Due Dilligence

Professional Due Diligence

As an industry leading professional our CEO understands as much as anyone the financial uncertainty that many people are now facing in the wake of the global financial crisis. The TGIC team wouldn’t dream of endorsing any financial product without first gaining a comprehensive understanding of everything involved. That’s why we insisted on personally conducting a full and thorough professional due diligence investigation, so that our clients can be completely confident that we have done everything in our power to ensure their investment is not only secure, but that it will also deliver optimal returns.

The CEO decided it was essential for a TGIC team headed by himself to go and visit the plantations, to get an insight into the practical side of sustainable investments from both an environmental standpoint and a commercial perspective.
 

* Meeting with Sri Lankan Board of Investment Department

TGIC met with key figures in Sri Lanka including:

• The CEO of our agro-forestry partners, who is also the Chairman of the UK Sri Lanka Business Council
• The highly regarded and esteemed board of directors for our agro-forestry partners
• The Director General of the Finance Ministry
• The Minister for Agriculture
• The Board of Investment for Sri Lanka – providing protection for our agro-forestry partners in the form of a constitutional guarantee
• Baker Tilly International – an independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisors
• HLW Law – one of the UK’s leading private multi-practice law firms specialising in corporate, property and commercial law
• Ganlaths – an international law partnership specialising in Sri Lanka, UK and Australian corporate and property law aspects

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister has also taken a keen interest in the work of our agro-forestry partners, and is said to be extremely proud that their forward thinking approach to climate change is not only contributing to the future success of the economy but also helping the country gain recognition on the global stage. TGIC management were due to meet the PM on their visit, but their meeting had to be cancelled. However, TGIC look very forward to accepting tea with the Prime Minister on their next visit.

The buzz surrounding the work that our agro-forestry partners are doing in Sri Lanka, together with the enthusiasm shared by everyone concerned with the project, left the TGIC team in no doubt that this investment opportunity was nothing short of exceptional.