Built on two decades of forensic investigations and evidence that has held up at every level of the civil court system.
KeyNorth was founded in 2008, at a time when open-source intelligence was still called investigative research, and most law firms had never retained a dedicated forensic investigations firm.
In the years since, the firm has worked alongside law firms, lenders, financial institutions, and insurers on matters across Canada: investor and lender fraud, internal employee investigations, title fraud, and complex commercial disputes. Some of Canada’s largest law firms and most well-known organizations have relied on KeyNorth when the facts needed to be established precisely.
KeyNorth reports are written to the standards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners: fact-based, allegation-free, and built to withstand scrutiny. The firm does not draw legal conclusions; that is the role of counsel. KeyNorth’s role is to establish what is there and deliver it in a form that counsel can use.
Those findings have been preferred in evidence at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and upheld through the Court of Appeal. KeyNorth has trained investigators at the Canadian Police College since 2010.
The cases are complex. The standard is not.
KeyNorth offers two engagement models. For asset and background investigations and individual locates, work proceeds at a fixed or range-based fee with a defined turnaround. For complex commercial matters, the engagement is scoped in advance, billed at milestones, and reported in writing at each stage.
Every engagement starts the same way: we define the scope and confirm what we can deliver before work begins.
Send a brief outline of the file, and we will set up an initial call at no cost. We use the first conversation to understand the matter, understand the scope and the sensitivities and confirm whether KeyNorth is the right firm for the work. Scope and fee follow from there.