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Manufacturing & Industrial

We are the named, court-tested digital forensics experts that manufacturers and their counsel call when trade-secret theft, an export-controls or white-collar investigation, or IP misappropriation turns on what the digital evidence shows.

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How we serve Manufacturing & Industrial

Manufacturing and industrial companies run on the assets adversaries want most: proprietary process-control algorithms, materials specifications, and engineering designs that took years and millions to develop — moving across a multi-tier global supply chain that creates both legitimate complexity and cover for misconduct. We work these matters as digital forensic examiners first: reconstructing how a departing engineer's exfiltration of trade secrets actually happened across endpoints, removable media, engineering repositories, and cloud accounts; mapping sanctions and export-controls exposure through transaction records, trade documentation, and ECCN classifications across multi-country ERP systems; and running the covert, privileged internal investigations that confirm and quantify insider misconduct. Our clients are general counsel, compliance and risk leaders, and the outside litigators, white-collar defense teams, and deal counsel who rely on a forensic record that will hold up.

What sets the work apart is who does it and whether it survives scrutiny. The same forensic technologists who image the device, reconstruct the access-and-exfiltration timeline, or adjudicate a challenged privilege log are named, testifying experts and court-appointed special masters and neutrals who later explain those findings to a regulator, a board, or a jury — and defend them under Rule 53, Daubert, and cross-examination. Decisions are documented as they are made, chain of custody is preserved from first contact, and conclusions are written to withstand the opposing expert. That forensic discipline, not crisis response, is the core of what we bring to this sector.

Challenges we handle

  • Trade-secret and IP theft forensics

    When a departing R&D engineer is suspected of moving proprietary algorithms, materials specifications, or designs to a foreign competitor, we reconstruct the access-and-exfiltration trail across endpoints, removable media, and cloud accounts — producing attribution evidence sound enough for emergency injunctive relief and testimony at trial.

  • Sanctions and export-controls investigations

    We map years of transaction records, trade documentation, and ECCN classifications across multi-country ERP systems to quantify potential OFAC and EAR exposure, building the forensic accounting that supports a defensible voluntary self-disclosure to OFAC and BIS.

  • Insider misconduct and internal investigations

    We run covert, privileged digital-forensic investigations into suspected insider misconduct — following the trail through email, messaging, financial systems, and device data, and connecting it to the human facts while preserving the integrity of the evidence.

  • Expert testimony and neutral appointments

    Our principals are retained as testifying experts and appointed by courts as special masters and neutrals — including running stalled MDL and products-liability discovery under Rule 53, adjudicating spoliation and privilege disputes on the forensic record, and defending those findings on cross-examination.

  • Cross-border supply-chain forensics

    We follow distribution through intermediary structures and conduit resellers, applying entity resolution, counterparty analytics, and trade-document metadata analysis to identify ultimate end customers and concealed re-routing across a global supplier base.

  • Pre-acquisition forensic due diligence

    When transactional or data anomalies surface in deal diligence, we deliver a complete, auditable accounting of the target's exposure before closing — and design the remediation that lets the combined entity move forward with confidence.

Results in Manufacturing & Industrial