Litigation Consulting & Forensics
Managing risk in today's complex global marketplace can be challenging. Kroll can provide a comprehensive and innovative response to virtually every type of dispute – for example, if you are facing suspected fraud within your company, are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), are initiating or defending a lawsuit, suspect that your intellectual property may have been compromised, or are considering a new alliance, affiliation or acquisition.
By combining financial acumen with investigative techniques, our financial and forensic accounting professionals assist clients in preventing and detecting fraud and other forms of white-collar crime, quantifying damages and assisting at all levels of litigation, including providing expert testimony.
With more than 30 years of experience in helping resolve matters large and small, local and global, we provide a diverse and powerful range of dispute advisory & forensic accounting services.
Litigation Consulting
When subject to litigation, clients can turn to Kroll for sound contextual analysis, advisory services, and comprehensive fact-finding solutions to aid in assessing and developing the case – regardless of scope or scale. Our forensic accountants, business intelligence investigators, and support teams are ready to assist in a variety of disputes at all levels of litigation.
Forensic Accounting
Even the most reputable company is vulnerable to faulty accounting. When accounting fraud is suspected or a financial issue merits investigation, Kroll's forensic accountants delve beneath the surface and beyond the obvious, applying intuition, critical analysis and a perceptive understanding of human behavior to obtain a true picture of key events, transactions and business dealings.Asset Searches
Whether misappropriated by employees, business partners, or government officials, Kroll's forensic accountants and investigators have the expertise to track down stolen assets. With knowledge of worldwide financial reporting requirements, global banking practices, international law, funds transfer systems, and financial deception techniques, we have the experience to investigate corporate embezzlement, official corruption, and attempts to escape restitution in legal cases.Damages and Commercial Disputes
In an increasingly litigious business world, where parties are often embroiled in complex commercial litigation, Kroll's experts assess and quantify economic damages independently and objectively. This may include quantification of lost profits, diminution in value, disgorgement, or other measures of damage; or it may comprise an evaluation of a financial, statistical, economic, or accounting issue that goes to liability. In any context, Kroll analysts assist clients and counsel with all aspects of litigation, from discovery requests to development of databases, financial models, expert reports, demonstratives, and well supported expert testimony.Computer Forensics
It has been estimated that 90% of information today is created electronically, but only 30% of that information makes its way to paper. With the increasing trend of creating and using electronic documents in the workplace, a critical aspect in many investigations and disputes is the handling of electronic information and e-mails.With former law enforcement and computer forensics experts, Kroll helps clients find hidden or hard-to-find data, recreate critical computer related events, access hard-to-find or apparently lost data, search and manage e-mails and databases, and present computer forensic filings to judges, juries, and opposing parties.
SEC and Corporate Governance Disputes
In the event of an SEC investigation or Sarbanes-Oxley related dispute, Kroll helps clients and their counsel formulate responses to accounting matters and accompanies them to hearings, meetings, and interviews with the SEC. Kroll's corporate governance services also include providing educational seminars on regulatory requirements and conducting internal investigations in order to safeguard the client's interests.Intellectual Property (IP) Disputes
Litigation involving infringement and misappropriation of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets – intellectual property (IP) – raises a unique set of issues. Kroll’s team of IP specialists assist clients and counsel in unraveling all aspects of IP disputes through every phase of litigation, providing damage analyses and quantifications that have passed Daubert and Rule 702 scrutiny, including evaluation of Panduit factors, the appropriateness of various measures of damages, and lost profit and reasonable royalty calculations. Moreover, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court'sPost-Acquisition Disputes
A post-acquisition dispute can change a smooth, equitable business acquisition into a complex, entangled transaction overnight. In such an event, Kroll’s experts diligently analyze all factors leading to the disputed transaction, be it a purchase price adjustment or closing balance sheet issue, a shareholder dispute, or an evaluation of the information considered in the due diligence and deal structure. Kroll's accountants are also experienced in the evaluation and development of accounting functions for organizations post-acquisition.
Contact Us
- Daniel Karson (North America)
- William Keevan (North America)
- Tommy Helsby (Europe, the Middle East & Africa)
- Frank Hawke (China)
- Tad Kageyama (Japan and Korea)
- Vander Giordano (Latin America)
