Fraud, financial irregularities, employee and commercial disputes are some of the most complex and challenging issues facing business today. They can result in major financial damage, as well as serious reputational and regulatory risks.
Kroll has more than thirty years experience assisting businesses, financial institutions and major non-profit organizations:
- Gathering evidence in major litigation and commercial disputes
- Investigating internal fraud, violations of law, regulations, and company policies
- Locating concealed assets
- Investigating the theft of intellectual property
Kroll's unique blend of services allows us to provide you with expert advice and comprehensive support at every stage of the process from investigation to recovery, training and prevention. These can be tailored to meet your specific objectives.
Asset Searches
Kroll's reputation for asset tracing is unparalleled. Kroll has been retained in numerous multi-billion dollar asset search assignments. Included among these cases were the investigations of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (for the U.S. House of Representatives), former Haitian President Jean Claude Duvalier (for the Republic of Haiti) and Saddam Hussein (for the Kingdom of Kuwait). Kroll has achieved international success in areas such as asset tracing, the unraveling of complex offshore structures and the piercing of corporate veils.
Computer Forensics
Kroll's computer forensics services are used to recover data a wrongdoer sought to erase or delete from a computer’s hard drive and server, retrieve key data buried in case files and memoranda and organize data contained in thousands of disparate electronic sources.
Corporate Investigations
Working closely with a company’s board of directors, management and legal counsel, Kroll independently investigates allegations of civil and criminal fraud, accounting irregularities, intellectual property theft, foreign corrupt practices, embezzlement, electronic crimes, information leaks, undisclosed and related-party transactions, vendor fraud, kickbacks and other conduct.
Forensic Accounting
Kroll's experienced forensic accountants can help unravel the true financial state of the business, as well as identifying how its accounting systems may have been manipulated to cover up any wrongdoing. The team will also work to quickly ascertain the value of funds that the organisation may have lost.
Hostile Takeovers/Proxy Contests
Kroll has played a central role in successfully executing and thwarting high-profile takeover bids. Be it a proxy contest or tender offer, our strategy is simple: Information makes the difference between winning and losing.
Accordingly, Kroll works closely with clients to gather intelligence about the opposition’s strategies, intentions, vulnerabilities and tactics. We can support a bid or defense by developing facts and evidence that can be put to use in negotiations and the litigation that customarily accompanies a corporate contest. Our goal is to obtain information that supports the legal and public relations strategies of our client.
Investigative Due Diligence
We draw on a wide range of information to generate critical deal-related intelligence for our clients. These include public sources; people familiar with the sector or business in question (business associates, employees, suppliers, customers, etc.); and the worldwide network of sources in every industry that Kroll has developed over the past 30 years. Depending on the specifics, we may investigate the following:
- Management style and ethics of key executives
- Unjustified personal and business reputations
- Litigation involving the company
- Unrealistic projections
- Overstated assets and revenues
- Environmental liabilities
- Hidden ownership issues
- Misrepresentation and non-disclosure of material facts
Fraud Prevention and Detection
Working with your internal teams, we review your operations and identify weaknesses through which fraud or other forms of avoidable loss and compliance breaches could occur. We use software to find database transactions that could be symptomatic of problems or missed opportunities. We evaluate your controls, where necessary making cost-efficient recommendations. We help you to investigate and recover losses and mentor your internal teams so that improvements are maintained. In many cases the recoveries we identify cover our costs by a factor of ten.
