Cairn Research was founded by former lawyers and investigative journalists at Bloomberg and Reuters who built second careers conducting due diligence on behalf of the world’s largest private equity firms, hedge funds, and institutional investors.

We specialize in discreet assessments of executives and companies — leveraging decades of industry experience to identify sources, ask the right questions, and surface the risks that remain hidden during conventional research.

With engagements spanning technology, finance, healthcare, and other industries across North America, Europe, and Asia, we uncover the information that shapes reputations and investments — while maintaining an iron-clad commitment to confidentiality and regulations governing privacy and material non-public information.