Financial Advisory Services
Organizations confronted with complex financial difficulties, those about to engage in merges or acquisitions and those expanding to other markets often require special expertise to better uncover evidentiary matters, find assets, develop claims, value and restructure their business.
Kroll delves 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.
Our financial and restructuring services, which are described below include forensic financial investigations, valuation services and corporate advisory services.
Forensic Financial Investigations
Kroll can make initial exposure assessments, identify financial issues, assist with pleadings and discovery issues, complete damages assessments, critique other experts’ reports and appear as an expert witness in courts throughout Latin America and all around the world. Kroll provides credible and verifiable information that will stand up to the toughest scrutiny.Valuation Services
Asset and business valuations can affect every aspect of your business.Whether you are merging or selling a company or division, allocating a purchase price, testing for goodwill impairment for reporting purposes, entering a licensing arrangement, pursuing or defending litigation or addressing taxation concerns, Kroll’s multi-disciplined team of valuators should be a key part of your strategy.
We regularly provide valuation services in complex matters such as:
Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services
For more than 20 years, companies and their creditors have sought out Kroll specialists to lead restructuring initiatives across a wide range of industries, including notable public-record engagements such as Enron, Laidlaw, Federal-Mogul, Federated Department Stores, Polaroid, Global Crossing and KPN Qwest.Whether a business faces imminent failure or serious cash-flow, operational or financial problems, Kroll forensic accounting, litigation consultants and financial due diligence advisors can help. From improving profitability to managing insolvency, our team of specialists provides a comprehensive range of services that deliver creative solutions to complex situations.
Forensic Accounting
Kroll offers forensic accounting services in Latin America, frequently in tandem with its investigative or corporate advisory services.Through the combined experience of forensic accountants and commercial crime specialists, we offer forensic financial and investigative services and can respond immediately, discreetly and comprehensively to civil and criminal wrongdoing.
Kroll's professionals include forensic accountants, business valuators, attorneys, financial analysts, former law enforcement officials, and information technology consultants. They apply financial, investigative, and technological expertise to provide clients with independent, objective advice and expert testimony.Kroll's forensic accountants identify and analyze relevant business records, reconstruct books and records and interview parties to determine if fraud has occurred and to quantify its financial impact. Our services encompass, but are not limited to civil fraud investigations and litigation, procurement fraud investigations, asset tracing and recovery, employee fraud and theft investigations, management fraud and theft investigations, criminal fraud investigations, criminal defense, systems consulting, security and internal control reviews, training on fraud awareness, and prevention and related topics.
Kroll also assists with inquiries or reviews initiated by regulators, law enforcement, boards of directors, audit committees and special board committees.Litigation Consulting
When parties are embroiled in complex commercial litigation, Kroll's forensic accountants and litigation consultants investigate, assess and quantify economic damages. They examine all the facts to deliver objective and supported expert reports and assist with all aspects of litigation – initial assessments, pleadings and discoveries, critiquing other experts' reports, addressing liability issues and testifying as expert witnesses. Kroll assists law firms and corporate clients in engagements involving breach of contract, misrepresentation, securities litigation, intellectual property disputes, and construction and product liability claims.We are able to provide litigation support to in-house and external counsel in matters involving corporate interests. Litigation support is available from every Kroll office, as we have experienced research staffs that carefully comb through public and court records, and conduct investigations of companies, principals and persons that are involved in any litigation event. The information obtained is reviewed for any additional leads, summarized and provided to our clients on an ongoing basis. As required and in close coordination with legal counsel, we can conduct interviews, support depositions and locate witnesses.
Within Kroll we have the on-staff expertise to determine losses, conduct valuations, and develop the complex financial information that may be required in some litigation matters. Our professionals are also available to testify, often as expert witnesses, and we can identify expert witnesses as needed.
Financial Due Diligence
Kroll's forensic accountants and litigation consultants are frequently retained by investor groups in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution arrangements and other investments to assist in the due diligence process. They apply their forensic accounting and business acumen to the review of financial statements, tax returns, major contracts, and other relevant documents. In addition, they interview key personnel. They look for unrealistic projections; overstated assets and revenues; unrecorded or understated expenses and liabilities, liens and judgments; and misrepresentation and non-disclosure of material facts. Kroll's financial due diligence services often work in conjunction with investigative due diligence services, which include assessing the target's reputation, management style, undisclosed business relationships or litigation, and other factors that indicate risk.
Asset Searches
When financial crimes are committed, the stolen assets must be tracked down and returned to their rightful owners. In some cases, such criminal activity may have occurred for years, allowing offenders to amass sizable fortunes and, in some cases, secure them in secret bank accounts around the world. Over the past 30 years, Kroll has become the world’s foremost expert in tracking down assets stolen by individuals and foreign governments. Kroll has vast experience following complex money trails as well as a complete understanding of worldwide financial reporting methods, global banking practices, international law, technology transfer systems and financial deception techniques.Kroll is perhaps best known for locating assets misappropriated by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos of The Philippines, Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, and other deposed dictators and their regimes. To learn more about the work we have done, visit our notable cases section.
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