Plain answers about how we operate.

For most major capitals — Paris, London, Geneva, Monaco, Dubai, New York — we can position a vetted team within four to twelve hours of confirmation. For complex or remote destinations, our advance teams typically deploy within 24 to 48 hours. Initial coordinator response to any inbound enquiry is under sixty minutes.

There is no minimum length. We have provided four-hour airport-to-meeting escorts and ten-year permanent residential mandates. Most clients begin with a single trip or event before establishing a long-term relationship.

A senior coordinator contacts you within sixty minutes. The first conversation is confidential, carries no obligation and no template — we ask about your specific requirement, your calendar, your principal's profile and any prior security arrangements. You receive a written proposal within 24 hours of that call.

Yes. We sign your NDA before discussing any operational detail. If you do not have one, we provide our own bespoke NDA structured around UHNW family office standards: bilateral, perpetual, with named-individual coverage for any operator who will be exposed to information about you.

Yes — and we routinely do. Many of our mandates involve integration with an existing in-house security director, family office security architect or platform-level security partner. We work to your reporting structure and your protocols, not in competition with them.

Our officers are drawn from national protection services, special forces (SAS, SBS, GIGN, Sayeret, Spetsnaz), former military police, and senior private close protection backgrounds. Every officer holds current jurisdictional licensing for the territory in which they operate, and is renewed against our internal vetting standard annually.

Yes. We maintain a roster of senior female officers and consider female deployment essential — not optional — for principals with female family members, principals attending settings where same-gender presence is required (changing rooms, medical settings, certain religious environments) and any mandate where a female operator improves the protective posture.

Our worldwide network covers more than twenty-four working languages. For any given mandate we deploy native or near-native speakers of the principal's primary language and the destination's primary language. Arabic, French, English, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, German and Italian are the most common combinations.

Every operator passes a documented vetting protocol covering: criminal record check across primary jurisdictions, financial integrity review, social media and digital footprint audit, reference verification with prior employers, and an in-person assessment with a senior coordinator. Vetting is renewed annually and re-run before any new principal exposure.

A standard close protection mandate includes: pre-deployment threat picture and route survey, principal-facing protection officers (typically 1 to 3 officers), one or more security drivers, vehicle selection and provisioning, hotel pre-arrival check, venue advance, 24/7 operations centre tracking, daily intelligence brief and a confidential after-action report.

Yes — sedans, SUVs and people-carriers in armour ratings from B4 to B6+. Our Paris, Monaco, Geneva, London, Dubai and New York fleets are positioned for same-day deployment. For destinations outside this network, armoured vehicles are sourced from accredited regional partners under our written security standard.

Before any deployment, our intelligence cell delivers a written threat picture covering: country and city baseline, principal-specific exposure, route vulnerabilities, venue assessments, recent local incident pattern, expected protest or media activity, and contingency mapping. The brief is updated daily during the mandate and shared with you and the team.

Yes. Residential security is one of our core practices. We deliver: site survey, physical and electronic security architecture, household staff vetting, perimeter and CCTV design, 24/7 control room integration, response time mapping with local authorities, and resident protection officer rotation. Mandates run from short-stay seasonal to permanent multi-year.

Every mandate is structured around a pre-agreed contingency tree: medical, accident, hostile crowd, attempted approach, communication failure, vehicle incident. The team executes the relevant protocol immediately, the operations centre is alerted within sixty seconds, and you receive direct contact from a senior coordinator within five minutes. After-action review is delivered in writing within 48 hours.

Visibility is a deliberate decision tied to the threat picture and the principal's preference. Our default posture is civilian dress, low-profile, no insignia, no equipment visibility — protection that reads as a discreet personal staff member rather than as security. Where elevated threat or principal preference dictates, we move to a visible posture. We never invent visibility for its own sake.

Client information lives only with the operators directly involved in the mandate, on encrypted communications, segregated by mandate, with no cross-client visibility. Identifiable client material is never used in our marketing — every photograph or testimonial published has explicit written approval. We have never been the source of a leak about a client; this is the discipline on which our practice rests.

No, and we never will. We are willing to provide a small number of senior-level references upon request, after NDA and after we have evaluated whether your enquiry is a fit. We will not name specific principals, families or maisons in any commercial conversation.

Pricing is mandate-specific and reflects the team composition, duration, vehicles, intelligence support and any specialist capability required. We provide a written transparent quote before any deployment. There are no hidden costs, no incremental "service charges" applied during the mandate, and no minimum daily that does not match the operational reality of your requirement.

Reasonable travel and accommodation costs for the deployed team are typically billed at cost or as a fixed line item agreed before deployment. We never use travel or per-diem charges as a margin-padding mechanism — full transparency on this is part of our standard.

For new clients, we typically require a deposit equivalent to the first phase of the mandate. For established clients on a recurring or long-term mandate, the relationship moves to monthly or quarterly invoicing. Payment terms are agreed in writing before any operator is deployed.

Yes. We hold tarmac credentials at major European and Gulf private aviation terminals — Le Bourget, Farnborough, Teterboro, Geneva, Nice and the major Gulf FBOs. Officers meet the aircraft on arrival, escort the principal through immigration where applicable, and transfer to ground transport without the principal entering a public terminal.

Yes. Our yacht practice covers: pre-charter security audit, captain and crew protocol alignment, tender escort during shore visits, port authority coordination across the Mediterranean and Gulf, and continuous coverage during principal time aboard. We coordinate under the captain's authority, never against it.

Yes. Multi-country mandates are managed by a single coordinator with worldwide visibility, ensuring consistent personnel, consistent protocol and continuous protection across every leg. We maintain operational presence in 40+ destinations and accredited partners in 60+ countries.

For destinations with elevated terrorism, kidnap or political risk, our advisory team provides a written go/no-go assessment before commitment, an enhanced threat picture during deployment and capability uplift (additional officers, armoured vehicles, medical support, communications redundancy) calibrated to the specific exposure. We will recommend against travel when the risk is materially out of line with the principal's objective.

Yes. Airport-only mandates are common — particularly for principals arriving for short stays where in-country security is provided by a host or by local resources. We meet the principal at the aircraft door or at immigration, escort through to onward transport, and disengage at the agreed handoff point.

Many of our officers hold advanced first aid and tactical medical qualifications. For mandates with elevated medical risk — older principals, principals with chronic conditions, large private events — we deploy a dedicated medical officer or position a discreet medical capability on site. Coordination with private hospitals at every major destination is part of our standard.