify Brazil–China supply claims across entities, languages, plant records and CIFER. Includes a country-specific evidence map and a worked offshore-seller example.
Read insightResolve trading entities, producer access, halal or destination claims and payment roles in Brazil-linked structures without treating the Middle East as one regime.
Read insightCommission Brazil-linked fact-finding with a usable instruction brief, evidence register and contact protocol. Separate asset indicators from enforceable recovery.
Read insightA confidential conversation about the questions, the scope and the next step.
