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Founded in 2019 by three former officials from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, EQO is a French, human-scale company combining sovereign capabilities with diverse expertise.

2019

year founded
80+
Contracted Experts
+160
investigations conducted in 2025
250+
Clients

Our Story

EQO is an independent company founded on the conviction that operational expertise constitutes a strategic advantage serving both public and private-sector actors.

 

EQO’s founders set a high bar from the outset: a service built on trust, commitment, and excellence.

 

Convinced that quality rests on a constant availability, controlled responsiveness, and a precise understanding of operational challenges, they created a human-scale structure, whose growth relies exclusively on client satisfaction and loyalty.

 

With an unwavering focus on rigour, independence, and risk management, EQO places particular importance on the handling of confidentiality and conflicts of interest.

 

Accordingly, all the capabilities required to carry out assignments are internalised, ensuring sovereign capacities and providing clients with a high level of security, reliability, and control.

2019

Founding of EQO

The company is created by three partners from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, with a clear vision: place operational expertise at the service of clients worldwide.

2020

Development of the strategic intelligence expertise

The company’s capabilities rely on a pool of experts, tools, and sovereign databases, ensuring performance, reliability, and control over information.

2021

International expansion

Deployment of the first experts internationally and development of a network of local partners.

2023

Opening of the Singapore office

Creation of a legal entity in Singapore to develop international Employment-of-Record (EOR) services and support activities across Southeast Asia.

2025

Structuring into different areas of expertise

Formalisation of EQO’s four areas of expertise: Strategic Intelligence, Ethics & Compliance, International Security, International EOR services

Markets

Confidentiality as a Policy

EQO supports a selective, exacting clientele for whom discretion is an absolute necessity.

Listed and unlisted companies
Medium-sized and small enterprise executives
Law firms
Investment funds
Family Office
Institutional and governmental actors

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EQO in Numbers

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Four Founding Pillars

Our commitment to our clients is grounded in unwavering principles that guide every mission and ensure the quality of our professional relationships.

Confidentiality & Discretion

An acute sense of confidentiality at every stage of our missions, without exception.

Transparency

Deliver the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and useful manner, even when the conclusions are hard or unexpected.

Independence

EQO does not support two parties whose interests may be in conflict.

Responsiveness & Availability

EQO is committed to safeguard the interests of its clients and those of France, always.

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