Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations
Law & Forensics detects, investigates, and quantifies financial fraud, embezzlement, and accounting manipulation, reconstructing the flow of misappropriated funds and producing reports built to withstand litigation, regulatory, and insurance scrutiny.
Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations capabilities
Financial Records Examination
We examine financial records, account transactions, journal entries, bank reconciliations, vendor payment records, and supporting documentation to identify irregularities and reconstruct how funds were misappropriated.
Forensic Data Analytics
Our investigations apply advanced data analytics to surface statistical anomalies and suspicious transaction patterns across large volumes of financial data.
Fraud Exposure Quantification
We calculate fraud exposure and document the methodology of the underlying scheme, giving counsel, management, and boards a defensible measure of loss.
Former Federal Law Enforcement Expertise
Our team includes former federal law enforcement professionals with more than 21 years of complex fraud investigation experience, including international investment fraud conspiracies and sophisticated market manipulation matters.
Asset Tracing and Recovery Support
We trace and document the movement of misappropriated funds to support civil recovery actions, asset seizures, and forfeiture proceedings.
Litigation-Ready Reporting
We prepare detailed reports suitable for legal proceedings, regulatory submission, and insurance claims, supporting litigation teams, management, boards of directors, and law enforcement.
Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations — matters we are engaged for
The numbers reconcile and the transactions do not
Statements balance because the entries were constructed to balance. Testing the underlying transactions against external records is what surfaces the difference.
Loss has to be quantified for a claim or a policy
An insurer, a court or a board needs a figure that survives challenge. Building it from documented transactions rather than estimates is what makes it defensible.
A scheme is concealed inside ordinary activity
Fraudulent entries are sized and timed to look routine. Analytics across the full ledger, rather than sampling, is what makes the pattern visible.
The accounting expert will face a Daubert challenge
Attacks on financial opinions usually target assumptions rather than arithmetic. Stating each assumption, and what it rests on, is what removes the opening.
Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations — frequently asked questions
What types of financial fraud do you investigate?
We investigate fraudulent financial reporting, embezzlement, accounting manipulation, fictitious vendor and invoice schemes, investment fraud, and market manipulation, among other financial crimes.
How do you identify fraud within financial records?
We examine journal entries, account transactions, bank reconciliations, vendor payment records, and supporting documentation, and apply advanced data analytics to identify statistical anomalies and suspicious transaction patterns.
Are your reports suitable for use in legal and regulatory proceedings?
Yes. We document the methodology of the fraud scheme and calculate fraud exposure in detailed reports prepared for litigation, regulatory submission, and insurance claims.
Who conducts your fraud investigations?
Our team includes forensic accountants, auditors, and former federal law enforcement professionals with more than 21 years of complex fraud investigation experience.
Can you help recover misappropriated funds?
We reconstruct the flow of misappropriated funds and support civil recovery actions, asset seizures, and forfeiture proceedings, and our findings can support referral to law enforcement.
Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations — questions, terms and comparisons
Investigations experts who testify to this work
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Jeremy Desor
Senior Consultant
Complex Financial Crime · Securities Fraud Investigation · Money Laundering & Asset Tracing
George Pierce
Expert Consultant
Regulatory Compliance · Internal Investigations
Our experts serve as court-appointed special masters, forensic neutrals, and arbitrators — 40 appointments are listed by matter and citation.
Forensic Accounting & Fraud Investigations case results
Energy / Oil & Gas Developer
Forensic FCPA Investigation for an International Energy Developer
Media & Entertainment
Exposing a Royalty-Pipeline Licensing Fraud for a Global Media Company
National Retail / E-Commerce
Trade-Secret Exfiltration Forensics Behind a National Retailer's Emergency Injunction