Our forensic services team can assist you in the investigation, analysis and resolution of your business issues and disputes. Whether reacting to an incident or offering proactive solutions, our network of forensic services combines a global reach with dedicated teams to support your business.

We help organizations tackle the major financial and reputational risks associated with economic crime. Our forensic experts identify financial irregularities, recover stolen assets, and introduce controls to mitigate the future risk of fraud. We have also developed and pioneered new technology specializing in the capture, management and analysis of data to support investigations and dispute resolution.

Our forensic services include litigation support practice. In addition, we provide investigation and accounting skills to help business resolve complex financial disputes arising from corporate transaction, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects.

The forensic services team includes accountants, ex-regulators and law enforcement officers, engineers, chartered surveyors, economists and insurance professionals.

Our forensic services

• Anti-money laundering
• Capital project services
• Commercial disputes
• Forensic technology solution
• Investigations
• Insurance claims services
• Intellectual property
• International arbitration
• Licensing management services
• Securities litigation
• Transaction and shareholders disputes & investigation

INVESTIGATIONS

Drawing on skills and experience acquired over many years in a range of disciplines, our investigation team is ready to assist clients in the prevention, detection, investigation and remediation of fraud, financial crime and other irregularities.

Our detection and investigation specialists work with our experts in forensic technology solutions, combing extensive practical experience, formal training and wide range of tools and techniques to detect and investigate fraud.

The decision to recover any assets misappropriated will be informed by a wide range of issues, including the size of the losses, whether the target of any recovery action has sufficient assets to warrant a claim, as well as the location of those assets and whether there is a desire to avoid publicity. We can assist clients in this decision making process and in pursuing any resulting recovery actions.

We can also help evaluate, remediate or augment your anti-fraud programmes by providing an overall fraud risk assessment and by design and/or testing existing anti-fraud programmes and controls.

Potential issues

Your organization has suffered asset misappropriation in any form, including theft of cash or other assets, procurement fraud, expenses or payroll fraud, loan or mortgage fraud, theft of trade secrets, or diversion of revenues.

You need to respond to bribery and corruption claims, including Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Breaches.

There is a suspicion of accounting fraud or manipulation (whether at group, company or divisional (level), or inappropriate or inadequate disclosure.

There are concerns about the adequacy of effectiveness of anti-fraud programmes and controls over financial reporting.

You suspect that there are breaches of ethics, conflicts of interest and other forms of management and employee impropriety within your organization.
How can we support you?

Investigate the nature and extent of the fraud or irregularity and any losses arising from it.
Identify and quantify any accounting misstatements and advise on changes to accounting or disclosure that may be required.

Using evidence from the investigation, as well as publicly available sources, we can evaluate the viability of third parties as targets for recovery actions.
Work closely with lawyers to frame freezing and disclosures orders.

Analyze further evidence, such as bank records, obtained under disclosure orders
Produce factual and/or expert reports and other analysis in support of recovery actions
Assist in the design and implementations of other remedial steps, including improvements in processes and controls to mitigate the risk of reoccurrence.

Other Investigation services include

• The use of forensic interview techniques
• Electronic evidence gathering, including disk imaging
• Data mining and other electronic data analysis to identify relevant evidence and investigate leads
• Document, transaction and accounting analysis
• Evidence and document management
• Production of reports, including expert witness reports, numerical and graphical analyses for use in civil or criminal proceedings.
• Liaison with law enforcement and regulatory authorities