We collect evidence for litigators, handle internal investigations, unravel complex corporate structures, spearhead cases that support the public interest, and conduct due diligence.
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.
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
QRI conducts sophisticated investigations for litigators who specialize in complex commercial matters, white-collar criminal defense, and international arbitration.
When companies suspect wrongdoing from within their ranks, QRI works to root out fraud or discover whether otherwise improper behavior has occurred.
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.
We use our investigative skill set to support causes that build a better society.
QRI helps organizations protect their brands from data breaches, counterfeits and grey market goods, and cyber attacks.
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."
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.
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.
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.
2020: QRI's David Burghauser and Tyler Maroney have a shockingly simple theory on how Jeff Bezos' phone could have been hacked.
2020: QRI's Charlie Linehan and Tyler Maroney wrote an OpEd for the New York Law Journal on how to prevent wrongful convictions.
2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney appeared on Cheddar TV, the “CNBC for millennials,” to discuss the whistleblower story.
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.
2019: How We Reinvestigated the ‘Serial’ Murder for HBO.
2019: Meet the 'Free Meek' Investigator Who Helped Overturn Meek Mill's Conviction.
2019: Inside the Relentless Private Investigation That Granted Meek Mill a New Trial.
2019: Amazon’s ‘Free Meek’ chronicles Meek Mill’s legal saga and the investigators who cracked the case.
2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the Amazon Prime documentary series Free Meek.
2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney and David Usborne on media-minded private eyes.
2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the HBO documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed.
2018: QRI's Anne Diebel examines Dashiell Hammett's strange career.
2018: QRI's Tyler Maroney and Anne Diebel published an article in Harper's Magazine about Paper Terrorism.
2018: QRI Partner Luke Brindle-Khym and QRI were featured on Dateline's "Dreams and Nightmares: The Meek Mill Story."
2017: QRI's Anne Diebel published an Op-Ed in the New York Times.
2015: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney published an Op-Ed in The New York Times.
2016: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney profiled a former British intelligence operative in the WSJ.
