Sara Dover is a private investigator and consultant in New York. She conducts complex investigations for law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and high-net-worth individuals. This includes asset tracing, identifying conflicts of interest, locating difficult-to-find witnesses, and nuanced public records research to find facts to inform litigation strategy.

Sara is also experienced in cross-border due diligence, having managed or researched hundreds of background checks all over the world for leading hedge funds, executive search firms, and activist investors.

Examples of cases Sara has worked on over the course of her career include:

• digging up questionable investments and claims — as well as a criminal history — of a long-time director of a public company for an activist investor, which played a significant role in ushering the director off the board and bringing in a replacement approved by the activist investor;

• tracing the convoluted asset history of a real estate executive that had been dodging creditors for years, largely by using his family and shell companies to hide properties, to help a client decide whether it would be productive pursue a case against him;

• a multi-year-long investigation to help a manufacturer battle counterfeiters by tracing a criminal operation through Europe and China through public records, undercover test buys, and interviewing suppliers, which helped the client get favorable judgments in court.

Prior to working for herself, Sara spent twelve years at both boutique and global corporate intelligence firms in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, where she led U.S. research and training for an international team. Early in her career, she worked as an editor and reporter for CBS News, NBC News and NY1 News.

Sara has a BA in British and American Literature from New York University. While pursuing her degree, Sara was a news editor for the student-run newspaper and was an investigative research intern at the Village Voice.