Analysis and insight

Helping our clients make more confident and informed decisions

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  • Due diligence
  • Executive screening
  • Market entry

About Hartford

Hartford provides pre-transaction and pre-hire due diligence research to investment professionals and business leaders globally.

We are specialists at providing critical information to clients during the commercial decision-making process by analysing companies and their leadership teams, and executives, ahead of transactions, partnerships, and appointments.

We provide forensic-level research, analysis, and insight, thereby helping our clients make more confident and informed decisions, and mitigate risks. Our multi-disciplinary team has decades of experience assisting and advising investment professionals and business leaders across a wide variety of sectors and geographies.

Hartford was founded on the principle of applying journalistic practices to the due diligence process. We are transparent about our methods, combining a rigorous analysis of public-domain information as well as in-depth interviews with sources with sector expertise and regional insight.

In particular, our unique approach to human source interviews with informed sources invariably helps our clients obtain a deeper understanding of potential counterparties and executive appointments, and address gaps in information.

Our clients include private equity and venture capital funds, family offices, hedge funds, investment banks, government and sovereign wealth funds, and corporations. We assist clients during all stages of the investment cycle, from seed and early-stage rounds to pre- and post-IPO.

Our Mission

We provide trusted information, insight, assessment and advice to enable investment professionals and business leaders to make confident and informed decisions, and generate positive impact across their businesses.

Our Approach

We fully understand the transformational value of reliable information. We enter every engagement with a deep consideration of the key questions and circumstances. We recognise that events do not happen in isolation and we seek to obtain a holistic viewpoint and understanding of the broader context.

Our Values

Our clients are our priority and we deliver without exception. Our central values are responsiveness, flexibility, creativity and transparency in our actions, and confidentiality in our dealings.

Our Leadership

Our partners, Ben Leach and Andrew Whelan, have over four decades of collective experience, initially as senior national newspaper journalists and more recently as strategic consultants. They have overseen hundreds of successful projects for clients, across a diverse range of sectors, industries and geographies. Their ethos is to adapt the rigour, writing ability and interviewing skills learnt during their previous newspaper careers into the information gathering process for their clients.

Ben Leach

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Andrew Whelan

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Providing strategic intelligence and market entry assessment to investment professionals and business leaders globally

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