Forensic Risk Alliance
Since the 2008 financial collapse, banking has become a highly regulated environment with each bank often requiring their own unique compliance structure. Similarly, Life Sciences has also become a highly regulated environment with the two industries sharing a lot of […]
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FRA Founding Partner, Toby Duthie and FRA Principal, Derek Patterson, are recognized as Thought Leaders in EMEA Who’s Who Legal Investigations – Forensic Accountants 2018. The Thought Leaders are those individuals who received the highest number of nominations from peers, […]
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FRA Partners, Emma Hodges and Yousr Khalil, are one of only 34 international experts featured in the Future Leader category in Who’s Who Legal Investigations – Forensic Accountants 2018 publication. The Future Leaders category identifies the leading individuals under the […]
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This year six of FRA’s leadership are featured in the prestigious Who’s Who Legal Investigations – Consulting Experts – Investigations – Forensic Accountants 2018. Since 1996 Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business […]
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December 2005
At the end of 2005 and during 2006, FRA was retained by the US counsel to a major European engineering company in connection with defending a US securities class action. FRA’s eDiscovery involvement was to collect, process, and host email and other company data for review by the legal team in a manner compliant with French data protection laws and the French Blocking Statute. FRA's expertise in data protection, cultural sensitivity, and IT meant that we were able to recover potentially responsive data from a division that had been sold, including reconstituting critical data from archaic back-up tapes. Supporting the client with forensic accounting, FRA reviewed the revenue recognition on contracts and the loss occasioned on them, focusing in particular on asset-based financing structures, collateral arrangements, and net exposure to investors. FRA produced reports to the legal team and assisted at the deposition of witnesses. The case was settled in 2010 with the damages, initially claimed in the billions, cut by 95%.
Philip Gore-Randall joined FRA in 2017 as its first Non-Executive Chairman. He has extensive experience at a senior level in large private and publicly-held international organizations. Philip has a portfolio of non-executive roles, which currently include Chairman of three international […]
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