Accounting and Forensic Investigations

We offer a unique combination of financial markets expertise, investigative capabilities and securities industry expertise to matters involving the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, forensic accounting and investigations. We have extensive experience providing accounting and litigation consulting services related to matters that involve accounting, auditing, the investigation and analysis of fraud claims and related forensic accounting issues. In addition to our accounting and auditing expertise, we also have experience in assisting counsel in assessing and defending actions brought by the SEC and other regulatory bodies.

Our principals include former partners of the world's largest public accounting firms and accounting professors from several of the nations most recognized business schools. These professionals have served as consulting experts and testifying experts in matters involving securities litigation, accounting malpractice, post-acquisition disputes, forensic analysis of complex transactions, shareholder derivative claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, employee and shareholder embezzlement, and theft of proprietary information.

We have assisted counsel in many high profile accounting malpractice cases, board-directed investigations of internal fraud, financial investigations or allegations of earnings manipulation and inadequate disclosure or fraudulent transactions.

Our team has assisted counsel with the analysis and retrieval of information, interviews and fact gathering, report preparation and expert witness testimony. We have represented both companies and individuals in front of the SEC, CFTC NASD and other regulatory organizations.

We have assisted counsel in board directed investigations of alleged accounting irregularities at numerous Fortune 500 Companies including Waste Management, Inc., Kmart Corporation, Dana Corporation, Sunbeam Corporation and OfficeMax, Inc.