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QRI is a private investigations firm that specializes in large, complex projects all over the world.


We collect evidence for litigators, handle internal investigations, unravel complex corporate structures, spearhead cases that support the public interest, and conduct due diligence.

 
 
 
 

About QRI

QRI is an investigations firm that collects evidence for civil litigators and criminal defense lawyers, conducts internal investigations, looks into allegations of misconduct, and unravels complex corporate structures.

We do research, interviews, and due diligence in anticipation of transactions and hires.

Although we have global reach, we are by design a boutique firm and therefore nimble. This allows us to provide personalized attention and creative approaches to finding information, wherever it lives.

We work with outside counsel, general counsel, executives at large companies, investors, government agencies, individuals, and not-for-profits.

At QRI, we strive not only to answer our clients’ questions, but to pose questions they may not have considered. Our findings are presented in concise reports written in plain English and sometimes buttressed with innovative graphics.

We specialize in:

  • Uncovering hidden information

  • Identifying, finding, and interviewing people

  • Tracking down obscure documents

  • Spotting patterns hidden in disparate groups of big data

  • Making connections where none seem apparent

  • Exposing conflicts of interest, breaches of duty, and undisclosed relationships

  • Conducting background checks

  • Finding elusive assets and enforcing judgments

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Practice Areas

Litigation Support

QRI conducts sophisticated investigations for litigators who specialize in complex commercial matters, white-collar criminal defense, and international arbitration.

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Internal Investigations

When companies suspect wrongdoing from within their ranks, QRI works to root out fraud or discover whether otherwise improper behavior has occurred.

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Due Diligence

QRI supports companies and investors to vet deal partners, and we background management teams and asset managers. Our intelligence gathering goes beyond simple database searching.

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Investigations in the Public Interest

We use our investigative skill set to support causes that build a better society.

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External Threats

QRI helps organizations protect their brands from data breaches, counterfeits and grey market goods, and cyber attacks.

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Media

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2020: Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now
In this review, The Modern Detective, a book by QRI Partner Tyler Maroney, is called "a celebration of the analytical and interpersonal intelligence that makes a great investigator."

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The Truth and Mystery Surrounding Private Eyes

2020: The Independent interviewed QRI's Tyler Maroney about his new book The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence is Reshaping the World, and what follows are reflections on the gumshoe game.

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2020: QRI's Luke Brindle-Khym was credited for investigative work uncovering evidence that the brother-in-law of Sen. Richard Burr sold stock on the same day as Burr, possibly trading on non-public information.

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The Good Guy

2020: QRI's Anne Diebel reviewed Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators — and examines the issues raised by the book.

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2020: QRI's David Burghauser and Tyler Maroney have a shockingly simple theory on how Jeff Bezos' phone could have been hacked.

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Conviction Integrity in Real Time

2020: QRI's Charlie Linehan and Tyler Maroney wrote an OpEd for the New York Law Journal on how to prevent wrongful convictions.

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The World of the Whistleblower

2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney appeared on Cheddar TV, the “CNBC for millennials,” to discuss the whistleblower story.

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2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney appeared on Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive podcast to discuss private investigations and some of QRI's prominent cases.

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2019: How We Reinvestigated the ‘Serial’ Murder for HBO.

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2019: Meet the 'Free Meek' Investigator Who Helped Overturn Meek Mill's Conviction.

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2019: Inside the Relentless Private Investigation That Granted Meek Mill a New Trial.

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2019: Amazon’s ‘Free Meek’ chronicles Meek Mill’s legal saga and the investigators who cracked the case.

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Free Meek

2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the Amazon Prime documentary series Free Meek.

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Case of the Vanishing Journalist

2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney and David Usborne on media-minded private eyes.

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The Case Against Adnan Syed Documentary

2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the HBO documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed.

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Dashiell Hammett’s Strange Career

2018: QRI's Anne Diebel examines Dashiell Hammett's strange career.

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Paper Terrorism: Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon

2018: QRI's Tyler Maroney and Anne Diebel published an article in Harper's Magazine about Paper Terrorism.

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Dreams & Nightmares: The Meek Mill Story

2018: QRI Partner Luke Brindle-Khym and QRI were featured on Dateline's "Dreams and Nightmares: The Meek Mill Story."

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#FreeMeekMill

2018: QRI investigation featured in Rolling Stone.

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Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

2017: QRI's Anne Diebel published an Op-Ed in the New York Times.

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The Boring Life of a Private Investigator

2015: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney published an Op-Ed in The New York Times.

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Spy for a Day

2016: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney profiled a former British intelligence operative in the WSJ.

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In Harm's Way

2015: QRI Partner Luke Brindle-Khym was featured on CNBC's American Greed.

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Our People

Luke Brindle-Khym
Cofounder, Partner, General Counsel

David Burghauser
Senior Director, Head of Cyber Investigations

Anne Diebel
Senior Director, New York Office Head

Anna Hendrick
Senior Investigator

Charles Linehan
Managing Director

Tyler Maroney
Cofounder, Partner

Emily Rand
Senior Investigator

Angel Shin
Senior Investigator

David Usborne
Senior Investigator

Contact QRI

QRI
41 East 11th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10003