Forensic

At Grant Thornton we help dynamic mid-market businesses achieve their objectives by identifying and implementing an appropriate counter-fraud strategy, embedding zero-tolerance policies, assurance and monitoring solutions. But, if problems arise, we are experienced in undertaking robust investigations with the support of cutting edge digital forensic technology.

We conduct investigations involving suspected fraud, bribery, corruption and money laundering. We also provide fraud risk management services to help clients understand their exposure to the risk of financial crime.

Specific investigations in large, complex and multi-jurisdictional missions covering fraud and asset dissipation, bribery and corruption, money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, competition and corporate fiduciary law violations, modern slavery and employee issues, accounting and taxes anomalies, regulatory violations, contract reviews and right to audit, embezzlement and acute decline in investment or value.

Global trade heightens exposure to financial crime and the risk of value dissipation. Understanding your business partners and identifying who may cause or who has caused you harm, is vital to all organizations. At Grant Thornton we provide global intelligence-led services informing your assessment of risk and of the parties that you do business with, thereby limiting your exposure to harm:

• Adverse party intelligence: If financial crime or other wrongdoing is suspected, organizations need to carry out in-depth investigations into the parties involved to understand and resolve the problem. We can produce comprehensive adverse party intelligence reports which enable organizations to understand the parties involved, previously unknown connections and financial interests.
• Asset tracing investigation: One of the most challenging aspects of recovering losses from fraud is locating misappropriated assets that have been spread worldwide. Our experienced investigators trace and recover lost assets in support of freezing orders and help you proactively manage civil and criminal recovery actions (inside and outside of an insolvency process). 
• Social media profile review: We can review your social media profile against branding standards and monitor activity for particular concerns. We help our clients devise social media policies that are aligned to broader marketing strategies, which are fully integrated into ongoing due diligence programmes.
• Online brand review: We can help you confront any confusion about how your brand is perceived online, from a stakeholder’s perspective. We carry out an assessment which pinpoints exactly where the brand may be being misused, abused or diluted in value.

Our corporate intelligence reports deal with five major objectives: red flag identification, third party validation, enhanced integrity due diligence (IDD), adverse party intelligence, and asset tracing investigation.

We have a full suite of digital forensics and data acquisition services in disputes, fraud and regulatory investigations. Our capabilities include recovering and protecting data to establish a factual basis for investigations.

Initial scope of the data environment to identify information repositories and first case evaluations. Conservation and collection of data. Data processing through refinement, selection and transfer of the selected population for review and sharing. Review and analysis using eDiscovery techniques, data analysis and machine learning. Interrogation and presentation of the results through visualization tools.

Expert witness services, including acting as party-appointed experts in support of claimants and defendants, appointment as joint individual experts, as court-appointed experts (including arbitration), and as determining experts in different jurisdictions under various procedural rules.

Advice on civil and criminal matters involving contract breaches, partnership disputes, auditor negligence, shareholder disputes and company valuations, disputes for corporates, the public sector and individuals. We act in all forms of dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Technical and practical considerations for the investigation of alleged irregularities and bad accounting practices. Use of tax, actuarial, pension, valuation and internal audit knowledge. Provision of expert evidence.

We support our clients prepare themselves against cybersecurity threats, ensure on-going protection, help them respond rapidly and forensically in the event of a security or data breach, and drive change to improve their cybersecurity capability.

We work with the best specialized cybersecurity laboratories to respond to cyber incidents by collecting data logs and obtaining forensic images of affected systems, apply mitigation strategies and recovery protocols, report on the root cause of the incident and provide lessons learned and recommendations.

Compliance and risk assessment, advising on the design, implementation and evaluation of compliance programs and systems. Regulatory reviews, supporting reporting to relevant regulators or acting on their behalf. Large-scale remediation programs, including transaction testing and "Know Your Customer" projects.

Many forms of fraud can be detected proactively using targeted data analytics software. As well as identifying potential fraud, forensic data analytics can be used to ensure conformity with policies and procedures targeted at risk areas such as journals and other manual accounting entries, payment thresholds, transaction volumes and to carry out other forms of risk orientated analysis.

We provide data analysis through solutions that assist decision-making in forensic matters.

We support our clients, both insurers and insured parties, resolve insurance claims, including business interruption, subrogated claims, product recall, personal injury, fraudulent claims and claims’ reviews.

We help our clients recover a wide range of losses through their insurance, including losses incurred as a result of fraud. We review cover to advise clients seeking to recover losses from their insurer, produce evidential packages in a form loss adjusters expect to see and support the negotiation process.